Summary
Utsav Gupta is a systems-focused software engineer with 11 years of experience building latency-sensitive trading platforms and telecom protocol stacks, currently working on systematic trading at Citadel Securities in Hong Kong. He brings deep C/C++ expertise honed at Tower Research Capital where he architected high-performance crypto market data and order-entry systems, and at Samsung where he optimized 4G-LTE MAC layer algorithms. Comfortable across OS/kernel-level concerns, embedded systems, and high-speed networking (HTTP/2, custom RPC), he specializes in reliability, recovery tooling and automation that shave milliseconds and reduce operational risk. An IIT Kanpur alumnus with a strong academic record, he combines rigorous engineering discipline with hands-on optimisation for HFT environments. Colleagues describe him as continuously iterating on his craft—“Updating Day by Day”—which shows up in pragmatic tooling and repeatable test automation he delivers.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Maths Science, 94.6%, Maths Science, 94.6% at Maharshi Vidya Mandir (Senior Secondary)
Christ Church Boys Higher Seconday
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur