12 Feb 2024 | Bangalore, India

Github: rishirahul

LinkedIn: rishirahul

Experience​

Thinkbot Research LLP

HEAD OF TECHNOLOGY | Dec. 2020 - Now | Bangalore, India

• Accountable for recruiting, mentoring, and managing the technology team to facilitate seamless execution of daily trading operations and quantitative research.
• Work closely with the quant trading team to understand and resolve their technical hurdles.
• Drive projects to enhance the efficiency of the trading platform and research processes.

  2023-2024

• CamilliaDB: Designed and implemented a highly efficient propritory columnar database for storing and reading timeseries data in C & Python.
• Implemented SABR Model based volatality curve calculation in backtest and live trading.

  2022-2023

• Dynamic switchover from tick by tick to broadcast data
• Developed python based backtest for LF strategies.
• Anylysed performance of Solarflare-X2522 vs Exanic X25 network card.

  2021-2022

• Developed a model to predict RTT for backtest.
• Rearchitected backtest to utilize multicore and improve overall runtime by 2x.

  2020-2021

• Responsible for on-boarding HF & MF strategies to the platform.
• Developed Qt based Risk Management tool for brokers.

  2019-2020

• Developed low latency trading platform for HFT strategies to trade in NSE.
• Developed to tools to measure and improve latency of trading platform.

Totido Financial services pvt ltd.

DIRECTOR AND FOUNDER | April. 2022 - June. 2023 | Bangalore, India

• Founded Totido to democratize financial markets through algorithmic trading access.
• Responsible for on boarding brokers, hiring and training technology team.
• Created a proprietary cloud infrastructure enabling traders to access diverse indicators and develop, test, and backtest strategies.

Thinkbot Techonologies

QUANT DEVELOPER | June. 2019 - Dec. 2020 | Bangalore, India

TOOLS AND TECHNOLOGIES: C++, STL, Boost, R, Python, Unix

• Developed backtest platform to simulate financial market on tick by tick data.
• Revamped data structures and re-organized HF strategy which led to
  • 2x improvement in backtest runtime time
  • 2.5x improvement in strategy latency
• Developed a novel method to predict order confirmation and trade of self order.
• Improved efficiency and resolved bugs in proprietary trading indicators.

Greensmart.in

DIRECTOR AND COFOUNDER | April. 2019 - June. 2019 | Bangalore, India

TOOLS AND TECHNOLOGIES: Android Native, Python, Nodejs, Express, PostgreSQL, Selenium, Angular, MongoDb

• Founded marketplace to connect farmers with businesses.
• Developed an Android app for businesses to view listings and order items.
• Written a python & selenium based scraper and data analysis tool to collect and study Fruits and Veg. price data from NHB website
• Developed a supply chain management system.

Synopsys India Pvt Ltd

SENIOR R & D ENGINEER I | June. 2017 - May. 2019 | Bangalore, India

TOOLS AND TECHNOLOGIES: C, C++, Python, Compiler, Simulator, STL, Boost, YACC, Verilog, System Verilog, Pandas, Unix

• Responsible for exploration and implementation of ideas to improve performance of VCS simulator
• Single-handedly implemented and maintained multiple performance projects which led to runtime improvement for various customers
• Proposed and implemented projects from scratch e.g. Enhanced NBA Loop Optimization, Always block sensitivity list splitting
• Worked on various enhancements in loop vectorization project which resulted in > 2X getting vectorized in customers like Intel, Qualcomm

R & D ENGINEER II | Apr. 2015 - June. 2017 | Bangalore, India

TOOLS AND TECHNOLOGIES: C, C++, Compiler, Simulator, STL, YACC, Verilog, System Verilog, Unix

• Played major role in design, development and deployment of following projects:
  • task function inlining | RTL pullup | Large vector splitting
• Tune heuristics for large vector splitting resulting > 3x runtime gain in multiple customer designs
• Awarded with ”Individual excellence award” for developing and deploying above projects in very less time

Robert Bosch Engineering and Business Solutions

Senior Software Engineer | Aug. 2013 - Apr. 2015 | Bangalore, India

TOOLS AND TECHNOLOGIES: Embedded C, Perl, XML, Automotive controllers, Sensor data processing, RTOS

• ENGINE SCHEDULING CONTROL GROUP: Designed scheduler to skip execution of unnecessary engine angle synchronous processes at higher engine speeds achieving improvement in runtime and reduction of processor load.
• ENGINE POSITION MANAGEMENT GROUP: Analyzed engine position management software package to improve runtime along with identifying and resolving bugs in crankshaft and camshaft device drivers.

Education​

Indian Institute of Technology(IIT), Kharagpur, India

Dual Degree with B.Tech in Electrical Engg. & M.Tech in Instrumentation Engg.

Project​

Modelling, simulation and optimization of electric powertrain in hybrid electric vehicle

M. TECH THESIS PROJECT UNDER PROF SIDDHARTHA MUKHOPADHYAY IN ASSOCIATION WITH TATA MOTORS, 2013

• Goal of project was to simulate a hybrid vehicle in a multicore Opal-RT and test various models, configuration and control strategy
• Simulated battery with battery management setup and electric powertrain with its control strategy in hybrid vehicle
• Optimized developed model and C code generated from Simulink model, did task scheduling and processor allocation by breaking model into parts to simulate it in multiprocessor real time Opal-RT system and met requirements to simulate in real time

Real time fault detection and diagnosis in Induction machine used in hybrid vehicles

B.TECH PROJECT: PROF SIDDHARTHA MUKHOPADHYAY IN ASSOCIATION WITH TATA MOTORS, 2012

• Developed detailed model of Induction machine and simulated faults to study them without damaging the machine. All faults are detected using STFT and MuSiC with minimum accuracy of 80%

Development of a two wheel autonomous self-balancing robot capable of moving in all terrains

INTERNSHIP PROJECT: GRIDBOTS, 2010

• Developed a self-balancing robot using Gyroscope and Accelerometer to measure tilt angle and PID controller to balance it
• Programmed AVR microcontroller in C using AVR Studio to implement Kalman filter on sensor signal and PID controller

Development of real time electronic (pH sensor based) milk adulteration detector

PROF. KARABI BISWAS,2010 IN ASSOCIATION WITH JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY, 2009

• Used linear discriminant analysis (LDA) to classify milk data from sensor, indicating adulterant present in milk if found adulterated. Developed a highly accurate milk adulteration detector