Career
Primary Tech Stack
Go, Python, PostgreSQL, Redis, Apache Parquet, JavaScript, React.js, Nuxt.js, AWS, GCP, OpenTelemetry.
Work Experience
True Beacon
- Led a high-ownership team of 6; set engineering principles, hired and mentored mid-senior engineers, reviewed architecture, code quality, owned service reliability, and optimised delivery across the full SDLC. Collaborated with stakeholders in investment research, finance, sales and compliance.
- Built the core Go price streaming service processing ~4,000 ticks/sec, reducing resource costs by 80%, supporting ~3x the load with added sub-millisecond multi-sink fanout, sharded stream and batch processing, backpressure handling and distributed metrics tracing. (Go, Redis, PostgreSQL, MQTT).
- Designed and deployed a scalable, highly available, rate-limited REST API broker service supporting 135k daily live requests (Go, Redis, OpenTelemetry, Signoz).
- Architected and scaled multi-broker trading infrastructure executing 10,000+ orders/day with risk alerting and a time series data lake ingesting 170M records/week. (Python, PostgreSQL, Prefect).
- Drove AWS cost optimization, steadily saving $2,500 USD monthly (~25% reduction).
- Operated as interim CISO; led VAPT, security hardening, SIEM (Wazuh) & VPN adoption (Pritunl, Netbird), and regulatory compliance (SEBI data residency) across cloud and enterprise infrastructure.
True Beacon
- Developed the core risk assessment platform with a small team, driving high-accuracy analytics for portfolio management; designed data pipelines handling 200k+ daily records with reconciliation. (Python, Go, Typescript, React.js, PostgreSQL, TimescaleDB, AWS, OpenTelemetry, Superset).
- Contributed to ETL pipelines for ingesting, aggregating and validating 5TB+ of stock market data, automating daily workflows, and improving data quality (AWS S3, ECS, Pandas, Polars, Parquet). Built a well-tested backtesting system on top of the data to optimise research velocity.
- Drove the cloud migration across 50+ VMs, 20+ buckets, and 15+ applications from GCP to AWS.
- Drove open-source adoption; led initiatives to self-host ERPNext, Listmonk, Umami, RustDesk, and many more, saving thousands of dollars annually on third-party tools.
- Redesigned, built, and maintained the company website as a sole developer, growing organic site traffic to 7,000+ visits/month and increasing conversions by 19.5% YoY.
- Led intern hiring, directly translated complex financial requirements into technical deliverables, and instituted regular enterprise security audits.
Maistering B.V.
- Refactored an unmaintainable major module having 13k+ lines down to 1.3k lines of modular code.
Freelancer
- Architected the core data pipeline for the MVP for a European AI start-up. Used Python, Parquet.
- Built a distributed job scheduler for on-demand 3D rendering for a global luxury perfume brand, running reliably in production for 3+ years. Used Python FastAPI, Celery, Redis.
- Designed, built and deployed 5 LAMP stack and 2 WordPress websites. Requirements gathering, project planning, client relations.