Mar 2023 – Nov 2023 · 8 mos · New York City Metropolitan Area · Hybrid

• Tech stack: Scala, Smart contracts/blockchain, SPAs, Auth0, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Pulumi, CircleCI
• Worked on the Canton Network team building an open blockchain network using Scala that allows interoperability between multiple Canton
• blockchains
• Added a mechanism for leader node fault detection and leader election. Added React-based UI to manually trigger elections.
• Helped restructure and improve the CircleCI configuration to make tests more robust to transient issues
• Added a Pulumi+Kubernetes/Docker stack and client-facing documentation for deploying a validator node on Canton Network

Sep 2021 – Dec 2022 · 1 yr 3 mos

• Contributed to successful demo for a product that allows for instant fund transfer between banks bypassing the delay inherent in the Fedwire system.
• This consisted of a smart contracts backend on a permissioned blockchain network providing API access to multiple external clients. This was deployed using Docker containers via Kubernetes/Terraform.
• Took on tech leadership responsibilities to develop said system for a client - including requirements gathering, scope of work, technical specification and security analysis. Established best practices and conducted code reviews
• Worked with product management to develop and present ideas and development plans/timeline to senior leaders within the organization
• Personally developed crucial subsystems managing transfer and settlement lifecycles, and contributed to a robust CircleCI and Python-based scale testing setup
• Mentored five engineers with varying levels of experience to help them grow their skills and maximize productivity

Nov 2019 – Dec 2022 · 3 yrs 1 mo

• Made improvements to the smart contract language implementation and developer tooling components of the blockchain application platform which was the firm’s core product
• Improvements included better Python-based validation tools for contracts and contributions to a Typescript-based CLI tool that aids with the entire lifecycle of smart contract development including building test networks, creating identities on-chain and running tests
• Contributed to development of a successful demo and production deployment for a product that manages entitlements, restatements and communication between financial dataset vendors and consumers
• This involved a Node.js/Koa/smart contracts backend on a permissioned blockchain network with a React/Next.js frontend with Auth0 for authn/authz. This was deployed using Docker containers via Kubernetes/Terraform

Jan 2013 – Sep 2019 · 6 yrs 8 mos

• Tech stack: Python, Tornado server, Django, Modern JS, React, Redux, jQuery, CSS, Less/Sass, Webpack, SPAs, Gulp, Ruby, RSpec, Cucumber, Perl, MySQL, Mongodb, Redis, AWS (EC2, SQS, ELB etc), Docker
• Developed an online platform to provide free education, data and tools so anyone can develop quantitative finance trading strategies
• This consisted of a Python/Django backend tested using RSpec/Cucumber, and a React/Redux/Sass frontend built using Gulp/Webpack with MySQL/MongoDB for storage and Redis for caching - hosted on AWS using Docker containers.
• Developed efficient pipelines to track and display status and results of long-running jobs like strategy simulation and out-of-sample testing using AWS infrastructure
• Designed and implemented RESTful APIs to allow users to have programmatic interaction with the platform and for admins to manage it
• Led the UI/UX effort over multiple iterations of the interface - building a responsive interface with React and Redux
• Led the CI effort - adding the majority of unit and integration tests for frontend and backend code, advocating TDD, and integration with Gitlab
• Mentored several mid and senior level developers to establish best practices as the team expanded
• Millions of alpha simulations daily from users worldwide. Product covered in several major publications including Bloomberg and WSJ

Sep 2011 – Dec 2012 · 1 yr 3 mos

• Wrote data managers and developed algorithmic trading strategies for the US, Europe, Japan and other markets using technical analysis, fundamental data and news analytics
• Daily re-balancing long-short equity trading strategies
• Futures strategies (commodities, currencies, fixed income and equity)

May 2009 – Jul 2009 · 2 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

• Developed framework to test implementation of EAP protocol in Windows Server 2008 R2
• Discovered security issues; worked with design team to eliminate them from final product
• Framework adopted by Microsoft for future testing of network protocols in Windows

Jun 2008 – Jul 2008 · 1 mo · Gurgaon, India

• Bus Ticket Booking module
• Redesigned newly launched module to improve usability and performance
• Developed web service for MMT's clients to provide booking facility on their websites
• 200% increase in daily bookings in 2 months
• Web service was being used by 3 clients as of Sep '10

Apr 2008 – Mar 2009 · 11 mos · Gurgaon, India

• Marketing, business relations and analytics
• Created repository of restaurant menus, discounts, reviews; now serves 5 major cities
• Developed brand presence via social media marketing
• Suggested design changes based on web analytics
• Achieved 4000 visitors/week within 4 months of full-scale launch in NCR
• Made successful pitches for tieups (ads, discounts) to several restaurant chains