Apoorv Kumar | Curriculum Vitae

Objective | Build and manage teams that deliver high impact computer systems.

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A UGUST 2017 – P RESENT B apoorv.kumar247@gmail.com
Shubh Loans E in.linkedin.com/in/apoorvkumart
V P Technology & Founding Team Member

Built the team from 5 full-stack developers to 20 E DUCATION

developers and data scientists with varying domains 2007 - 09 Senior Secondary School
of expertise including analytics, data management, CBSE - 91%
mobile/web apps, security and architecture. DAV Kota, Rajasthan
Developed custom SDLCs for different parts of
infrastructure ranging from Agile to Waterfall de- 2009 - 13 Bachelor of Technology
pending on business speed/safety/visibility needs. C OMPUTER S CIENCE & E NGG
Architected and led the development of a server- CGPA - 7.87/10
less+microservices based horizontally scalable and IIT Guwahati
highly available lending platform that handles thou-
sands of users per hour, millions of users overall
and can automatically scale over 10x. M ILESTONES
Platform is geared towards automating the en-
tire customer journey starting from customer ac- 2009 Rank 1376, IIT JEE
quisition (via our source integrations) to under- 2011 Rank 22, ACM ICPC Regional
writing decisions (using an ML based proprietary
decision framework) down to document generation 2013 Started IMD Core Strategies team in
and post disbursal collection support. Goldman Sachs Bangalore
2015 Grew IMD Core Strat Bangalore team to
6, largest among London/NY/Blr
J ULY 2016 – J ULY 2017
2017 Head of engineering at Shubh Loans
IMD Technology, Goldman Sachs
Associate, Trading Data Platform 2019 Shubh Loans tech team now ~20 strong

We developed and managed a real-time trade man-

agement system with sub-100 microsecond re- P UBLICATIONS
sponse times using Apache Geode and a distributed
highly-available Java/Akka application. Data was 2014 IEEE VLSI Design and Test 18th In-
archived into a HDFS/Sybase data-lake for re- ternational Conference
porting & analytics using Apache Spark & Kafka. Modelling and analysis of wireless com-
We built a binary deployment system with con- munication over Network-on-Chip
figurable topologies to compile binaries, manage
configs and deploy clusters.
S OFTWARE SKILLS
M AY 2013 – J UNE 2016
L ANGUAGES Java, Python, Java Script, Scala,
IMD Strategies, Goldman Sachs SQL
Analyst, Asset Management Data Platform
S YSTEMS AWS - Redshift, EC2, S3,
Started and grew the Bangalore core-strat team Lambda, Load Balancer, Batch
to 6 strong with recruits from IITs. Apache - Spark, Hadoop, Geode
Helped develop DB agnostic high level language Databases- MySQL, Elastic
that compiled to DB specific SQL. Search, MongoDB, Sybase
Deployed and managed distributed in-memory Mem- P LATFORMS Machine Learning - AWS
SQL RDBMS and Elastic Search clusters and de- Rekognition, Google Vision,
veloped Kerberos based authentication and auto- Tensorflow, Scikit
expiring sessions for them. Visualization - Airbnb Superset,
Developed high throughput ETL infrastructure Plotly Dash
between Sybase IQ (analytics layer) and MemSQL
(presentation layer).
Developed guidelines, portfolio rebalancing & trade
planning tool to improve prospective and retro-
spective analytics on trades for Fixed Income desk.