Abhishek Kumar

Software Engineer

London, England, United Kingdom5 yrs 4 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Graduated top of class from IIT Kanpur.
Developed low latency tools improving market data capture.
Created CI/CD framework reducing production failure rates.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech-focused Software Engineer with expertise in systems development and data processing.

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Skills

Core Skills

C++Infrastructure DevelopmentData ProcessingPipeline DevelopmentData ManagementSystem DesignCryptographyResearch

Other Skills

AlgorithmsApache AirflowApplied Machine LearningCICD frameworkComputer NetworksComputer ScienceContinuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)Cryptographic ProtocolsData MigrationData StructuresDatabaseDatabasesDeep LearningDistributed SystemsDocker Products

About

I work in the Trading Industry. My interests lie broadly in the System's Domain of Computer Science. I've had exposure to a variety of systems-related projects and coursework (Distributed Systems, Computer Networks, Computer Architecture, Operating Systems, Databases). I did my bachelor's in Computer Science & Engineering from IIT Kanpur and graduated with Department Rank 1 in 2019. I graduated with a Master's degree in Computer Science in December 2022 from Carnegie Mellon University.

Experience

5 yrs 4 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 8 mos

Average Tenure

3 yrs 4 mos

Current Experience

Jump trading

3 roles

Software Engineer

Jan 2026 – Present · 4 mos

Software Engineer Intern

Jun 2023 – Aug 2023 · 2 mos

Software Engineer

Jan 2023 – Jan 2026 · 3 yrs

Tower research capital

2 roles

Software Engineer II

Promoted

Jan 2021 – Aug 2021 · 7 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

I was a part of Tower's Markets Division.
Responsible for developing & maintaining the Latency & Packet Capture Infrastructure
Developed a low latency C++ tool to capture market data packets at rates as high as 10G
Reduced data availability delay by 90%, disk usage by 45%, & packet loss by 95%
Created a CICD framework to reduce production failure rate by 50% & bolstered the stability
Created a C++ tool to monitor & identify critical issues in User-space TCP (UTCP) used in Tower

C++Latency & Packet Capture InfrastructureCICD frameworkInfrastructure Development

Software Engineer I

Jul 2019 – Dec 2020 · 1 yr 5 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

Pocket fm

Software Engineering Intern

May 2019 – Jun 2019 · 1 mo · Bengaluru Area, India

Developed an offline data processing pipeline to handle user events data
Wrote several hive jobs that run on EMR cluster to analyze the data
Developed several utilities around Apache Airflow to manage dependencies between jobs

Goldman sachs

Summer Analyst

May 2018 – Jul 2018 · 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Designed a new data-store for stress scenarios and facilitated querying through a Web-based User Interface
Developed library functions to migrate data from SecDB to MongoDB and vice-versa
Reduced humongous human effort to a few clicks, Improved scalability

Indian institute of science (iisc)

Summer Intern

May 2017 – Jul 2017 · 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Worked on cryptographic protocols for Secure Multi-Party Computation
Analyzed batched Oblivious Pseudo-Random Function evaluation and its application to Private Set Intersection
Rediscovered a protocol for Private Set Intersection using Oblivious Pseudo-Random Functions