Jun 2023 – May 2024 · 11 mos · Austin, Texas, United States · Hybrid

• Helped with hiring and onboarding new team members:
• Created a Lockfree queue assignment in C++ for new teammembers. Conducted several rounds of interviews for roles ranging from Intern to Senior software engineer.
• Provided the implementation for a bulk copy Deque datastructure. Used loop unrolling to automatically generate SIMD instructions. (C programming language)
• Working on a reference architecture for running high performance DPDK based networking application in a Kubernetes cluster using CNIs like Multus, Calico, SRIOV. Working on solving several typical distributed systems problems within in this cluster like High Availability, Auto Scaling and Observability.

Dec 2021 – May 2023 · 1 yr 5 mos · Remote

• Worked in the vMX team. Developing new features & bug fixes for the AWS EC2 firmware in C/C++.
• Fixed two critical bugs in our internal forks of gRPC & DirectFB to prevent crashing on exit.
• Helping build the next generation of MX routers based on DPDK & VPP that significantly improves the throughput.
• Working on the control plane side of things. Migrated several key services to the new system like watchdog timer, stats monitoring utility, config fetcher, CGI gateway that is used for serving local admin pages on our routers. Also made a department wide presentation about the challenges faced in this migration effort.

Jul 2020 – Dec 2021 · 1 yr 5 mos

• Worked as a full stack engineer in the RBLD team which is Bloomberg’s rule based trading function built on Storm.
• Spearheaded several key initiatives like retiring OrderId, RouteId, FillID and replacing them with a unified Entity ID. This helped us attain parity with the downstream systems, greatly simplified a few code paths, reduced the amount of things we cache in memory and helped us declutter the UI. Lead a team of two on this project.
• Implemented three new regions in the performance wheel function and dealt with the resulting performance issues. Created a Splunk dashboard for monitoring the performance. Worked with the product manager and the downstream team to ensure that our UI performance didn’t degrade with the addition of these new regions.
• Worked with another Senior engineer in the team to implement the much requested order modification feature. This involved making changes to the actual rule evaluation engine as well as the connecting systems. Co-ordinated with several stakeholders like QAs, UX team, product manager to safely roll this feature out.

Jun 2017 – Jul 2020 · 3 yrs 1 mo

• Working in the financial Indices team that was one of the teams responsible for onboarding Barclay's Fixed income indices.
• Built a preprocessing system using Apache Spark to ingest municipal indices Historical data.
• I helped build a generic three-stage distributed backfilling system that used Apache Kafka for communication.
• Built a multithreaded QC system that maintains a cache of the bond level attributes of 150k bonds over a 10 year period refreshed every night.
• Replaced a legacy database that was hit 100 million times a day running on Solaris, AIX machines with a modern SQL based database. Wrote a restful API in C/C++ for existing clients
• Helped onboard several new index families and data from index vendors

Sep 2016 – May 2017 · 8 mos · New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States

• Conducted recitations for two sections of CS-170 classes. It was an intro course covering Html, CSS, JS & Excel. Graded papers, helped students with their homework, etc.,

Jun 2016 – Aug 2016 · 2 mos · New York, New York

• Built a log ingesting system using Elastic Search, Kibana & Log Stash. Wrote a microservice in Scala using Sinatra that would process the log files and generate a report for the auditors.