Saksham Sharma

Director of Engineering

New York, New York, United States8 yrs 8 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in low latency trading system design.
Significant contributions to Kubernetes security features.
Published research on mathematical expression optimization.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech expert with strong capabilities in quantitative research and high-performance systems.

Contact

sakshams@iitk.ac.in saksham0808@gmail.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Quantitative ResearchHigh Performance Trading SystemsKubernetesSecurity HardeningScalaMathematical Expression OptimizationFull Stack DevelopmentWeb Applications

Other Skills

AlgorithmsAngularAngular2Arch LinuxCC++CSSCryptographyCyber-securityElasticSearchEncryptionGenetic AlgorithmsGentoo LinuxGitGithub

About

Design and implement low latency and high-throughput trading and research systems for Limestone trading team's global strategies. My work covers all parts of trading, from systems design and development, quant research, modeling, all the way to deployment of the strategies. I am skilled in a wide variety of computer science subdomains, and work extensively in C++ and Python. I am also a member of WG21 - the ISO C++ standardization committee, and the Boost foundation. Talk to me about scaling ML research systems, or developing low latency C++ trading systems. Previous life: Programming Languages research, Functional Programming, Cloud and Security. Homepage: https://sakshamsharma.com Github: https://github.com/sakshamsharma Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=M1Nz-qsAAAAJ&hl=en

Experience

Tower research capital

Director, Quantitative Research Technology

Jul 2018 – Present · 7 yrs 8 mos · New York City Metropolitan Area · On-site

Design and implement high performance trading and research systems for Limestone trading team's strategies.
Limestone is Tower's largest trading team, and the software I work on runs the core of a massive number of unique and varied quantitative trading strategies every day globally.

C++PythonQuantitative ResearchHigh Performance Trading Systems

Google

Software Engineering Intern

May 2017 – Jul 2017 · 2 mos · Greater Seattle Area

Worked on Kubernetes, Google Cloud’s open source Docker container orchestration platform, to encrypt resources in cluster database at rest, a feature requested by industry for security hardening.
Implemented envelope encryption using Key-Encryption-Keys and Data-Encryption-Keys to allow using remote cloud-based Key Management Services.
Designed a method for allowing key rotations in a distributed system with a shared database.
Feature released as alpha in v1.7, integration with Google’s Key Management System partially released in v1.8.
Collaborated with engineers across companies for designing the feature.

KubernetesGoogle CloudEncryptionSecurity Hardening

Max planck institute for software systems

Research Fellow

May 2016 – Jul 2016 · 2 mos · Saarland

Automated accuracy improvement of Floating-point expressions
Designed, developed and evaluated a Scala tool to rewrite mathematical expressions to increase accuracy using a genetic algorithm.
Obtained successful results, improving expression errors by ~50%, useful for scientific and embedded applications.
Part of a larger project to improve numerical programs on various counts. Published in the 2018 ACM/IEEE 9th International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems (ICCPS).

ScalaGenetic AlgorithmsMathematical Expression Optimization

Indian institute of technology, kanpur

Full Stack Developer

May 2015 – Apr 2016 · 11 mos · IIT Kanpur

Adjudged as one of the best interns as a freshman.
Implemented various features in a large scale polyglot web application with an extensive technology stack, in a team setup.
Continued working part time alongside my studies, as a full-stack developer; managing the search component in Node.js, Scala, ElasticSearch, Angular, TypeScript, among others.
Apart from various languages, work with various tools, including Facebook's Phabricator, Kubernetes, Docker.

Node.jsScalaElasticSearchAngularTypeScriptFull Stack Development+1