Hi, I'm Pradeep.
I'm a software engineer in Bengaluru. For 13+ years I've built the backend and data plumbing behind banks, brokerages, hotels and airlines.
Right now I'm a Software Engineer III in JPMorgan Chase's Corporate & Investment Bank, building post-trade settlement services with Spring Boot, Kafka, Spark and Airflow on AWS. Before that I was at Fidelity Investments, and before that at Mindtree (now LTIMindtree), working on systems for Marriott and SITA.
Outside work I swim freestyle (I used to race at state level), draw with pencils, play tennis-ball cricket in my residential society (a decent batsman who also bowls right-arm medium), and read the Indian markets more closely than is probably healthy. In my spare time I explore the latest tech and occasionally build things, a few of which end up on GitHub.
The best way to reach me is the contact form below, or find me on LinkedIn, GitHub or X.
Timeline
the short version- until 2006Schooling in Manipal and Udupi · Madhava Kripa School, Manipal (up to 7th) · T.A. Pai English Medium High School, Kunjibettu (8th – 10th)
Where it all started, all the way to the 10th standard board exams.
- 2006 – 2008Pre-University Course (PUC) · MGM College, Kunjibettu, Udupi
Two years of pre-university before engineering.
- 2008 – 2012B.E., Computer Science and Engineering · Canara Engineering College, Bantwal
Where the habit of pulling systems apart started.
- 2013 – 2016Mindtree (now LTIMindtree) · Software Engineer, for SITA
Java SOAP services for airline systems, built test-first. Downtime here shows up as a traveller stuck at a check-in desk.
- 2017 – 2018Mindtree (now LTIMindtree) · Senior Software Engineer, for Marriott International
Built a Kafka-based booking platform from scratch with Play Framework and Akka, plus Hadoop pipelines through the hotel merger.
- 2018 – 2022Fidelity Investments · Lead Software Engineer
Asset-management compliance systems, including moving a core module from on-prem to AWS.
- 2022 – nowJPMorgan Chase & Co. · Software Engineer III, Corporate & Investment Bank
High-availability services for post-trade calculation and settlement, plus the data pipelines behind them.
Off the clock
the non-computer partsSwimming
Freestyle. Raced at state level, and the pool is still where I think best.
Cricket
A decent right-hand bat who also bowls right-arm medium. We play soft tennis-ball cricket in my residential society, and CricHeroes calls me an accumulator and a wildcard, which is fair. My stats on CricHeroes
RHB · RAMMarkets
Indian equities through a TechnoFunda lens: fundamentals to pick, technicals to time.
Pencil sketching
Graphite on paper. Look closely, then commit to the line.
HB for outlines, 6B for shadowsWrite to me
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