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VELPURI VENKATA SRIHARSHA

VELPURI VENKATA SRIHARSHA

Low Latency Trading Architect
Bangalore

Summary

Engineering leader with 15+ years of experience in VLSI and high-frequency trading systems. Expert in RTL, HLS, FPGA-based low-latency platforms, and quantitative strategies. Led multiple high-impact teams delivering production-grade financial technology solutions.

Overview

17
17
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
2
2
Certifications
1
1
Language

Work History

Program Director

Qi-CAP Investments
Bangalore
08.2022 - Current
  • Led 20-member team to build low-latency trading infra across FPGA & software.
  • Designed FPGA tick-to-order pipeline outperforming vendor benchmarks.
  • Built SHM-based distributed tick handler & integrated HLS-based strategy modeling.

Sr. Design Engineer & Quant Analyst

SigmaQuant
Bangalore
08.2019 - 08.2022
  • Built and deployed hybrid trading platforms; increased PnL by 5x via FPGA porting.
  • Led team of 6; handled end-to-end dev and live performance tuning.

Sr. Associate — Hardware

AlphaGreP
Bangalore
11.2017 - 08.2019
  • Architected and verified full FPGA-based trading system; led 4-member team.
  • Developed robust verification methodologies for extreme market conditions.
  • Implemented advanced debugging and diagnostic capabilities for real-time monitoring.

Sr. Design Engineer

Texas Instruments & Lantiq
Bangalore
01.2009 - 01.2017
  • Worked on RTL design, FPGA validation, and SoC verification across several products.
  • Contributed to multiple successful product launches through rigorous design verification.
  • Mentored junior engineers and established design and verification best practices.

Education

B.E. (Hons.) - Electrical and Electronics

BITS Pilani
Pilani, India
01.2005 - 01.2009

Skills

Hardware Design:

  • RTL, FPGA, Verilog, SystemVerilog, UVM, HLS

  • Programming:

  • C, C, Python, Perl, Bash, TCL

  • Trading & Tools:

  • Low-latency Trading, NSE, BSE, B3, Vivado, Git, Linux, Unix

Interests

Yoga, puzzles, books

Additional Information

Team Leadership

Performance Tuning

System Architecture

Risk Assessment

Strategy modelling

Cross functional collobaration

Certification

FRM (Financial Risk Management)

Timeline

FRM (Financial Risk Management)

07-2023

Program Director

Qi-CAP Investments
08.2022 - Current

RYT 200 (Registered Yoga Teacher-200hours)

07-2021

Sr. Design Engineer & Quant Analyst

SigmaQuant
08.2019 - 08.2022

Sr. Associate — Hardware

AlphaGreP
11.2017 - 08.2019

Sr. Design Engineer

Texas Instruments & Lantiq
01.2009 - 01.2017

B.E. (Hons.) - Electrical and Electronics

BITS Pilani
01.2005 - 01.2009

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