Raayan Pillai
Credit Trader at Virtu Financial
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRaayan Pillai is a seasoned technologist-turned-credit trader based in New York with 13 years of experience building and shipping software for financial markets. After software engineering roles at Goldman Sachs and crypto platform Gemini, he now applies that engineering discipline to trading credit markets at Virtu Financial. A Rust enthusiast ("rustacean"), he blends low-latency systems thinking with market intuition to deliver robust, production-grade trading tools. His background spans internships at FINRA and early engineering at startups, giving him a rare view across regulation, trading infrastructure, and emerging crypto markets.
13 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree B.S. in Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree B.S. in Computer Science at University of Rochester
English
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Github Skills (41)
geocoder7
concurrent7
persistence7
lock-free7
swift6
playframework6
geocoding6
generic-programming6
formal-methods6
akka6
akka-http6
python6
scala6
tree6
ios6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
SigmaChiGammaPi/sigmachigammapi.github.io
Apr 2016 - Jul 2019
Contributions:78 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 4 months
raayan/raayanpillai.com
Jul 2019 - May 2021
My personal website, built with Jekyll
Contributions:4 PRs, 74 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 9 months
jekyll
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