Feb 2025 – May 2025 · 3 mos · Jaipur, Rajasthan, India · Remote

• In touch with few family office funds advising them on setting up exposure to commodity futures markets (across ICE, CME, Euronext, and Bursa), set up their quantitative research/tools stack, to build risk management tools, and manage data requirements.

Jan 2021 – Feb 2025 · 4 yrs 1 mo · Jaipur, Rajasthan, India · On-site

• Led the end-to-end design and development of real-time analytics systems to process and visualize trading signals, risk metrics, and market data for commodities and energy futures.
• Designed and deployed a market timing platform combining momentum and volatility signals, used daily for execution decisions across 6+ asset classes.
• Built scalable dashboards, monitoring, and alerting systems for live volatility, liquidity risk, and signal monitoring.
• Designed and deployed production-ready statistical models and signal engines with robust data pipelines for reliable intraday and historical data ingestion, transformation, and storage.
• Built a low-latency market scanning system to detect trade signals across 8 asset classes, 100s of instruments, and diverse data sources in real time.
• Stack: Python, Pandas, Plotly, Grafana, InfluxDB, Cron, Redis, FastAPI, Flask

Jan 2020 – Dec 2024 · 4 yrs 11 mos · India · Remote

• Taught Python for Finance - specifically for building a backtesting and automated trading pipeline
• Trained nearly 700 students across India over 4 years, and across several batches.
• Primary focus on backtesting Index and Equity Futures and Options for Indian Market

Jul 2017 – Dec 2020 · 3 yrs 5 mos · India · Hybrid

• Designed and built a low-latency, high-availability automated execution platform integrating Interactive Brokers and Zerodha APIs to deploy systematic strategies in real time for HNI clients.
• Developed a custom backtesting and benchmarking engine that handled multiple portfolio strategies, scaling to ~$50M AUA across various asset classes.
• Built robust data ingestion and transformation pipelines using RabbitMQ, Redis, and SQLite, enabling real-time processing and persistence of live market data.
• Created cloud-native infrastructure for model execution and monitoring using Amazon EC2, ensuring 99.9% uptime with scalable deployment for the strategies.
• Collaborated with family offices and advisors to deploy and monitor systematic equity strategies with monthly and weekly rebalancing windows.
• Stack: Python, Pandas, Kafka, Redis, SQLite, Selenium, Amazon EC2, Flask

Jan 2017 – Jul 2017 · 6 mos · Chennai Area, India

• Worked on a major modification of a REST API to incorporate schema changes to the overall org DB.
• Saved over $5mn per annum in seller-risk losses for PayPal & eBay by implementing an account based restriction feature.
• Assisted Global Operations & Services in creation of their admin platform.
• Performed a major overhaul to the email pipeline migrating holds emails from a legacy stack to an updated internal content stack.
• Implemented the expansion of particular funds-holds types across all platforms.
• Collaborated with client teams across PayPal orgs and helped them improve the performance of their APIs and also in their tech stack migrations.

Jul 2015 – Dec 2016 · 1 yr 5 mos · Chennai Area, India

• Worked with the Risk Fraud Restriction Product team in migrating their core product from the legacy tech stack to a more recent Java web services based tech stack utilising an internal framework and tools.
• Worked with the Risk Funds Availability team in improving and optimizing the performance of their legacy C++ APIs and in migrating the legacy APIs to Java based tech stack.
• Worked in collaboration with the Marketplaces team in helping migrate their shipping functionality to a newer tech stack.
• Helped remove redundancies, deprecate legacy stack by over 40%, fulfilling an SLA requirement by over 99,5%, while also fulfilling business requirements.

Jan 2015 – Jun 2015 · 5 mos · Chennai Area, India

• Developed a querying and reporting system for Technical Account Managers, automating the business
• processes involving the reports that were being done manually by the TAMs.
• Reduced lead time by over 90% in the reporting process.
• Implemented a scheduled reporting system that will automatically run on the beginning of every month using
• the merchant data to create performance and TPV oriented reports for the managers.
• Technologies: Bootstrap, HTML5, CSS3, JS, JQuery, Python on Django, Teradata.

May 2015 – Apr 2016 · 11 mos · Chennai

• Highterate (http://www.highterate.com/) is a Media/News/Publishing website that focuses on showing people what's right with the world.
• As the founder of Highterate and the sole person working on it right now, my responsibilities include:
• Designing the site and the site content in an overall manner.
• Website management (includes wordpress dashboard management, plugin management, etc.)
• Content discovery & research.
• Content Writing.
• Social media marketing.
• Web & Graphic design (includes poster design, promotion designs, etc.)
• A/B testing of different features added to the site on a regular basis.
• A/B testing of site content and visitor behavior.
• Monitoring the analytics parameters of the site, setting parametrical goals and overseeing the changes required to accomplish the same.