Aradhya Khandelwal Email & Phone Number

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Leading the team of 9 responsible for all fixed income development at DESCO, consisting of 6 developers and 3 data analysts
• The role involves me wearing multiple hats, being an engineering, product, program, and project manager in one
• Received two fast-track promotions after demonstrating skill and reliability in a lean team
• Collaborated with the Fixed Income trading desk (managing $8B in assets) on short- and long-term strategic planning for adding value over all timeframes

• Spearheaded development of the proprietary fixed income fundamental analytics suite used across DESCO
• This business-critical library forms the backbone of analysis required for managing $12B+ of assets
• Contributed financial modelling and analytics for a variety of instruments, including bonds, linkers, treasury futures
• Executed a phased migration from the former to the modern library, while ensuring business continuity
• Led cross-functional collaboration with 8 groups, both… Show more
• Led cross-functional collaboration with 8 groups, both internal and external to the firm, operating across various regions worldwide, while engaging stakeholders such as traders, quants, and developers

Hyderabad, Telangana, India

• Engineered comprehensive software solutions for managing all aspects of fixed income trading
• End-to-end data pipelines for 1000+ markets
• Pre- and post-trade analytics, including visualisations
• Performant time-series data access for 40+ years of raw and derived market history
• Trade execution
• Regular reporting for trade management

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

• Implemented parallelised Bayesian optimisation to reduce execution costs of complex black box models
• Achieved 20% improvement in results against the formerly used grid-search approach, in fewer iterations

Noida Area, India

• Improved time and space efficiency of log file analysis by 40% and 60% respectively using Python scripts.
• Observed and gained insights into Paytm Payments Gateway’s workflow and related technologies.

Society For Student Mess Services (SSMS), Pilani

• Involved in end-to-end management of all aspects of a mess system worth upwards of Rs. 150 Million, serving 4000+ students, along with long term policy planning, employee and financial management
• Part of a 4 member body nominated by the Director, BITS Pilani, along with 10 elected representatives.
• Worked on negotiations with Sodexo, an International Food Services Provider, including menu planning and price negotiations, and also managed student feedback.
• Drafted and… Show more
• Drafted and implemented contracts of service worth more than 20 Million Rupees each. Show less

• Spearheaded a team of 9 people responsible for handling and operating the sound equipment at BITS Pilani.
• Ensured smooth and timely operations during the cultural, technical and sports festivals of BITS Pilani, some of the biggest such fests across India.
• Gained and imparted in-depth technical knowledge of high end sound equipment, and managed inventory.

Ambernath, Thane

• A 3-month long summer internship as part of the Practice School programme at BITS Pilani
• Developed an information sharing online portal where employees could upload images and text to be shared on various screens placed around the office.
• Users had the option of choosing which screens to share on.
• Extensive use of technologies such as Django, Python, Javascript and HTML+CSS

Bachelor Of Engineering - Be (Hons.), Computer Science, 8.23 Cgpa

Activities and Societies: Coordinator of the Department of Sounds, English Language Activities Society

Class 12Th, 94.6%

Class 10Th, 10 Cgpa