Resume

Chetan Kumar Tyagi

Backend Engineer · Data Engineer · Quant Developer

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Experience

Jul 2024 – Present

Mumbai, India

Software Development Engineer

QuantInsti Quantitative Learning

  • Built production-grade data ingestion pipelines for OHLC, tick, and fundamental data across equities, futures, options, and indices on the Blueshift platform.
  • Performance-tuned the options data ingestion pipeline end-to-end — reducing ingestion time from ~90 min to 25–30 min (65%+ improvement) through parallelisation and profiling-driven refactoring.
  • Implemented SABR and Black-Scholes options pricing models, extending quantitative analytics capability for derivatives data.
  • Developed Spark SQL jobs for large-scale dataset transformation and validation across historical options and equity data.
  • Mentored junior engineers on pipeline design, data-quality practices, and Python best practices.

Oct 2023 – Jun 2024

Thane, India

Senior Software Engineer

Neam Caps (sharpely / finpeg)

  • Profiled and optimised database queries and legacy systems — achieving 80% faster query results and 50% reduction in resource usage.
  • Conducted large-scale backtesting for equity trading strategies using QuantConnect Lean (Python); collaborated with market researchers to surface actionable signals.
  • Extended live trading engine to support full execution beyond paper trading, including custom margin models for capital efficiency.

Apr 2021 – Oct 2023

Noida, India

Software Engineer

WealthWisers Technologies

  • Engineered TradeTez — a multi-broker, multi-account trading backend supporting NSE and NYSE markets across IIFL, SMC, Zerodha, and 5Paisa.
  • Built end-to-end trading bots covering backtesting, optimisation, and live execution using broker APIs; handled concurrent multi-account order routing reliably.
  • Developed a publish-subscribe system using WebSockets and Socket.IO for live trade distribution across clients.

Technical Skills

Core Languages

Python (expert) · Rust · SQL · Bash

AI & LLM

Multi-agent orchestration · Claude API · Gemini / Vertex AI · OpenAI API · Ollama · MCP (server + client) · Prompt engineering

Data Engineering

Airflow · PySpark (Core / SQL / Streaming) · Pandas · Polars · Parquet · Snowflake · Hive / HDFS · DuckDB

Backend

FastAPI · Django · Flask · WebSockets · Socket.IO · AsyncIO · AMQP · MQTT

Databases

PostgreSQL · MySQL · MongoDB · Redis · SQLite · CrateDB

Infrastructure

AWS (EC2, EKS, S3, Lambda, RDS, Athena, Glue, SQS) · Docker · Git / CI/CD · Ubuntu / Linux

Trading & Quant

Broker API integration · Options pricing (SABR, Black-Scholes) · Event-driven execution · Backtesting · Tick / OHLC data

Education & Certifications

Bachelor of Computer Applications

CCSU, Meerut, UP · 2021

  • Deep Learning Specialisation — deeplearning.ai / Coursera
  • SQL for Data Science — UC Davis / Coursera
  • HackerRank 5-Star — Python & SQL
  • Cloud Computing (Azure) & Big Data Hadoop with Python — CETPA Infotech