Avtar Raikmo
Deployed Engineer at LangChain
United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAvtar Raikmo is a technology leader and founder with a 20+ year trajectory in engineering leadership, product delivery and AI research, currently co-founding Cue as CTO while advising stealth startups. He has led large engineering organisations at Morningstar, Meta and Hazelcast—driving cloud-native platforms, market data systems and AR/AI-enabled mobile testing—and rebuilt critical trading and order management platforms at Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley. At Didymos he built agentic human-prediction and synthetic-data engines, marrying academic research with enterprise validation, and his recent open-source contributions to Hazelcast show hands-on skill maintaining cross-platform tests, YAML schema validation and secure serialization. Comfortable toggling between strategic leadership and code, he scales teams, architecture and ML research into production products. Based in the UK and a UCL computer science MSc, he combines startup grit with institutional-grade engineering rigor—and occasionally debugs platform tests to ensure Windows compatibility.
3 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
University College London
Github Skills (6)
javas10
java10
testing10
scalability9
distributed-systems9
yaml8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
hazelcast/hazelcast
Mar 2023 - Jan 2025
Hazelcast is a unified real-time data platform combining stream processing with a fast data store, allowing customers to act instantly on data-in-motion for real-time insights.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & QA Engineer
Backend Developer & QA EngineerContributions:3 reviews, 6 PRs, 7 pushes in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Avtar's contributions primarily involve bug fixes and test enhancements within the Hazelcast project. They addressed issues related to OS compatibility in testing by updating test code to function correctly on different operating systems, including Windows. They also fixed test failures and enhanced YAML configuration schema validation. Furthermore, the user deprecated portable serialization by making necessary changes in multiple configuration files and made adjustments to authentication processes, highlighting their involvement in maintaining code quality and addressing reported issues.
data-platformhazelcaststream-processingjavain-memory
hazelcast-guides/csharp-client-getting-started
Jul 2023 - Jul 2023
Hazelcast .NET client getting started guide
Contributions:1 review, 12 PRs, 19 pushes in 17 days
dotnethazelcast
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