About
Product-minded Staff Engineer with 7+ years of expertise in designing and scaling high-performance distributed systems, data platforms, and institutional cryptocurrency and fintech products. Drives technical direction at FalconX, leading complex initiatives that significantly enhance revenue, optimize costs, and secure critical infrastructure for a leading digital asset prime brokerage.
Work
FalconX
|Staff Engineer
Bengaluru, India
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Summary
Led engineering for critical product lines, driving architecture and implementing initiatives for cloud cost savings and customer integrations at a leading institutional digital asset prime brokerage.
Highlights
Led engineering efforts for two key product lines: Direct Market Access (DMA), generating millions in monthly revenue from 90+ institutional customers, and Off Exchange Settlement (OXS), securing $200M+ AUM for 20+ institutional clients.
Drove product architecture and implemented strategic initiatives for cloud cost savings, including data archival and instance type migrations, reducing monthly cloud costs by over $5,000.
Delivered critical integrations with major custodians (Ceffu, Copper) and exchanges (Binance, Bybit), eliminating exchange counterparty risk and directly landing 10+ high-profile customers.
FalconX
|Senior Software Engineer
Bengaluru, India
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Summary
Architected and implemented scalable systems and features for institutional cryptocurrency trading, enhancing operational efficiency and risk management.
Highlights
Architected an Airflow-based internal onboarding pipeline for DMA customers, saving over 1,300+ engineering hours annually while improving auditability and user experience for ops teams.
Designed and implemented a Kubernetes-based job orchestration system, adept at handling over 10,000 concurrent pods at peak to support critical operations.
Successfully launched OXS v1 across backend, UI, product, and DevOps, establishing one of the industry's first solutions for off-exchange settlement.
Integrated multiple exchanges for DMA features, significantly driving up product adoption and revenue growth.
Developed an automated liquidation system for DMA, substantially improving overall DMA risk management capabilities.
Built a robust authorization module, utilized across the main web application APIs, enhancing security and access control.
Led multiple infrastructure upgrades and migrations, resulting in significant security improvements and cost savings.
Contributed to building a low-latency trading system, optimizing performance for high-frequency operations.
09 Solutions Inc.
|Software Engineer II
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Summary
Developed and optimized data processing platforms and scaled machine learning workflows as part of the data platform team.
Highlights
Built and optimized PySpark pipelines on a Spark-based distributed processing platform, enhancing data throughput and efficiency.
Scaled ML workflows and developed synthetic data generation modules, improving data availability and model training capabilities.
Designed a reusable parallel processing library, streamlining development and accelerating data processing tasks across the platform.
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
|Software Engineer
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Summary
Developed UIs and backend services for market stress and capital teams, improving API performance and job orchestration.
Highlights
Built UIs and robust backend services using Python, Typescript, React, Tornado, and Pandas for the market stress/capital team.
Developed a Single Page Application (SPA) job orchestrator, streamlining complex job scheduling and execution processes.
Designed and implemented efficient ETL jobs and REST APIs, improving API performance by 20% for critical financial applications.
Education
National Institute of Technology, Calicut
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B.Tech
Computer Science and Engineering
Skills
Programming Languages
Python, Go, Typescript, SQL.
Frameworks & Tools
React, Flask, FastAPI, Airflow, Spark.
Cloud & Infrastructure
AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, MySQL, Git.
Soft Skills
Cross-team collaboration, Mentorship, Product design.