Summary
Mohit Soni is a seasoned software leader with 13 years of experience building front-office trading and research platforms, currently heading the Semi-Sys Trading and Research Platform at Citadel Securities in New York. He blends low-latency distributed systems, alt-data ingestion, and AI-driven research tooling to deliver production-grade trading infrastructure. A former tech lead at Box, Mesosphere and PayPal, he has deep expertise in containerization, cloud engineering and stateful systems, and co-founded the Apache Myriad project as an active ASF committer. Mohit pairs hands-on engineering with product-savvy leadership and an MBA from Columbia Business School, enabling him to translate complex research needs into scalable, operational systems. An underappreciated strength is his track record of moving research prototypes into front-office production at scale.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Master of Business Administration - MBA at Columbia Business School
B.Tech Computer Science, B.Tech Computer Science at Vellore Institute of Technology