Resume
Chetan Kumar Tyagi
Backend Engineer · Data Engineer · Quant Developer
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
Python (expert) · Rust · SQL · Bash
Multi-agent orchestration · Claude API · Gemini / Vertex AI · OpenAI API · Ollama · MCP (server + client) · Prompt engineering
Airflow · PySpark (Core / SQL / Streaming) · Pandas · Polars · Parquet · Snowflake · Hive / HDFS · DuckDB
FastAPI · Django · Flask · WebSockets · Socket.IO · AsyncIO · AMQP · MQTT
PostgreSQL · MySQL · MongoDB · Redis · SQLite · CrateDB
AWS (EC2, EKS, S3, Lambda, RDS, Athena, Glue, SQS) · Docker · Git / CI/CD · Ubuntu / Linux
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