// portfolio

Work I've shipped.

About 18 years of building software: 14 at Adobe on cloud security, and since 2024 independent work on AI products, fintech and algorithmic trading. Below are the tools I use, where I've worked, and the projects, each with what I actually built.

## Toolbox

What I reach for, grouped by area.

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Architecture

Solution ArchitectureSystem DesignDistributed SystemsMicroservicesEvent-DrivenServerlessAPI DesignDomain Modeling
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AI & LLM

Claude APIOpenAI APIRAG PipelinesPrompt EngineeringVector SearchAgentic WorkflowsMCPClaude CodeCursor
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Languages

TypeScriptPythonC++GoJavaJavaScriptSQLDart
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Trading & Low-Latency

Order books & matchingBacktestingOptions pricing & GreeksTick-data storageWebSocket market dataBroker APIs (Zerodha Kite)Ring buffers vs locksC++ execution path
web

Frontend

ReactNext.jsGatsbyFlutterTailwind CSS
dns

Backend

Node.jsNest.jsExpressSpring BootFastAPIDjangoGraphQLgRPC
database

Databases

PostgreSQLMongoDBDynamoDBRedisElasticsearchOracleMySQL
cloud

Cloud & DevOps

AWSGCPDockerKubernetesLambdaSQSSNSS3CI/CDTerraformNginx
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Domains

E-CommerceFintechSaaSIoTSecurityHealthcare

## Experience

Where I've worked.

2024 – PresentOwn products & consulting

Independent Engineer

Building products end to end: AI tools (RAG, agents, voicebots), a real-time stock market game, fintech and e-commerce apps, and an algorithmic trading system for Indian options and MCX, with strategies in Python and order execution in C++. Plus architecture consulting.

AI/LLMAlgo TradingC++Full-StackFintech
2010 – 2024Adobe Systems

Sr. Computer Scientist / Technical Architect

14 years on cloud-native security and compliance platforms covering 2,500+ AWS accounts and used by most of Adobe's engineering teams: vulnerability scanning, secure CI/CD, code signing, serverless automation. Adobe Oscar Award in 2019.

Cloud SecurityEnterprise ScaleServerlessMicroservices
2007 – 2009NEC HCL

Module Lead

Designed and delivered storage product features in C++, and owned the 32-bit to 64-bit migration.

C++Storage Systems

## Recognition

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Adobe Oscar Award (2019)

For the cloud security and compliance platform work

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Adobe Tech Summit Speaker

Presented architectural research to a global engineering audience, San Francisco 2017

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Adobe Kickstart Innovation Program

Selected to pitch product concepts to senior leadership

## Education

2004 – 2007

Master of Computer Applications (MCA)

Amity University

2001 – 2004

Bachelor of Computers (BCA)

Kurukshetra University

## Projects

Products, internal tools and experiments. Each page covers the problem, what I built and the trade-offs.

$ Have a hard problem?

I take on a small number of projects: architecture reviews, AI systems, trading infrastructure.