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DHRUV GARG

DHRUV GARG

Hong Kong

Summary

Highly efficient AWS certified Software Engineer with 5+ years of experience in software engineering implementing DevOps practices globally across fin-tech, eCommerce and high frequency trading domains. Showcasing success working on multiple projects in parallel that focuses on development, operational excellence and automation using Python & DevOps tools. Proven ability to work efficiently in a fast-paced, collaborative environment and deliver high-quality work.

Overview

6
6
years of professional experience

Work History

Software Reliability Engineer - III

Tower Research Capital
08.2024 - Current
  • Successfully led the efforts to pick the development efforts as part of reference data space(altogether new vertical) swiftly thereby reducing day to day production issues by over 50%
  • Leveled up in tackling production issues more efficiently and wrapping up all stuff before India business hours thereby boosting overall team productivity
  • Increased contribution as part of production code repo on day to day basis
  • Driving team towards adopting CI/CD space while bringing Gitlab expertise to the team and in general secret management via Hashicorp Vault.

Software Reliability Engineer - III

Tower Research Capital
05.2023 - 08.2024
  • Set a benchmark in the team w.r.t streamlining development and operational processes across Post Trade team - drafting software deployment procedures from scratch and inculcate software engineering practices in a short stint
  • Implement a wide horizon of automations across the team thereby leading to increased speed of trade ingestion into the database + less human intervention eventually helping business save costs by good margins
  • Smoothly deal with clearing brokers while making sure all trade data level requirements are met at all times with 100% success rate
  • Trained myself to work in a very fast paced HFT environment while wearing multiple hats and making sure all development and operational requirements are met. This involved rapid context switching and prioritization/de-prioritization as per business needs.

Senior DevOps Engineer

To The New
03.2023 - 05.2023

Client: eLocal USA LLC

  • Worked on standardizing Terraform setup and delivering a project of controlling AWS SSO access via Azure AD with infrastructure being managed via Terraform
  • In a short stint, make new client comfortable enough to continue the critical project with the firm

DevOps Engineer- III

Amazon
11.2021 - 03.2023
  • Designing multiple tools using Python, REST APIs, Lambda, CloudFormation, and VPC endpoints to save team bandwidth and costs following Amazon principles of proper design discussions and review
  • Amazon Go: Utilized expertise in Java, Python, AWS, and other Amazon internal tools to successfully automate a significant portion of store infra provisioning, resulting in improved operational efficiency and cost saving. Played a crucial role in the infra deployment of physical stores utilizing the JWO (Just Walk Out, most advanced shopping technology) while learning Artificial Intelligence
  • Amazon ORCA: Demonstrated leadership as a founding member of a Tier-1 organization, successfully implementing DevOps practices within a team, on which multiple teams across Amazon depends to power their workflows, ultimately powering Amazon dot com

Senior Software Engineer- L1

Gemini Solutions
06.2018 - 04.2021
  • Worked as a software engineer for two top business clients for the firm - Pacific Investment Mangement Corporation and Beacon Platform Inc.
  • Got promoted every year starting i.e 3 promotions in 3 years. Started as an intern with the firm in 7th semester of under graduatio


Pacific Investment Management Corporation(PIMCO)

  • Managed to deliver a project of Powershell automation to save toil that added a lot of value to the business while ensuring engineers have a smooth production on call.
  • Continuously automated a lot of toil leveraging Python and REST API's to promote operational excellence & save costs by ensuring we don't add engineers in linear fashion
  • Worked as a key member of the DevOps team helping with firmwide monitoring setup using tools like Splunk Cloud, Solarwinds, AppDynamics & enforce monitoring standards at ground level
  • Owned the offshore platform team for Pivotal Cloud Foundry and led efforts to set up the team while dealing with infrastructure, operations, and software engineers to understand requirements and implement DevOps practices
  • Achieved a significant increase in platform stability and adoption by over 20-30% through the automation of workloads using GitLab, Python, Splunk, and CI/CD pipelines
  • Proposed and implemented a design and automated data setup which helped the firm bring data from Inforeach vendor and feed it to the Beacon platform, resulting in added value to the firm's trading practices


Beacon Platform Inc.

  • Founding member of the offshore DevOps team for Beacon.io
  • And played a key role in the successful domain builds for global financial institutions
  • Achieved a significant increase in global customer satisfaction by over 20% through the successful implementation of DevOps practices and processes

Education

B. Tech - Computer Science & Engineering

Chitkara University
Chandigarh
08.2019

Class 12th - Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics

C.B.S.E Board
Chandigarh
05.2015

Class 10th -

C.B.S.E Board
Ambala
05.2013

Skills

  • Python Programming
  • Core Java
  • DevOps & SRE
  • Data Structures & Algorithms
  • AWS Cloud
  • Docker

  • Gitlab CI
  • Jenkins CI
  • Monitoring Tools
  • Scripting & Automation
  • Linux OS
  • Problem Solving

Accomplishments

  • LPI Linux Essentials (01/2022)
  • AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (08/2020 - 08/2025)
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate (08/2022 - 08/2025)

Personal Information

Nationality: Indian

Hobbies and Interests

  • Cooking
  • Researching about cars
  • Playing badminton
  • Reading books

Projects

Doctor on call, Android application that lists the doctors and their relevant information category wise. Built the app from scratch in college and deployed on Google Play.

Languages

Hindi
Native language
English
Proficient
C2

Timeline

Software Reliability Engineer - III

Tower Research Capital
08.2024 - Current

Software Reliability Engineer - III

Tower Research Capital
05.2023 - 08.2024

Senior DevOps Engineer

To The New
03.2023 - 05.2023

DevOps Engineer- III

Amazon
11.2021 - 03.2023

Senior Software Engineer- L1

Gemini Solutions
06.2018 - 04.2021

B. Tech - Computer Science & Engineering

Chitkara University

Class 12th - Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics

C.B.S.E Board

Class 10th -

C.B.S.E Board
DHRUV GARG