Mohan Patnam is a Tech Lead with 18+ years building and optimizing low-latency, large-scale trading systems across BuySide and SellSide firms, currently leading sequencer-based trading, ATS crossing engines, and multi-asset OMS work at Citadel. He brings deep UNIX/C++ expertise (Linux, AIX, Solaris) plus Python and JavaScript, and has extensive hands-on experience with KDB time-series stores, SQL/Sybase, Kafka/TIBCO/FIX messaging and proprietary multicast. Previously at Bloomberg he led refactors of legacy messaging and matching engines, managing backend systems that processed millions of daily messages and delivering scalable service-oriented designs. Comfortable in client-facing, managerial, and individual-contributor roles, he mentors teams and runs projects using Atlassian and Git workflows. A holder of an MS from IIT Madras and a Data Science certificate from Harvard Extension, he combines rigorous academic training with practical, production-grade trading infrastructure know-how. Notably, his career blends low-level network and OS proficiency with high-level algorithmic trading infrastructure—rarely found together at this depth.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Graduate Certificate Data Science, Graduate Certificate Data Science at Harvard Extension School
B.Tech Computer Science & Engg., B.Tech Computer Science & Engg. at Sri Venkateswara University
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Mohan Patnam - Tech Lead at Citadel Investment Group