Akhil Tiwari

Lead Trading Systems Engineer | Sub-Microsecond HFT Platforms | C++20 • Low-Latency Infrastructure • Exchange Connectivity | 10+ Years

Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

About

Trading Systems Engineer with over 10 years of experience in HFT, low-latency infrastructure, and distributed platforms. Skilled in developing high-performance systems, quickly fixing production bugs, and optimizing solutions for global exchanges. I take full ownership of the system lifecycle, from design to tuning. Checkout my GitHub for my open-sourced projects.

Experience

  • CTO / Co-Founder at Quomptrade
    Jun 2025 - Present · 1 yr 1 mo

    - Building Ultra-Low Latency, Venue and Instrument agnostic, Trading Platform with reliable performance to minimize your monitoring headaches. - Developed RMSs for crypto-trading.

  • Trading Platform Lead at Algoquant
    Oct 2024 - May 2025 · 8 mos

    - Built ultra-low latency IOC trading platform achieving sub-microsecond tick-to-order latency with integrated OMS, RMS, and exchange connectivity for institutional trading - Modernized build infrastructure by implementing Conan 2.0 dependency management, ensuring reproducible builds across distributed trading systems - Enhanced performance observability through Tracy-based instrumentation profiling, enabling real-time bottleneck identification and system optimization - Architected event-driven trading systems using modern C++20 features, delivering consistent sub-microsecond execution for high-frequency trading strategies - Optimized system performance across critical trading paths, resolving latency issues and improving overall platform stability

  • Sr. Engineer (Trading Systems) at Gemini
    Dec 2023 - Aug 2024 · 9 mos

    - Led critical system migration from Scala to C++ for match-engine and ledger services. - Developed enterprise messaging infrastructure using Kafka with custom C++ bindings (librdkafka++) for real-time audit trails and regulatory compliance - Improved code quality metrics by increasing unit test coverage from 20% to 65% across data publishing infrastructure, mentoring team on testing best practices - Built UM-based microservices for internal trade administration tooling, streamlining operational workflows - Resolved production issues including packet loss and synchronization problems in high-throughput trading environments

  • C++ Developer (Low Latency Execution Engine) at Morgan Stanley
    Jun 2021 - Oct 2023 · 2 yrs 5 mos

    - Engineered smart order routers (SORs) for LATAM exchanges (Bovespa, BMV, TSX) achieving consistent ~27μs median latency across international markets - Implemented regulatory compliance systems including Beneficiary Ownership Check (BOC) logic for wash trade detection and self-cross prevention - Optimized system-level performance by identifying and resolving queuing issues that impacted latency in state-maintenance operations for trading systems - Built comprehensive testing framework using Python & Testplan, creating simulation suite that automates 200+ exchange scenarios for system validation - Delivered enterprise-grade solutions using C++14, GCC, Bazel build systems on RHEL infrastructure for global investment banking operations

  • C++ Developer (Low latency Trading Platform) at Edelweiss Financial Services
    May 2019 - Jun 2021 · 2 yrs 2 mos

    - Maintained high-performance DMA trading platform achieving ~200ns roundtrip latency (excluding network), supporting institutional direct market access - Developed network observability tools including .pcap-based latency profiler using libpcap++ for real-time performance monitoring and analysis - Built regulatory-compliant exchange gateways for MCX (Multi Commodity Exchange) and NSE with updated encryption specifications - Created institutional RMS dashboards providing real-time trading limits and risk management controls for compliance teams - Implemented market data simulation system for strategy testing, streaming market data into compressed binary files using zstd compression with streaming replay capabilities