Deep Tavker
Performance Engineer at Flow Traders
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolDeep Tavker is a Performance Engineer at Flow Traders with a decade of experience applying mathematics, computational physics and trading systems expertise to low-latency financial technology. An IIT Bombay alumnus with research stints in algorithmic trading and computational physics, he has moved from trading operations into performance-focused engineering roles where optimization and reliability are paramount. He contributes to open-source scientific tooling—most notably modernizing test infrastructure for a Python Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics framework—demonstrating pragmatism in improving code quality and CI. Based in Amsterdam, he combines deep technical rigor with curiosity-driven hobbies like Formula 1, keyboard playing and speedcubing, reflecting a temperament for speed, precision and pattern recognition.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (9)
pytest10
python10
test-automation10
testing10
git9
cython7
web-framework4
app-framework4
scientific-computing4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
pypr/pysph
May 2017 - Jan 2018
A framework for Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics in Python
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:35 commits, 6 PRs, 9 comments in 8 months
Contributions summary:Deep primarily focused on migrating the testing framework from `nose` to `pytest`. This involved refactoring existing test files, replacing deprecated plugins, and updating import statements to align with `pytest`. They also introduced the use of `pytest.skip` and `pytest.importorskip` for conditional test execution and updated the project's requirements. Additionally, the user added tests for the `get_files` function and modified the `setup.py` file to enable linetracing.
python-libraryparticlepythonsolid-mechanicshigh-performance-computing
deeptavker/piNNS
Jun 2018 - May 2021
Contributions:111 commits, 48 pushes in 2 years 11 months
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