Vikas Vishwakarma is a Principal Engineer with over a decade of experience building high-performance systems in finance, electronic trading, distributed computing and Big Data. Based in Hyderabad, he has progressed through technical leadership roles at Salesforce—spanning Senior Member of Technical Staff to Principal Engineer—and earlier led market data and exchange connectivity projects at D.E. Shaw. He specializes in performance analysis and optimization for latency-sensitive trading gateways and large-scale BigData platforms, bringing practical cross-platform expertise from hardware to distributed software stacks. Vikas combines deep academic grounding from IIT Delhi (M.Tech) with hands-on delivery in production trading systems, and is known for translating complex performance problems into measurable, repeatable engineering improvements.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
M.Tech, Computer Technology, M.Tech, Computer Technology at Indian Institute of Tech, Delhi
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Vikas Vishwakarma - Principal Engineer at Salesforce