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Software Engineer @ D.E. Shaw | Applied GenAI, Full-Stack & Backend Platforms

About

I’m a software engineer and Member of Technical Staff at D. E. Shaw, where I work across full-stack engineering, financial technology, and applied GenAI. A lot of my work sits in the space between messy real-world information and clean, useful systems. I’ve worked on tools that make complex financial and research data easier to structure, analyze, and act on, including AI-powered workflows, analytics platforms, and internal products used in high-stakes environments. I work mostly with React, TypeScript, Java, Python, SQL, and LLM APIs, with experience across frontend-heavy workflows, backend systems, data pipelines, vector databases, document ingestion, monitoring, and reliability. But I care less about the specific stack and more about building something thoughtful, dependable, and genuinely useful. I like work that makes me think deeply: breaking down ambiguity, asking the right questions, talking through ideas with good people, and slowly turning “this is confusing” into “okay, this makes sense.” That mindset shows up outside work too. I’m curious by default, always reading or learning something, and I tend to have opinions about almost everything. Outside of work, I love traveling, fitness, reading, and organizing or hosting events that bring people together. I’m excited by how quickly technology is changing, and I’m trying to keep growing with it: by building, questioning, learning, and staying curious.

Location

Greater Bengaluru Area

AI stack

anthropic apis

claude code

codex

cursor

elevenlabs

kimi

Work experience

Member of Technical Staff at D. E. Shaw India Private Limited, Jun 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 3 mos, Building full-stack and applied GenAI systems for financial research, analytics, and internal platform workflows. - Led development of an LLM-powered Excel extraction app that converts complex workbooks into clean tables, reducing manual structuring from hours to minutes. - Owned investment-intelligence workflows across React, Java REST APIs, Python, SQL, data pipelines, releases, and production support. - Productized GenAI tools for profile classification and document Q&A, reducing research and extraction workflows from weeks/hours to minutes. - Improved platform reliability and access control through monitoring, load testing, failover drills, data restrictions, and JVM profiling.

Winter Intern at D. E. Shaw India Private Limited, Jan 2023 - Jun 2023 · 6 mos, Modernized a business-critical internal web application using React, Redux, Spring Boot, and Elasticsearch. - Improved maintainability, search accuracy, UI responsiveness, reliability, and backend data retrieval.

Summer Intern at Microsoft, Jul 2022 - Aug 2022 · 2 mos, Hyderabad, Built reliability tooling for Microsoft Email Orchestrator workflows. - Developed a Razor interface for regional workflow visualization and traffic rerouting using Azure Service Bus and Azure Functions.

Summer Intern at D. E. Shaw India Private Limited, May 2022 - Jun 2022 · 2 mos, Hyderabad, Built real-time infrastructure for the firm’s core trading system. - Developed a C++ and Apache Kafka notification client that eliminated 50K-60K daily polling requests and reduced database load.

Education

Integrated M. Tech., Computer Science & Engineering, Specialization in AIML, International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore

Maharaja Sawai Bhawani Singh School - India