Soumya Basu
Venture Partner at FlatironX
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSoumya Basu is a venture partner and serial entrepreneur with 12 years of experience building high-performance distributed systems and reshaping how exchanges and trading operate in capital markets. He founded and led Vigil Markets as CEO and previously co‑founded and served as CTO of bloXroute Labs, applying deep systems expertise to scalable fintech and crypto infrastructure. A Cornell CS PhD and former research/engineering intern at Microsoft, VMware and Google, he blends rigorous academic research with hands‑on product and engineering leadership. Based in New York, he focuses on early‑stage fintech investments with a global lens and strong ties to India. Less obvious: his track record spans both academic teaching roles and production systems startups, giving him a rare ability to translate cutting‑edge distributed systems research into deployable market infrastructure. He’s open to conversations about novel exchange architectures and crypto trading innovations.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
EECS Computer science, EECS Computer science at University of California, BerkeleyDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Cornell University
Github Skills (10)
python-client10
debugging10
python9
jupyter-notebook9
pypy9
propagation3
blockchain-network3
blockchain-platform3
blockchain2
scale2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
soumyabasu/soumyabasu.github.io
Jan 2016 - Mar 2016
Contributions:1 push in 2 months
kevinnegy/rota-ver
Sep 2019 - Sep 2019
Contributions:1 PR, 3 pushes in 7 days
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