Vaishant Makan

Software Developer @ION

Noida, IN

Designed and developed low-latency C++ market connectivity gateways for US, European, and APAC exchanges and financial institutions, implementing FIX 4.x/5.x, proprietary binary protocols (BOP/BIMP for FMX UST), IBM WebSphere MQ, FpML, and SWIFT; supported 20M+ daily transactions.– Built server-side infrastructure for front-office fixed-income trading across Market Data,Order/Quote/Trade Management, Reference Data, and STP, achieving sub-millisecond latencythrough multithreading, socket programming, and optimized protocol parsing in Dealer-to-Dealer(D2D) markets.– Owned the delivery lifecycle: requirements analysis, design, C++ development, API specification, testing, release management, client demos, and documentation for Tier-1 investment banks.– Developed market simulators and automation suites in Java + Robot Framework to validateexchange workflows; reduced manual QA effort by 50%.– Implemented CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Git, Docker, Ansible) to automate builds and deployments; cut release failures by 60% and accelerated time-to-market by 70%.– Diagnosed and resolved 100+ client production incidents (log/core-dump analysis, gdb), contributing permanent fixes and delivering patches across EMEA, NA, and APAC.– Collaborated with clients, business analysts, and global engineering teams; Trained junior engineers on ION MarketView and financial protocols.

Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology

Bachelor of Technology - BTech

DAV Public School Amritsar (PB)

Class 10th

DAV Public School Amritsar (PB)

class 12th CBSE Boards