Pankaj Prateek Kewalramani

CTO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India11 yrs 7 mos experience

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Key Highlights

CTO with expertise in low-latency development.
Led teams in high-stakes trading environments.
Organized major coding competitions at IIT Kanpur.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech expert with a strong focus on quantitative research and low-latency systems.

Contact

pankaj200292@gmail.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Low-latency DevelopmentQuantitative ResearchMentoringEvent OrganizationMachine LearningProblem Setting

Other Skills

Algorithm DesignAlgorithmsArtificial IntelligenceCC++Competitive ProgrammingComputer ScienceData StructuresDiscrete MathematicsHTMLJavaLinuxMatlabProgrammingPython

About

Pankaj, being the CTO of Quantbox, cruises through the tasks of hiring, grooming and leading the tech talent of the firm. In doing so, he deploys his vast experience in the low-latency development stack. Prior to that, he was a part of the infrastructure team at AlphaGrep, where he led low-latency development in various exchanges including CME, India, Korea. Pankaj did his Bachelors-Masters in Technology focused in Computer Science and Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.

Experience

11 yrs 7 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 10 mos

Average Tenure

5 yrs 8 mos

Current Experience

Quantbox research

CTO

Oct 2020 – Present · 5 yrs 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Quantbox is a technology-driven Proprietary trading firm that specializes in systematic alpha research and electronic market-making on various exchanges. We trade across a multitude of asset classes and trading venues with significant market share.
Currently recruiting for the following roles:
Software Developer (HFT)
Quantitative Researcher / Quant Trader (Bangalore and Singapore)

low-latency developmentsystematic alpha researchelectronic market-makingquantitative research

Alphagrep securities

5 roles

Vice President - Quantitative Research & Trading

Promoted

Jul 2019 – Aug 2020 · 1 yr 1 mo

Senior Associate - Trading Systems

Promoted

Jul 2018 – Jun 2019 · 11 mos

Associate

Promoted

Jul 2017 – Jun 2018 · 11 mos

Senior Analyst

Promoted

Jul 2016 – Jun 2017 · 11 mos

Analyst

Aug 2015 – Jun 2016 · 10 mos

Inria

Research Intern

May 2013 – Jul 2013 · 2 mos · Paris

Worked with Dr. Francesco Zappa Nardelli, researcher with the team Parkas, housed at INRIA Paris-Rocquencourt office.

Indian institute of technology, kanpur

3 roles

Coordinator, ACA

Jul 2012 – Jun 2013 · 11 mos

ACA (Association of Computing Activities) is the student body of CSE department, IIT Kanpur.
Mentored 3 first year students on their assigned projects given through ACA in 2012-13 to complete a project on implementation of the game Tron using Machine Learning
Organising Yahoo! Hack U - a 24 hour coding marathon at IIT-K for the last 2 years in coordination with Yahoo. Received token of appreciation from Yahoo! on organising such a big event.
Organized Code.Fun.Do, a 24-hour Windows App Development contest by Microsoft in 2013 and 2014.
Provided semester long projects in CS field to over 50 first year students through ACA in 2012-13.
Deployed an online judge (http://www2.cse.iitk.ac.in:81/newonj/problem.php) for practice of programming assignments for students for last 4 semesters with more than 750 registrants. Students from other institutes (IITB, IITR, IIITH and many more) also registered and participating.
Established an online judge for algorithmic contests for 24 hour practice for ACM-ICPC and weekend contests
Mentored a lecture series and training camp for ACM-ICPC for IITK students in 2012 with more than 150 students enrolled.
Organised Freshers party for the incoming batch and Farewell for the graduating batch

mentoringevent organizationonline judge deployment

Coordinator, IOPC, Techkriti '13

Mar 2012 – Apr 2013 · 1 yr 1 mo

IOPC (International Online Programming Contest) (Website: http://www.codechef.com/IOPC2013 ) is organized as a part of Techkriti, the technical festival of IIT Kanpur. The responsibilities of the coordinator include setting the problems for the contest in addition to fair conduction of the event.
Responsibilities:
Problem Setter and Tester for IOPC.
Setup the problems for IOPC, the annual 24 hr long programming contest during Techkriti
Worked with a team of 5 members on creating and testing the problems for the 24 hr long programming contest
Achieved a 100% increase in the number of teams that participated. Total number of teams being 793.

problem settingevent organization

Coordinator, Software Corner, Techkriti '13

Mar 2012 – Apr 2013 · 1 yr 1 mo

Software Corner is a set of events based on programming and software development. This is organized as a part of Techkriti, the technical festival of IIT Kanpur.
Responsibilities:
Software Corner represents all the software related competitions during Techkriti. We conducted 5 such events.
Organized the first International High Performance Computing contest, which was hosted on PARAM Yuva supercomputer in collaboration with Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC).
Problem setter for IHPC, Techkriti 2013, Asias first High Performance Computing programming competition
Revamped Battlecity by taking the contest Online(12x participation) and getting International contestants.
Battlecity (an AI design challenge), took the contest online for the first time, got a 12x raise in the number of teams(around 600) participating in the contest.
Chaos (an Unknown language programming contest), took the contest to international level and successfully managed to conduct the contests on servers from CSE department of IITK for the first time.
Also conducted two onsite events Hack-a-thon and Instant (Puzzle solving and fast coding competition)
Elevated three contests to international level for the first time.

event organizationproblem setting