Summary
Alok Diwakar is a Senior Member of Technical Staff with 10 years of experience building low-latency, high-performance systems in C++, Core Java and Python across finance and cloud SaaS. He has driven trading infrastructure, market-data engines and execution systems at top-tier banks and hedge funds, and now focuses on scaling Revenue Cloud and AI infrastructure at Salesforce. His work spans exchange connectivity, matching engines, shared-memory transport and optimised memory allocators—features that reveal a deep systems-level focus beyond typical application engineering. Comfortable in both research-driven quant environments and large product orgs, he combines rigorous algorithmic thinking with pragmatic engineering for mission-critical services. Based in India, he pairs an IIT Bombay MTech background with a track record of squeezing latency and improving throughput in production at scale.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Intermediate/+2 Mathematics and Science, Intermediate/+2 Mathematics and Science at V.M College
Matriculation, Matriculation at P.P.P School
English, Hindi