Pushkar Mishra
Security Researcher at Nautech Systems
India
Summary
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Top SchoolPushkar Mishra is a security-focused systems engineer specializing in blockchain, low-latency trading infrastructure, and production security audits. With ~3 years of experience, he builds latency-critical Rust systems at Nautech Systems/NautilusTrader and has rewritten core trading components and Redis integrations to achieve multi‑times performance gains. He’s audited Substrate, Cosmos, EVM, and Cardano protocols, finding critical issues before deployment, and has delivered custom DeFi routing logic and a secure PostgreSQL proxy in freelance engagements. As an active open-source contributor, he extended Jaeger tracing tests and ported many technical indicators into the Rust-based NautilusTrader backtester, demonstrating both deep systems skills and domain knowledge in finance. Based in India, Pushkar blends pragmatic engineering with adversarial thinking to ship robust, scalable systems under pressure. An uncommon strength: he pairs low-level performance tuning with formalized audit practices, bridging speed and security in real-world deployments.
3 years of coding experience
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and Science
English, Hindi
Github Skills (26)
unit-testing10
observability10
testing10
distributed-tracing10
finance10
analyse10
go-testing10
data-structure10
go10
statistical-models10
jaeger10
data-structures10
rust10
algorithmic-trading10
modeling10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
jaegertracing/jaeger
Sep 2023 - Jul 2024
CNCF Jaeger, a Distributed Tracing Platform
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
Backend Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:89 reviews, 21 PRs, 159 comments in 10 months
Contributions summary:Pushkar primarily contributed to the codebase by adding and modifying unit tests. These tests were added to the `/pkg/version` directory, which includes HTTP server handlers, and version command line interface. Further contributions include adding empty tests for the examples and the `cmd/jaeger/internal/exporters/storageexporter` to verify the Goroutine leak. The user replaced `goleak.VerifyTestMain` with `testutils.VerifyGoLeaks` to improve test suite reliability and clean up.
distributedtracingjaegertracingobservabilitycncf
nautechsystems/nautilus_trader
Jan 2024 - Mar 2025
A high-performance algorithmic trading platform and event-driven backtester
Role in this project:Backend Developer & System Architect
Backend Developer & System ArchitectContributions:5 reviews, 52 PRs, 17 pushes in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Pushkar's contributions primarily involve porting various technical analysis indicators to the Rust programming language. This included implementing the Chande Momentum Oscillator (CMO), Variable Index Dynamic Average (VIDYA), Bias, Volume Weighted Average Price (VWAP), Vertical Horizontal Filter (VHF), Klinger Volume Oscillator (KVO), Directional Movement (DM), Archer Moving Averages Trends (AMAT), Swings, Bollinger Bands (BB), Volatility Ratio (VR), Stochastics, Pressure, Psychological Line (PSL), Commodity Channel Index (CCI), Linear Regression (LR), Donchian Channel (DC), Keltner Channel (KC), Keltner Position (KP), Relative Volatility Index (RVI), and Rate of Change (ROC). The user also contributed to adding markdown build support to Sphinx. These changes demonstrate a focus on expanding the platform's technical analysis capabilities within the Rust ecosystem.
algorithmic-trading-enginepythonbacktesting-trading-strategiescrypto-tradingevent-driven
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