Chief Technology Officer
Mumbai
Founded and strategically scaled Silverleaf Capital Services (silverleafcaps.com), an ML-driven quantitative and high-frequency trading firm which handles ₹20 billion in daily trading volumes and consistently delivers over 80% annual returns on capital with an ultra-low risk profile (drawdown < 3%). Led a team of 20 engineers and scientists, cultivating a culture of continuous mentorship and fostering an environment that resulted in less than 2% annual attrition in a highly competitive market. Through innovative trading strategies and operational excellence, achieved a 50% CAGR in both revenue and profits for five consecutive yearsEngineered a robust, low-latency (<2 µs) trading infrastructure with connectivity to over 10 global financial exchanges, maintaining an uptime of over 99.98%. Through decisive technical decision-making, transformed backtesting and simulation frameworks to achieve a 100x increase in testing velocity while reducing costs by 90%. In a pioneering move for the Indian market, guided the utilization of FPGA hardware to achieve ultra-low latencies (<750 ns), thereby setting a new industry standardDeveloped state-of-the-art deep learning models (LSTM, 1DConv) for stock trading. Applied reinforcement learning methodologies on approximately 300 million data points, achieved results which vastly outperformed industry benchmarks. Implemented a sustainable model-improvement pipeline capable of adapting to highly adversarial market conditions, thus positioning the firm as a leader in machine learning-based financial strategies