Varshit Battu

VP at Goldman Sachs

United Kingdom

About

Senior software engineer with 6+ years of industry experience. Currently a part of SMM Engineering team, mainly focusing on Portfolio Trading for EMEA. I mainly worked on the credit side i.e bonds, index etc, and I build/maintain platforms that consume inquiries electronically and platforms that help stream out prices. Touched upon a bit on ETFs and ETF Options as well

Experience

  • Goldman Sachs (4 yrs)
    • Vice President
      Nov 2024 - Present · 1 yr 8 mos

      Overseeing all things PT for EMEA. Building a real-time Java-based pricing engine for PTs. Improving the stack along the way.

    • Vice President
      Jan 2024 - Oct 2024 · 10 mos

      Liased with multiple venues to enable e-connectivity for portfolio inquires to make quoting seamless for traders, reducing manual steps. Developed an abstract library to facilitate seamless integration and management of critical automated trading checks for Index Algo Pricing.

    • Associate
      Jul 2022 - Jan 2024 · 1 yr 7 mos

      Enhanced a bond data retrieval service managing ~1M requests/week by implementing key features like permits & rate-limiting, reducing undesirable traffic by 60%. Led the integration of pricing infrastructure for ETFs and EM bonds by collaborating with more than 3 cross-functional teams, 2 BUs, compliance, and traders. Liaised with the Equities BU to set up a new flow for Credit ETF Options, increasing revenue of credit desk.

  • Plivo (3 yrs 1 mo)
    • SDE-2
      Jan 2021 - Jul 2022 · 1 yr 7 mos

      Designed a highly available, fault-tolerant architecture for queued calls, increasing platform uptime by ~20%. Took initiative to integrate PGBouncer to help scale DB connectivity by ~30%. Led a routing service development utilizing Redis to reduce latency by ~20%. Moved ~3.4B records to Athena, making historical data accessible to customers. Developed a cost-effective microservice that used AWS-S3 to serve ~4TB recordings/day.

    • SDE-1
      Jul 2019 - Jan 2021 · 1 yr 7 mos

      Partitioned a metadata table with ~1 billion rows for scalability. Collaborated with 3 teams to decouple tables from the central database, maintaining SLAs of our platform. Set up an Elastic-Logstash-Kibana infrastructure for logging and proactive alerting. Maintained services/pipelines owned by the team and handled customer support issues.

  • IIIT Hyderabad (Greater Hyderabad Area)
    • Teaching Assistant
      Jan 2019 - May 2019 · 5 mos

      Computer Networks

    • Teaching Assistant
      Aug 2018 - Dec 2018 · 5 mos

      Structural System Analysis and Design(SSAD)

  • Software Engineering Intern at Liv.ai
    May 2018 - Jul 2018 · 3 mos

  • Teaching Assistant at IIIT Hyderabad
    Aug 2017 - Dec 2017 · 5 mos

    Information Technology - 1