Prateek V.

CEO

United Kingdom8 yrs 2 mos experience

AI EnabledAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

Expert in high throughput and low latency market data systems.
Proficient in modern programming languages including C++ and Python.
Led development of large-scale distributed database systems.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech Backend Engineer specializing in high-performance data management solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

Database ManagementC++Software DevelopmentSearch Engine DevelopmentData Processing

Other Skills

C++20Distributed DatabaseMarket Data ManagementC++17PythonTime Series DatabaseJavaScriptApache LuceneApache PigHadoopAlgorithmsMachine LearningArtificial IntelligenceGitMatlab

About

UK Visa Status: UK Citizen I am a Software Engineer specialising in storage and retrieval of Market Data with high throughput and low latency. I have a bachelors of technology in the field of computer science from Indian Institute of Technology - IIT Delhi . I am proficient in Modern C++/C, and Python. Would never hesitate to learn new technologies.

Experience

Undisclosed hedge fund

Quantitative Developer

Nov 2025 – Present · 4 mos · London Area, United Kingdom · On-site

Non compete

Non-Compete

Aug 2025 – Oct 2025 · 2 mos

Worldquant

2 roles

Lead Engineer

Promoted

Jan 2025 – Aug 2025 · 7 mos

Working on a completely distributed database system written in C++20, managing ~10 Petabytes of Market Data
Project Tech Lead of Query engine

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Senior Software Engineer

Oct 2022 – Jan 2025 · 2 yrs 3 mos

Man group

2 roles

Senior Software Engineer

Promoted

Jan 2022 – Sep 2022 · 8 mos

Worked on an in-house Time Series Database storage solution completely written in C++17 with a thin Python wrapper for client access. Uses S3 as the backend (can be easily plugged into something else) with the production environment equipped with our own automated DR solution and regular backups running in kubernetes (k8s)
Ingests live streaming tick-data as well

C++17PythonTime Series DatabaseDatabase ManagementC++

Technology Engineer

Dec 2019 – Dec 2021 · 2 yrs

Bloomberg lp

Software Engineer

Aug 2017 – Dec 2019 · 2 yrs 4 mos · London, United Kingdom

Foreign Exchange Trading Platform - Designing and implementing efficient, robust and scalable solutions to meet various clients requirements in modern C++, Python and JavaScript

C++PythonJavaScriptSoftware Development

Software Engineer Intern

May 2016 – Jul 2016 · 2 mos · Bangalore

Intern at Linkedin Search Team. Work done:
Worked on EzSearch Tool, an internal tool at LinkedIn Corp. which automates the process of creating search services over a given data set.
Analysed the working of Apache Lucene which is a high-performance, full-featured text search engine library.
Designed a model to approximate the structure of inverted and forward indices of Lucene with high accuracy.
Implemented a robust method to estimate the size of structure for any given data set.
Used Apache Pig over the Apache Hadoop framework to make the method scalable to large data sets.
Integrated the functionality into the existing pipeline and performed exhaustive tests.