Dhruv Shekhawat
Vice President at Morgan Stanley
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolDhruv Shekhawat is a systems-focused engineering leader with 10 years of experience building and optimizing low-latency trading infrastructure at Morgan Stanley, now serving as Vice President. He combines a Columbia MS in Computer Science with hands-on expertise in real-time systems, network protocol research, and GUI tooling from earlier roles. Known for doggedly hunting elusive software bugs, he applies the latest low-latency optimizations while driving developer productivity improvements across teams. His background includes academic research using ns-3 to switch transport protocols at runtime and teaching cloud computing and Python, reflecting a strong grounding in both theory and pedagogy. Based in New York, he blends operational rigor with continuous learning to deliver high-performance, production-critical systems.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and ScienceMaster’s Degree, Computer Science, Master’s Degree, Computer Science at Columbia University in the City of New YorkHigh School, Science & Maths, High School, Science & Maths at Army Public School, Pune
English, Hindi
Stackoverflow
77reputation
12kreached
1answer
8questions
Github Skills (28)
1c10
tla9
ssa9
irc-server9
parsing9
gift9
irc9
irc-protocol9
real-time-systems8
sampling8
performance-counters7
python7
html6
jupyter-notebook6
flask6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
dhruvshekhawat/Xpedite
Jul 2019 - Oct 2019
A profiler written in C++/Python for developers to profile and optimize performance of ultra low latency/real time systems
Contributions:102 pushes, 8 branches in 3 months
pythonultra-low-latencylatencyc-plus-plusultra
dhruvshekhawat/Unibs_ns3_modified-files
Nov 2015 - Sep 2016
Contributions:29 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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