Sutirtha Kayal
Lead Engineer- R & D
Kolkata,WB
Summary
Lead engineer – R&D with 14+ years of experience in software engineering and product development, currently managing cross functional teams and leading the roadmap and delivery of a real-time tracking platform.
Previously worked on automated high-frequency algorithmic trading, data processing and routing optimization for large vehicle fleets. Combines deep technical expertise with strategic product thinking to build scalable, user centric solutions in fast-paced environments.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
Work History
Lead Engineer - R&D
QI Mobility Pvt Ltd
04.2025 - Current
- Company Overview: (Quantum Inventions Pvt Ltd)
- Managing cross functional teams and leading the roadmap and delivery of FMDP.
- Continuous support for QOPTS and ERP2 projects.
- (Quantum Inventions Pvt Ltd)
Lead Engineer - R&D
Continental Automotive Components India Pvt Ltd
01.2020 - 03.2025
- Company Overview: (Quantum Inventions Pvt Ltd)
- Played key role in building fleet tracking platform from the ground up, enabling real-time, fast fleet and asset tracking using Golang.
- Designed and implemented backend services to ingest, parse and process the device data over TCP protocol, supporting multiple GPS tracker devices.
- Developed data normalization and storage logic to support high-throughput, low-latency, scalable location tracking and event handling.
- Collaborated closely with frontend, QA and UI/UX teams to define product workflows, features and release scope across agile sprints.
- Actively involved in product lifecycle management, including feature planning, prioritization and coordination across cross-functional teams.
- Provided support for BRO project as it internally uses QOPTS which I developed earlier.
- Provided support in LDS project, one of the major users of FMDP.
- Developed java-based microservices architecture for ERP 2.0 ecosystem, enabling seamless, faster and reliable communication with other systems via Solace MQ.
- Built scalable services for map tile delivery to support high-performance geographic visualization.
- Designed and optimized task allocation algorithms for enforcement officers, improving field operations efficiency and response time.
- Contributed to the modernization of Singapore’s ERP system through reliable, distributed backend services and integration workflows.
- Leveraged AWS services (EC2, S3, Cloudwatch) for deployment, monitoring and scaling core backend components.
- Achieved > 80%-unit test coverage across core services using Junit and Mockito.
- Collaborated with QA team to support and extend test automation process to accelerate regression testing and deployment cycle.
- Provided ongoing production support (For ERP2), including minor bug fixes, client-requested enhancements, and post-deployment debugging to ensure system stability.
- (Quantum Inventions Pvt Ltd)
Senior Software Developer – R&D
Aeicorp Technologies Pvt Ltd
06.2015 - 12.2017
- Company Overview: (Quantum Inventions Pvt Ltd)
- Optimize image encoding, decoding and rendering using native C/C++ libraries. Reduced image size by 83%.
- Decoding location using OpenLR and TMC message parsing to extract incident and event information from traffic data.
- Performance benchmarking the decoding and rendering.
- Optimized multi-vehicle routing using in-house routing engine, supporting 1000+ daily routes.
- Calculated accurate ETA, distance and travel times improving operation cost by 20%.
- Added custom constraints (e.g., jobs relation, number of maximum jobs by a driver etc.), tailored to client requirements.
- Enabled dynamic rerouting, increasing delivery rate by 12%.
- Performance benchmarking for ~40K jobs.
- (Quantum Inventions Pvt Ltd)
Senior Software Developer
Tradelab Software Pvt Ltd
05.2014 - 11.2014
- Implemented input adapter for TBT (Tick-by-tick) data.
- Implemented algorithmic strategy like SPREAD.
- Upgraded trading system to support latest NSE, BSE protocol, ensuing seamless compatibility and uninterrupted order flow.
Technology Analyst Leader
Securities Performance Algorithms Pvt. Ltd
08.2012 - 04.2014
- Company Overview: (Great Media Technologies Pvt Ltd)
- Lead the team of 4 Developers.
- Improved multithreaded trading system performance, achieving up to 30% reduction in execution which make latency to 80 microsec.
- Supported the statistical research team by processing and delivering terabytes of historical and live market data to aid in strategy development.
- Designed and built mock-stock exchange simulator to test strategies under realistic market conditions.
- Designed and optimized tick-by-tick market data processing systems handling 1000K+ messages/sec with microsecond-level latency.
- Developed and deployed (HFT) automated trading strategies in C based on models from quantitative teams.
- Gained hands-on experience with MCX and CQG protocols.
- (Great Media Technologies Pvt Ltd)
Education
Master of Computer Application - undefined
Techno India College of Technology
01.2011
Bachelor of Science - undefined
Vivekanda College
01.2008
Higher Secondary - undefined
Burul High School
01.2005
Secondary Education - undefined
RK Mission Siksha Mandir
01.2003
Skills
- Go
- Python
- Java
- C
- C
- Redmine
- PostgresSQL
- Oracle
- Goland
- Visual Studio Code
- IntellijIdea
- Windows
- Linux
- AWS (ECS, EC2, RDS, SQS, Lambda, DynamoDB, Cloudwatch, ElasticCache)
- Docker
- Github actions
- Shell script
Hobbies and Interests
- Travel
- Cricket
- Movies
Timeline
Lead Engineer - R&D
QI Mobility Pvt Ltd
04.2025 - Current
Lead Engineer - R&D
Continental Automotive Components India Pvt Ltd
01.2020 - 03.2025
Senior Software Developer – R&D
Aeicorp Technologies Pvt Ltd
06.2015 - 12.2017
Senior Software Developer
Tradelab Software Pvt Ltd
05.2014 - 11.2014
Technology Analyst Leader
Securities Performance Algorithms Pvt. Ltd
08.2012 - 04.2014
Master of Computer Application - undefined
Techno India College of Technology
Bachelor of Science - undefined
Vivekanda College
Higher Secondary - undefined
Burul High School
Secondary Education - undefined
RK Mission Siksha Mandir
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