Forward Deployed Engineer

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I build AI-native, production-grade backend systems — trading infrastructure, real-time data at scale, on-chain and enterprise platforms. Currently SDE III at American Express; ex–founding engineer at Filament Finance, ex–Goldman Sachs and BlackRock.

// what that has looked like in production
10M+
events a day ingested in Rust across 20+ streams on ClickTrade
490M+
position rows queried in ClickHouse for trader analytics
20+
markets — commodity, crypto & forex — live on the Carry DEX
35,000+
farmers borrowing against produce on the live Whrrl platform
4
products I’ve helped ship and keep live in production today
6 yrs
building backend systems at Amex, Goldman Sachs & BlackRock
01 — EXPERTISE

What I’m good at

Trading & market infrastructure

I’ve built the parts that can’t go down: a perps matching engine with order books, TP/SL and a comb-pool model at Filament, and a decentralized perpetuals exchange across 20+ commodity, crypto and forex markets at Carry. Comfortable with order lifecycle, funding, liquidations and sub-second APIs.

Order booksPerpsFundingLiquidations

Real-time data at scale

Streaming pipelines that hold up under load: 10M+ events/day in Rust over NATS JetStream with exactly-once delivery and checkpoint recovery, landing in ClickHouse at 490M+ rows. I care about backpressure, replay and cost, not just throughput.

RustNATS JetStreamClickHouseExactly-once

Event-driven backend

My default architecture at Goldman Sachs, BlackRock and ZestMoney: Java / Spring Boot microservices on Kafka, event sourcing on Cassandra, big-data pipelines on Spark/Hadoop, and AWS-native async flows with SQS/SNS, Lambda and Step Functions.

JavaSpring BootKafkaEvent sourcing

On-chain engineering

Smart contracts that move real value: on-chain collateral & PnL at Filament, Solidity trading/vault/funding/oracle contracts with ERC-4626 vaults and Pyth at Carry, and a Quorum tokenization network for warehouse receipts at Whrrl.

SolidityERC-4626PythQuorum

Enterprise platform delivery

I ship things a business depends on: a dual-database DB2/PostgreSQL migration framework at Amex hitting 99.9% consistency, and a farmer-lending platform at Whrrl with SAP integration, video KYC, and a 50+ bank maker/checker loan workflow that I own end to end.

PostgreSQLSAPAWSMaker/checker

AI-native development

I ship faster by working with Claude Code, Cursor and Codex as part of my workflow — using agents and skills to move from spec to production. The judgement, architecture and review stay mine; the leverage is the point.

Claude CodeCursorCodexAgents & skills
02 — EXPERIENCE

Where I’ve built

SDE III · American Express
Jan 2025 — Present
Bengaluru

Architected an enterprise dual-database DB2/PostgreSQL framework with independent transaction boundaries and a 124-parameter transformation pipeline, plus production monitoring reaching a 99.9% data-consistency benchmark. Built a blockchain lending protocol for crypto assets at the AMEX hackathon.

Founding Engineer · Filament Finance
May 2024 — Jan 2025
Remote

Built a decentralized perpetual trading platform for BTC and SEI from the ground up — order book, comb-pool model and a Spring Boot / Kafka / Redis / MongoDB backend sustaining 60 orders/second, with on-chain collateral and PnL settlement.

SDE II, Associate · Goldman Sachs
Apr 2022 — Apr 2024
Bengaluru

Built trade-flow and post-trade surveillance controls across the front-to-back architecture using Java / Spring Boot / Kafka microservices, with big-data pipelines on Spark and Hadoop.

SDE I · ZestMoney
Aug 2021 — Apr 2022
Gurugram

Built event-driven loan creation, settlement and closure microservices on Java, Spring Boot and AWS (SQS/SNS, Lambda, Step Functions, S3) with MySQL, plus risk-team APIs and a Cucumber BDD suite.

Analyst · BlackRock
Jul 2020 — Aug 2021
Gurugram

Built ETF order-fulfilment backends for primary and secondary markets using event-sourcing microservices on Java, Spring Boot, Kafka and Cassandra, with resiliency and retry for completeness.

03 — SELECTED WORK

Products live in production

ClickTrade

LIVE
Data Infrastructure Lead · Aug 2025 — Present

Real-time streaming pipeline in Rust ingesting 10M+ events/day across 20+ streams on NATS JetStream, exactly-once with checkpoint recovery into ClickHouse (490M+ position rows). Trader analytics, leaderboards and wallet classification over REST + WebSocket.

RustNATS JetStreamClickHouseWebSocket
click.trade ↗

Carry Exchange

LIVE
Backend Engineer · Jun 2025 — Present

Decentralized perpetuals exchange with Solidity contracts (trading engine, vault, funding, oracle) and a Go backend across 20+ commodity, crypto and forex markets. 40+ endpoint REST API, TradingView charts, dynamic funding, automated liquidations, ERC-4626 vaults and Pyth.

SolidityGoERC-4626Pyth
carry.exchange ↗

Whrrl E-WHR

LIVE
Backend Engineer · Jun 2025 — Present

Warehouse-receipt tokenization on a Quorum private chain letting 35,000+ farmers borrow against stored produce. Node.js / Express + Angular with real-time SAP integration, video KYC, S3 docs and a 50+ bank maker/checker loan workflow. I own the AWS footprint and reconciliation.

QuorumNode.jsAngularSAP
warehouses.whrrl.in ↗

Filament Perps DEX

LIVE
Founding Engineer · May 2024 — Jan 2025

Decentralized perpetual trading for BTC and SEI with a comb-pool model. High-performance order book on Spring Boot / Kafka / Redis / MongoDB sustaining 60 orders/second, with on-chain collateral and PnL settlement.

Spring BootKafkaRedisSmart contracts
app.filament.finance ↗
04 — AI-NATIVE

How I build now

I treat Claude Code, Cursor and Codex as part of the toolchain, not a novelty. Agents and skills let me go from a clear spec to reviewed, production code far faster than typing it all by hand.

What doesn’t change: the architecture, the trade-offs and the review are mine. I’m accountable for what ships, and I read every line before it does.

05 — STACK

Tools I reach for

LANGUAGES

Rust · Go · Java · JavaScript · Python · SQL

FRAMEWORKS

Spring Boot · Node.js · Express · Angular · Actix

EVENT-DRIVEN

Kafka · NATS JetStream · SQS/SNS · Lambda · Flink

DATA

ClickHouse · PostgreSQL · MySQL · MongoDB · Redis · Cassandra

ON-CHAIN

Solidity · EVM · Quorum · Pyth · ERC-4626

INFRA

Docker · Kubernetes · AWS · Nginx · Prometheus · Grafana