Summary
Pankaj More is a Staff Software Engineer with 15 years of experience blending quantitative research and low-latency systems engineering across top-tier finance and tech firms. After a long tenure at Goldman Sachs driving core quant and algo-trading platforms, he now focuses on Ads and monetization infrastructure at Meta, bringing production-grade performance and statistical rigor to large-scale systems. He holds a dual B.Tech/M.Tech in Computer Science from IIT Kanpur and has research roots in concurrency testing and compiler tooling from INRIA, a background that informs his careful approach to correctness in concurrent, high-throughput code. A founder-turned-engineer, he pairs product intuition from an early crowdsourcing startup with deep hands-on expertise in optimization and trading workflows. Based in Menlo Park, he’s comfortable moving between research, systems design, and mission-critical delivery in latency-sensitive domains.
15 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur