Headline

Morgan Stanley (NCG) | ex-Tether | ex-NPCI | Google Summer of Code ’21 @KDE | low latency | defi | foss | tech | public policy | product | fintech | arbitrage | prediction markets

About

Software Engineer with 4+ years of hands-on experience in building resilient, system-level and low latency software across the finance, crypto, open-source, infrastructure, and fintech domains. Adept at architecting scalable Linux-based solutions, contributing upstream to core projects. Proven ability to work in fast-paced teams, with a strong presence in the free and open-source community through active participation in FOSS conferences and contributions with programs like Google Summer of Code. Passionate about writing clean, performant code and pushing the boundaries of modern systems programming. Key fields that Suraj is exploring these days: Low-latency systems, Prediction Markets, Decentralized Finance, Quantitative Development, AI agents, LLMs

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

claude code

codex

GroqCloud

Work experience

Contingent Worker/Consultant at Morgan Stanley, Jun 2025 - Present · 1 yr 4 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, via NetConnect Global (Hays Recruitment) C++ Developer - Integration Engineering ◦ Working in Institutional Securities Tech - Client Connectivity services, algo trading division covering Asian Markets ◦ Build and enhance low-latency electronic trading systems, integrating FIX-based high-touch and low-touch Order Management Systems serving Asian markets. ◦ Delivered business-critical trading platform enhancements and client integrations for institutional clients, including hedge funds and high-frequency trading (HFT) firms. Working in Algo Trading, Low latency softwares and infrastructures.

Software Development Services at Tether.io, May 2024 - Mar 2025 · 11 mos, Lugano, Ticino, Switzerland, Working on a push notification architecture for Linux smartphones using UnifiedPush . Continued working on the same project under Tether (a diversified stablecoin cryptocurrency company) as a contractor after PearTree. - Represented the project in open source & FOSS conferences. - worked on platforms that supported edge LLMs - attended Plan B Lugano in Switzerland

Software Engineer at PearTree, Apr 2023 - Apr 2024 · 1 yr 1 mo, Remote, - Was working for Tether to contribute upstream to phosh.mobi - Represented the project in open source & FOSS conferences. - PearTree got acquired by Tether

GET at National Payments Corporation Of India (NPCI), Sep 2022 - Feb 2023 · 6 mos, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, SRE @ NPCI Engineering Delivery - Infrastructures Was working on Chaos Engineering projects related to deployment architectures of NETC(Fastag), RuPay and UPI to examine and report the resiliency of all the components like services, network switches, load balancers etc

Trainee at National Payments Corporation Of India (NPCI), Jul 2022 - Sep 2022 · 3 mos, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Student Developer at KDE at Google Summer of Code, Jun 2021 - Nov 2021 · 6 mos, Adding functionalities to libalkimia (Backend for KDE's finance applications) and KMyMoney Tech Stack - C++/Qt framework Project Link - https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/projects/#6042427250442240

Education

Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Information Technology, BIT Sindri

Senior Secondary School, Army Public School , Ranchi

Public links

github: https://github.com/suraj-sloth