About

<aside> <img src="/icons/code_gray.svg" alt="/icons/code_gray.svg" width="40px" /> An economist turned polyglot software engineer - interested in the interplay of tech, ethics, and markets. Led teams and built distributed services that serve millions.

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Contact

[email protected]

twitter.com/jindalrish

linkedin.com/in/rishabhjindal

github.com/raxosiris

Experience

Principal Software Engineer

*ein.finance, London & Milan (Dec 2020 - Present) | Fintech*

Tech I worked on: Python, Rust, PostgreSQL, Dgraph, Nats.io, Kubernetes, GCP

• Built Ein’s entire data infrastructure and backend to integrate, transform, and model terabytes of critical financial data from Factset, S&P, and LSEG/Refinitiv.
• Wrote Ein’s proprietary equity valuation model based on founder’s research to value, backtest, and create multi-scenario forecasting of over 1500 global equities.
• Improved legacy provider APIs and integrations e.g. Factset Formula API to transpile to modern code and cut our integration effort by 3 months. Delivered 15x improvement to S&P’s data-synchronisation speed.
• Generalist exec role in all aspects of the business - co-raised Ein’s funding round, brokered partnerships, handled recruitments, and automated 80% of all manual user touchpoints. Reached 14k followers, 4k subscribers, and 7% weekly growth within 12 months on the B2C platform.

Senior Backend Engineer

Synkd UK Ltd, London, U.K. (Dec 2019 - Present) | Adtech

Tech I worked on: Typescript, Node.js, Rust, Go, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Redis, React, VanillaJS, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, Alicloud, Cloudflare, Terraform

• Senior Backend Engineer (consulting) (Dec 2020 - Present)
• Lead Software Engineer (Dec 2019 - Dec 2020)

Founder / Software Engineer

Wolv Ltd, London, U.K. (Jan 2019 - Dec 2020) | SaaS/Consulting

Tech I worked on: Go, Typescript, Dgraph, PostgreSQL, Firebase, Kubernetes, GCP, Terraform

• Built Wolv - a B2B talent sharing platform to save companies and employees from layoffs during the early pandemic. Saved >£500k in costs within 6 months.
  • Won UKRI competition £75k+ for innovation in B2B SaaS.
  • Built integrations with Slack, Stripe, Discord, Github, and Jira to facilitate task-management and contract settling seamlessly within company’s existing flows.
  • Wrote an ad-hoc escrow system using Stripe Connect and Paybase. Wrote SDK for paybase and open-sourced it.