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Education
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Hi, I’m

Kalyan Nelluri

Software Engineer
Hyderabad

Summary

To pursue a challenging and growth-oriented career with a company having a global vision, which encourages creativity and offers me an opportunity to learn and develop as a person, and to become successful in my professional life.

Overview

14
years of professional experience

Work History

D.E.SHAW India Pvt Ltd

Associate Director, Technology
1 2023 - Current

Job overview

  • Spearheading the Treasury Technology team, which is dedicated to develop advanced tools for optimizing core treasury functions for Hedge Funds.
  • Collaborated closely with Front Office Trading groups and provided various tools to optimize opportunity cost involved causing direct revenue impact in the order of several millions of dollars.
  • Successfully scaled the team from 4 to over 12 developers, seeded 2 internal teams across 3 different sites (Hyderabad, Bangalore, Gurugram) to solve complex niche challenges in CRM(Counter Party Relationship Management) and Treasury.
  • Oversaw annual budget planning processes, ensuring the planning of strategic and tactical objectives of the group.

Uber India Pvt Ltd

Senior Engineering Manager(EM2)
04.2022 - 01.2023

Job overview

  • Lead Data Intelligence(DI) and Experimentation Backend and Mobile teams in Uber
  • DI team is responsible for building various libraries that make logging reliable on Mobile and standardize logging in backend services
  • Experimentation team is responsible for developing framework within mobile for building either feature flags or A/B tests
  • Seeded experimentation team in India and grew it to a size of 5 developers.

Arcesium India Pvt Ltd (D.E.Shaw Group)

Engineering Manager
01.2019 - 03.2022

Job overview

  • Responsible for development and delivery of software projects with strong focus on quality and timelines
  • Manage a team with a broad range of responsibilities which include client interactions, requirements gathering, design, development, unit testing, code reviews and technical documentation
  • Supervising and collaborating with distributed product development teams globally.

Arcesium India Private Limited(D.E.Shaw Group)

Technology Lead
01.2016 - 01.2019

Job overview

  • Migrated Margin Computation Framework: Upgraded an existing margin computation framework to a multi-threaded architecture, incorporating advanced caching mechanisms to store reference data. This enhancement enabled real-time margin computation, significantly improving processing speed and accuracy.

Technologies Used: Perl, Python, Redis distributed cache on AWS

  • Simulation System Development: Designed and developed a simulation system that allows analysts to model real-time trading scenarios across various broker methodologies. This system facilitates position transfers and optimizes margin calculations for portfolios.

Technologies Used: JSP, Spring, WebServices

  • Margin Calculator Configuration Framework: Created a framework for exposing and updating margin calculator configurations, enabling users to adjust parameters and instantly reflect changes in margin calculations.

Technologies Used: Java, Spring

Amazon India Pvt Ltd

Software Engineer
12.2011 - 01.2016

Job overview

  • Projects Worked: Cairo: Cairo is a general purpose image processing and recognition system capable of extracting text out of digital images
  • Technologies: Image Processing using OpenCV, Tesseract
  • Quiddity: System which attempts to identify seller pain points while selling with amazon by tracking their behavior across various pages and provide self- help solutions
  • Big Data Technologies: Hadoop, Map Reduce, Apache Spark, Hive
  • Feedback Removal: We have designed an automated way to classify whether feedbacks are valid or not for sellers
  • We have used text classification algorithms and regex based matching in this project
  • Machine Learning Algorithms: Naïve Bayes
  • SPOT: Developed a unified framework, which acts as a platform for the associates to resolve the contacts from the sellers
  • This platform contains diagnostics tools for associates to identify the seller facing issue and tools for fixing these issues
  • Project 911: Improve the seller experience for premium sellers by creating custom routing mechanism, which prioritizes their contacts by routing to special queues with improved service level times
  • IIDP Automation: Created a backend robotic system, which makes a contact go through a rules engine and accordingly automates the contact without associate intervention.

Rediff.com

Product Engineer
05.2010 - 12.2011

Job overview

  • News Search: Buzz serves as news search over thousands of news sources in real time
  • This system has 3 main parts: Crawler: We crawl 1000+ hub pages from 300+ sources
  • This includes RSS and HTML pages
  • The module fetches the news feeds in the configured interval and stores the content in the data-store
  • Technologies used: Core Java, JDBC, MySQL Parser: The feeds downloaded by crawler are parsed in batches and the parsed content is stored in the data-store.HTML feeds are parsed using custom HTML parsers.RSS feeds are parsed using feedparser
  • Technologies used: Python, python-MYSQLDB, Parser, FeedParser, and MYSQL Indexer: Pushes the parsed data to SOLR for indexing
  • It is responsible for indexing the parsed data
  • Technologies used: Solr as indexer customized according to our requirement.

Education

International Institue of Information Technology
Hyderabad

M.Tech (CSE) from Computer Science
05.2010

University Overview

GPA: 9.06

JNTU

B.Tech (CSE)

University Overview

Marks: 79.5

Board of Intermediate Education

Intermediate (M.P.C)

University Overview

Marks: 93

Secondary School Certificate

SSC

University Overview

Marks: 81.1

Skills

Team Collaboration and Leadership

Professionalawards

  • Won Arcesium Coding Hackathon in category of “Most Relevant Technology Hack” for presenting an idea to compute Margin in Real-Time.
  • Won the Seller Coding Hackathon in Amazon (Held Worldwide) for implementing and presenting an innovative idea using Pattern Recognition and Image Processing to complete KYC of sellers.
  • Won customer coding Hackathon in Amazon (Held Worldwide) for implementing/presenting an idea using Machine Learning to avoid unnecessary customer contacts saving millions of dollars.
  • Submitted various ideas in the areas of Customer/Seller Experience for Patent rights in Amazon.

Academicawards

  • Secured a place in the list of students with academic distinction, which is awarded for outstanding performance in academics during M-Tech.
  • Awarded for being in dean's list of merit for excellence in academics for all the semesters during M-Tech at IIITH.
  • Secured a silver medallion for being the topper (2nd) of the batch in Computer Science Department during B-TECH.
  • Got ALL INDIA RANK of 300 in GATE-2008.

Skillset

PYTHON, JAVA, PHP, Spring with Hibernate, Hadoop, MapReduce2, Apache Spark, HIVE, MySQL, Oracle, Hbase, DynamoDB, Hypertable, Ruby, Shell Script, PERL, AWK, SED, Unified Modeling Language, WEKA, SCIKIT, RHEL7, Ubuntu, Win10

Timeline

Senior Engineering Manager(EM2)

Uber India Pvt Ltd
04.2022 - 01.2023

Engineering Manager

Arcesium India Pvt Ltd (D.E.Shaw Group)
01.2019 - 03.2022

Technology Lead

Arcesium India Private Limited(D.E.Shaw Group)
01.2016 - 01.2019

Software Engineer

Amazon India Pvt Ltd
12.2011 - 01.2016

Product Engineer

Rediff.com
05.2010 - 12.2011

Associate Director, Technology

D.E.SHAW India Pvt Ltd
1 2023 - Current

International Institue of Information Technology

M.Tech (CSE) from Computer Science
04.2010

JNTU

B.Tech (CSE)
04.2008

Board of Intermediate Education

Intermediate (M.P.C)

Secondary School Certificate

SSC
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