Summary
Samar Kamat is a software engineering team lead with 11 years of experience building and modernizing market-facing financial systems, currently leading engineering teams at Bloomberg in New York. She combines deep domain knowledge from Barclays’ rates analytics and market-data work with hands-on delivery—designing high-performance analytics, yield-curve services, and automation that expanded product coverage. Known for translating client requirements into practical, reliable solutions, she emphasizes performance, accuracy, and maintainability while driving tooling and workflow improvements. A proactive fast learner and effective communicator, Samar mentors peers and has taught bond math internally, reflecting a knack for explaining complex quantitative concepts. Her background in electrical engineering from Cooper Union underpins a disciplined, systems-oriented approach to software design. She’s particularly focused on using modern technologies to make financial infrastructure faster, more stable, and more usable.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Electrical Engineering at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
John F Kennedy Memorial High School