I design trading systems and lead the teams that build them.
Right now I'm Tech Lead at Equicom Technologies in Bengaluru, building a crypto derivatives exchange with a team of 30+ engineers and QA.
Over six years I've worked on exchanges, DeFi trading systems and smart contracts. For the last three I've led teams and advised on architecture.
I set the system design with the founders and chief architect: how order management, matching, wallets and market data fit together as Go services built for millisecond-and-below latency.
I lead 20+ engineers across backend, frontend and mobile, plus 10+ QA. I own release cadence, code review standards and architecture alignment across teams.
I lead the design of perpetual futures margining, risk checks and liquidation: the parts of an exchange where a wrong number costs traders real money.
Margin and liquidation are where an exchange's risk engine earns its keep, and a big part of what I work on. Open a position, then drag the mark price and watch what the risk engine sees.
100,000.00
Margin ratio is 5.00%. This long is liquidated if the mark price falls to 90,452.26, a move of 9.55%.
Isolated margin on a USDT-margined perpetual. Fees, funding and tiered maintenance rates are left out so the math stays readable. This is a teaching model, not any exchange's production logic.
Most of what I've built ran inside companies, under NDA, or on products that have since closed. Here's what I can share.
A centralized crypto exchange with perpetual futures. I lead the engineering org and own the architecture with the founders and chief architect, across matching, risk, margin and liquidation, wallets and market data.
Details stay private until launch.
A trading system for Binance USD-M futures that I designed, built and run on AWS. Live books trade on real and demo Binance accounts, while a dozen paper books run different strategies on the same 544-coin market feed, so ideas are tested side by side before money moves.
Every order passes a shared risk layer first: per-trade risk, exposure and per-coin caps, a daily loss brake, a liquidation buffer, price and data-freshness checks, a safe mode and a kill switch. Each live book has a paper twin, and every trade the live book refuses is recorded with its reason, so the gap between paper results and real execution is measured, not guessed.
A platform that ran quantitative strategies on Bitcoin perpetual futures for retail investors. I worked on its on-chain asset management and how it scaled. Assets under management peaked close to $1 million before the product was retired.
A Polygon arcade where players wagered crypto on 1v1 matches and tournaments, with NFT passes for holders. I wrote the smart contracts, which passed a CertiK audit, and co-authored the scaling whitepaper.
Our scaling work raised transaction capacity by about 30% and cut gas costs by about 25%. The product didn't take off commercially and was wound down.
A read-only contract that takes any Uniswap V3 pool and returns its current price, tick range and the token amounts inside that range. Verified source, deployed from nc-sid.eth.
Lead 30+ engineers and QA building a crypto derivatives exchange. Own architecture, release cadence and engineering standards.
Advised trading clients on DEX bots and DeFi integrations across Uniswap, Aave and Compound, and wrote their technical playbooks.
Led a cross-functional team. Owned smart contract design, code review and architecture conversations with clients.
Smart contracts and scaling for Gaming Arcade and the UnTrade trading platform. Co-authored a scaling whitepaper.
Digital asset systems, token sale structuring and regulatory research for clients.
I'm looking for a role leading architecture and engineering at an exchange, broker or trading platform. Email is the fastest way to reach me.