Jan 2024 – Oct 2025 · 1 yr 9 mos · United Arab Emirates

• Executed own multi-asset trading strategies (crypto spot/perps across DEX/CEX, US equities /
• options) while building and maintaining end-to-end trading infrastructure; implemented real-time risk
• monitoring, automated capital allocation systems, and position limit enforcement

Sep 2022 – Jan 2024 · 1 yr 4 mos · New York City Metropolitan Area

• Built and secured Upside's end-to-end Web3 infrastructure from scratch, including low-latency
• trading systems, on-chain/CEX wallet connectivity, and blockchain payments.
• Achieved zero security incidents through security-first SDLC integration and performance
• optimization
• Slashed smart contract deployment from 2h to 15min via optimized CI/CD pipelines; embedded
• security reviews into crypto infrastructure design process, delivering continuous performance
• and security improvements
• Led cross-functional technical decisions and system design across 15 engineers; negotiated
• vendor contracts saving $100K+/year while scaling DevOps culture and infrastructure tooling

Jun 2021 – Sep 2022 · 1 yr 3 mos · New York, New York, United States

• Automated cryptocurrency trading across 12+ exchanges at sub-50µs latency (millions daily
• volume); reduced trade execution time by 30% through optimized low-latency deployment
• strategies
• Built zero-breach encrypted key management system for billions in capital; migrated
• infrastructure from manual processes to Terraform automation (80% faster provisioning)
• Orchestrated 500+ production test environments with performance benchmarking, directly
• improving trading profitability and system reliability
• Founded and scaled DevOps function from zero to 3-person team; hired, trained, and mentored
• infrastructure engineers

Nov 2020 – May 2021 · 6 mos · United States

• Implemented Precision Time Protocol (PTP) on Solarflare hardware, achieving nanosecond-level
• time synchronization critical for exchange fairness and regulatory compliance
• Enhanced exchange infrastructure supporting $2B+ daily trading volume with 99.99% uptime;
• automated rolling releases via Jenkins/Ansible, reducing deployment errors by 90% and
• downtime by 75%
• Identified and resolved critical performance bottlenecks through system analysis, improving
• throughput by 25% and supporting increased transaction capacity

Aug 2019 – Nov 2020 · 1 yr 3 mos · Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

• Containerized cloud infrastructure on GCP. Migrated cloud infrastructure from GCP to Azure
• Kubernetes reducing operational costs by 45% while improving scalability. Built comprehensive
• CI/CD pipelines and monitoring systems from scratch
• Developed custom monitoring tools that proactively identified 85% of potential issues before user
• impact. Drove cloud vendor strategy, securing a $1M Azure deal and executing the transition
• from GCP to Azure on time and under budget.

Jun 2012 – Jul 2018 · 6 yrs 1 mo · Greater New York City Area

• Primarily responsible for Plan, build, deploy and support Production Linux server environment.
• Troubleshooting and resolving any technical issues including performance issues in seconds.
• Led Complex Change management projects and migrations considering risks.
• Supporting over 1500 Linux systems located globally. Hardware includes rack mount, blade chassis and standalone systems.
• Took on responsibility of evaluating existing process of server provisioning and streamlining it by auditing systems performance and automating tasks. (Ansible, Python, Bash).
• Work effectively with Trade support, Developers, DBAs, and Network engineers across 5 global locations to ensure and maintain day to day responsibilities to support Complex Trade Infrastructure.
• Worked with Storage Engineers and various vendors to setup reliable systems. (Storage layers below filesystems is not my expertise)
• Worked with compliance on projects and automation(Python) related to SOC
• Analyze real time performance and suggest application level changes that reduce average latency.

Sep 2011 – May 2012 · 8 mos · Charlotte Metro

• As a graduate research assistant, designed and implemented new services for the Cloud Infrastructure. Developed flexible code that can be used in administering Virtual Machines on the cloud.

Aug 2009 – Dec 2010 · 1 yr 4 mos

• Led teams to resolve complex technical challenges, manage Design, Development, Specifications, Installations and maintenance of the IT infrastructure.

May 2008 – Aug 2009 · 1 yr 3 mos · Greater Hyderabad Area

• Worked with the lead Architect in developing Synovel Collaboration suite by Integrating LDAP, AMANDA backup server, Postfix, Asterisk, Darwin, Squid proxy server. Used Python for development.