Md Asad Azam

Software Developer with 3+ years of experience building and optimizing low-latency trading systems. Strong background in modern C++ including concurrency, memory management, and template-based design in latency-sensitive production environments.

Software Developer at ION Group (2023-01 – Present)

• Worked on front-office Capital Markets (FX/FI) trading systems handling real-time price updates and full order life-cycle, processing 10,000+ market updates/sec.
• Developed scalable backend services each designed as an independent financial subsystem, applying RAII and smart pointers to enforce deterministic resource management and eliminate memory leaks.
• Built high-performance services using move semantics, template metaprogramming, and lock-free data structures to minimize allocations and reduce latency on the hot path.
• Reduced average gateway latency from ∼1 ms to ∼0.5 ms by replacing a blocking queue with a ring-buffer, reducing contention and improving inter-thread communication efficiency.
• Developed gateways to venues like BarX, EBS, Citi & LMAX, interacting via FIX and SBE protocols, used CRTP-based abstractions to share gateway logic with zero virtual dispatch overhead.
• Maintained complex services like pricing gateways and SmartOrderRouter for low-latency decision making, used cache-friendly data layouts and false-sharing avoidance to improve throughput.
• Developed internal stats processing tool using NumPy, Pandas and multithreading techniques which downloaded and processed GBs of stats within minutes, enabling the team to debug production issues faster.
• Developed internal tools for performance benchmarking and load simulation, integrating with Jenkins to benchmark services after each commit.
• Debugged critical production issues including race conditions, memory leaks, and latency spikes using Valgrind, AddressSanitizer, GDB, and custom profiling tooling.
• Automated testing by writing hundreds of tests for critical business processes, integrated with Jenkins and TeamCity CI/CD pipelines.

Software Developer Intern at HighRadius (2022-06 – 2022-12)

• Developed UI modules for enterprise workflows using React, Redux, TailwindCSS and HighCharts.
• Built REST APIs using Flask (Python) and interactive dashboards using React and JavaScript.
• Built data visualization dashboards for clients, improving operational monitoring.
• Managed infrastructure using AWS, Docker, Jenkins and Linux to support development and testing.

B.Tech in Information Technology – Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT) (2019-06 – 2023-06)

12th in PCM with Computer Science – Motilal Nehru Public School (2017-06 – 2019-06)