Software engineer · Backend & distributed systems

Hello, I'm

Samaksh Gulati.

I build reliable systems for high-stakes work.

At Shell, I engineer fault-tolerant workflows behind global trading operations. Beyond work, I build security and AI platforms that make complex decisions faster, safer, and easier to explain.

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10,000+trades supported daily

30+repositories standardized

<30 mincross-service diagnosis

557/sverified event throughput

01 / EXPERIENCE

Engineering where correctness matters.

Trading & Supply

Shell

Software Engineer

July 2023 — PresentBengaluru, India

Building and hardening event-driven systems that support global trading workflows across crude, refined products, LNG, gas, and power.

10,000+

trades supported daily through fault-isolated Python, Kafka, and SQL Server workflows.

<30 min

cross-service diagnosis after standardizing tracing and correlation across 30+ repositories.

2× releases

by cutting development and regression time approximately 50% and strengthening deployment confidence.

50% fewer

production issues and support tickets after React and TypeScript data-quality improvements.

Global derivatives

Futures First

Trading Market Analyst Intern

Jan — June 2023Gurugram, India

Combined market judgment with software to turn multi-year data into live, decision-ready signals.

100+

quantitative strategies researched and backtested across multi-year market data.

10+ live

strategies advanced into use across cotton, cocoa, sugar, and Brent futures.

5+ markets

monitored concurrently through real-time scanners, alerts, and research pipelines.

1 day

research turnaround, reduced from one week while supporting about $40K monthly trading volume.

02 / SELECTED PROJECTS

Systems built end to end.

Production-minded projects where architecture, product decisions, performance, and failure handling are all part of the same problem.

Security incident triage & response

CIRT Lens

A multi-tenant platform that turns noisy telemetry into auditable, explainable incident decisions without sacrificing throughput or tenant isolation.

Source Live product

557 events/ssustained ingestion

119 msp95 latency

5,080 in 28 mscorrelation run

4 telemetry sources

Idempotent stream

Detection + correlation

Two-person approval

FastAPIReactPostgreSQLRedis StreamsRBAC

AI trading operations platform

AstraQuant Enterprise

An event-driven research and paper-execution platform that keeps autonomous strategy workflows deterministic, reviewable, and isolated from direct order placement.

Source

11 modulesbackend surface

20strategy templates

39automated test files

Research signal

Transactional outbox

Idempotent consumer

Guarded paper execution

Spring BootFastAPIKafkaPostgreSQLKubernetes

03 / CAPABILITIES

From API contract to production signal.

I work across the full path of a backend feature: model the domain, protect invariants, ship it, observe it, and make recovery predictable.

Backend engineering

Production services and APIs built for correctness, clarity, and sustained operational load.

JavaPythonSpring BootFastAPIRESTgRPC

Distributed systems

Event-driven workflows designed to survive retries, partial failures, and concurrent processing.

KafkaRedis StreamsIdempotencyOutboxAsync processing

Data & infrastructure

Practical systems thinking across storage, containers, delivery pipelines, and cloud operations.

PostgreSQLSQL ServerRedisAWSDockerKubernetes

Reliability & security

Traceable, testable software with observability and access controls treated as product features.

OpenTelemetryPrometheusGrafanaOAuth 2.0JWTRBAC

04 / FOUNDATION

Education & perspective.

Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology

B.E. in Computer Science & Business Systems

2019 — 2023 · Patiala, India

My background in both engineering and live markets shapes how I build: understand the risk, make the state explicit, and design the system so one bad event cannot become everyone’s problem.

05 / LET’S TALK

Looking for my next hard problem.

I’m open to SDE-2 opportunities in backend engineering, distributed systems, developer infrastructure, and AI platforms—especially where reliability and scale are core to the product.

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