Aman Mehara

Experience

1. Lead, Tech

   The D. E. Shaw Group

   Jul 2021 — Present · Hyderabad, IN

   Led multiple software engineering teams over 4 years, managing up to 8 engineers concurrently and 17 individuals overall (direct and indirect reports, including interns); built scalable organisational structures and cross-functional processes enabling high-performing teams and seamless cross-team execution.• Directed the delivery of high-performing backend systems and distributed platforms with a focus on scalability and reliability; spearheaded UI modernisation and Generative AI initiatives to drive product innovation.• Drove performance management, career development, and mentorship, resulting in 5 promotions, improved retention, and consistently high delivery quality across projects.• Led annual and quarterly engineering roadmaps, prioritising initiatives by cross-team stakeholder value, team capacity, and alignment with strategic business and technical objectives. Delivered high-impact projects on time while coordinating regular status reviews and alignment sessions with stakeholders across multiple regions.• Leading a multi-disciplinary team in the architecture of a firm-wide, real-time distributed system. Designed as a use-case-agnostic, multi-tenant foundation, the platform unifies diverse data streams for high-concurrency delivery to web interfaces, centralising production workloads for 8 distinct groups—including the Trading Platform.• Designed a high-throughput, fault-tolerant distributed system relied upon by trading systems and analytics engines, sustaining 250 records/sec on average and scaling to 10k records/sec at peak, ensuring continuous availability for mission-critical operations.• Engineered a in-memory repository and indexing framework, delivering 8× faster lookups.• Engineered a proprietary formula in the trade analytics engine to calculate real-time portfolio-level currency exposure, maintaining ≤2% deviation from actual values and bridging gaps caused by compute-heavy, infrequent P&L updates.

Education

• Hope Hall Foundation School

  Higher Secondary, Science

  2000 — 2012

• National Institute of Technology Silchar

  Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science and Engineering

  2012 — 2016

Skills

• C++
• C
• Data Structures
• C#
• Java
• Html
• Sql
• Scala
• Rest
• Bpmn
• Workflow Management
• Css
• Unit Testing
• Javascript
• Jquery
• Visual Basic
• Php
• Object Oriented Design
• Xaml
• Asp.net
• Android
• Blogging
• Eclipse
• Guice
• Cucumber
• Groovy
• Photography
• Event Planning
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• Cryptography
• Artificial Neural Networks
• Functional Programming
• Dependency Injection