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# Nishant Singh on Tal

## Headline

Building tech \| Head of Engg\. @ Stratzy

## About

Multidisciplinary product engineer with over 6\+ years of experience writing code and worked on multiple stacks developing software applications across web, mobile and backend infrastructure\. \- Currently leading the technology for broker integrations to build Algo marketplace and scaling technology infrastructure at Stratzy Fintech Pvt Ltd\. \- Product Lead System Architect, manages infrastructure, devops and infosec for Stratzy Fintech Pvt Ltd\. \- Joined as the founding engineer and 1st full time employee in Algokart which later got rebranded to Stratzy back in November 2020\. \- Core competency in developing low latency scalable system architectures, DevOps, Cybersecurity, responsive mobile and web applications\. \- First principle thinker, tinkerer and a firm believer in leading by example\.

## Location

Mumbai

## Work experience

Head of Engineering at Stratzy, Jul 2024 \- Present · 2 yrs 2 mos, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, All things tech \- Lead System Architect for designing the framework and implementation of Algos Infrastructure for Marketplace product integration with India’s top tech heavy brokers\. \- Architected deep integrations framework of Stratzy’s algo offerings in some of the top stock brokers in India \- Built the tech solutioning for Ai Backtesting and Blackbox Strategy builder used internally for algo strategy research and development\. Extended the design to incorporate for Whitebox Algo development product \(yet to go live\)\. \- Looks into server management, DevOps, InfoSec, and Site Reliability on daily basis \- Managing broker translation & Onboarding new brokers onto the platform \- Leads System Architectures \(HLD,LLD\), backend & performance engineering for scaling and optimising existing trading systems and new services\. \- Manages engineering team, looks into 3rd party tools or partners integrations\. \- Built/Manages data services and pipelines for Quant systems\. \- Working as a Quant integrations developer to integrate algo trading strategies & systems into backend for tracking and execution in real markets, analysing algo trading strategies to improve signal generation efficiency and improve codebase for minimising gaps between back testing results and realtime market execution\. \- Leading tech initiatives, research and development \- Looks after tech hiring

Lead Software Engineer \- Web at Stratzy, Jul 2023 \- Jul 2024 · 1 yr 1 mo, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, \- Maintained web application projects for Ad\-Hocs and new feature developments in Internal Admin Dashboard, Payments Website & Tradelink \(B2B2C Product\) \- Actively developed web app revamp for Stratzy \(https://stratzy\.in\), architected base codebase for optimally computing complex portfolio calculations on tick\-by\-tick real\-time data across variety of product offerings that users can invest or trade into within State Management solution used\. Led deep integration for Stratzy web application into stock broker’s applications \- Dhan, Paytm Money, 5Paisa, Bigul, and TradeSmart\. \- Created user journeys to do product\-led sales\. \- Automated email & push notification journeys for better user experience and optimise existing user journey conversion to improve user activation and retention metrics\. \- Hired/Managed the web app team\.

DevSecOps Engineer at Stratzy, Sep 2022 \- Jul 2024 · 1 yr 11 mos, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, \- Revamped the complete CI/CD pipeline to allow git commit message\-based controlled triggers for system deployments which implements security best practices by using session\-based AWS SSM send\-command to run bash scripts for deployment on various systems, keeping the SSH port private and no sharing of credentials in the process\. Optimised full system deployment\(6 monolithic services\) to complete within 2 minutes while keeping a minimum scope for system downtime\. \- Implemented Master\-Replica\-Replica setup for our global Redis server with automatic failover using Redis Sentinel for high availability\. \- Reduced overall AWS infrastructure cost by \~600$/mo \+ \(\~300$/mo savings plan\) by reconfiguring/reducing our on\-demand EC2 instances to cost\-efficient machine types by understanding existing resource utilisation while making sure the scope of vertical and horizontal scaling\. \- Bought all system resource utilisation >50% by implementing effective clustering on 70% available resources per instance, and distributing various processes on underutilised instances\. \- Self\-hosted Signoz for observability and telemetry data collection stack, migrated Stratzy's blog from WordPress to self\-hosted Ghost CMS, migrated AMI\-based Redash installation to self\-hosted non\-AMI installation, self\-hosted Discourse for the Stratzy community website, and manages all these systems and infra services\. \- Mitigated a full\-service cyber attack of a modified version of advanced crypto mining malware, Kingsing, which used Redis and AWS VPC open port scan to remotely execute the malware, taking available compute, and export private keys and file credentials to a malicious remote system\. \- Implemented many solutions and industry best practices to secure all the infrastructure from cyber attacks and security threats\. \- Writing shell automations for day\-to\-day tasks and working on implementing other important infrastructure\-related things, such as logging stack, incident reporting, etc\.

## Education

Bachelor Of Computer Application, Computer Applications, Mahatma Jyotiba Phule Rohilkhand University

Bachelor of Technology \- BTech, Computer Science, Dr\. A\.P\.J\. Abdul Kalam Technical University

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