Raghava Kumar

About Raghava Kumar

I build trading systems for Citadel Securities. As technical lead for the systematic equities platform, I specialize in architecture and design for high performance, multi-threaded software systems. I am comfortable with modern C++ including advanced features such as template metaprogramming and atomic (lockless) code.I previously worked on perception, mapping, and navigation infrastructure for a mobile robotics startup. I frequently took the lead on embedded work such as Linux drivers, firmware, PCB review, and board bring-up. As an electrical and computer engineering (ECE) graduate from Cornell, I have a strong foundation in embedded systems through research, project teams and advanced coursework.My core competencies include software design, high performance systems, robotics and embedded systems. I am currently working on a H-1B visa and will require a visa transfer for new roles.

Experience

1. Software Engineer Tech Lead

   Citadel Securities

   May 2019 — Present · Chicago, IL, US

   Developing high-performance systematic trading systems for a leading market maker.* Principal architect and technical lead for a new market access controls library. Developed optimized C++ template code and deployed it globally across Citadel’s systematic trading desks to effectively manage risk.* Designed a fault-tolerant service to stream real-time trading data into Kafka. This service collects data from over sensitive trading systems worldwide and processes several billion messages every day.* Designed a single-writer, multi-reader lockless shared memory queue with support for gaps and out-of-order writes. Currently integrating this code into a proprietary reliable multicast implementation.* Directly managing a full-time engineer and coordinating tasks for a few other junior engineers on the team.* Other responsibilities include managing data transformations for regulatory reporting to FINRA, overseeing improvements to our Intermarket Sweep Orders (ISO) stack, and maintaining our equities trading platform.

Education

• The University of Chicago Booth School of Business

  Master of Business Administration - MBA

• Rishi Valley School

  ICSE (Grade 10)

• VASANT VALLEY SCHOOL

  CBSE (Grade 12)

• Cornell University

  Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Electrical and Computer Engineering

Skills

• Research
• Linux
• Analog Circuit Design
• Spice
• C#
• Arm Cortex M
• Python
• Java
• C
• Verilog
• Atmel Avr
• Pcb Design
• Matlab