Summary
Rishi Raj is a Lead Tech at The D. E. Shaw Group with 10 years of experience designing and optimizing trading and analytics systems from front-office R&D to production. He progressed through technical roles at D. E. Shaw after earlier internships and open-source work, including a GSoC project that produced a deployed XMPP compliance testing web service. Comfortable across backend engineering, data-driven analytics, and low-latency trading stacks, he focuses on turning research-grade ideas into reliable, high-performance systems. Based in Hyderabad, he brings a pragmatic engineering mindset shaped by both industry internships (Amazon Alexa Data Services) and community-driven projects, demonstrating an ability to ship useful infrastructure that others can run and visualize.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra