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Kartikaya Sharma

I’m a backend engineer with 4+ years of experience in Erlang, Elixir, Python, and Node.js, specializing in distributed systems and scalable infrastructure. I’ve built high-performance solutions in fintech and AI projects, with a focus on reliability, observability, and system design.

  • Role

    Quantitative Researcher & Developer

  • Years of Experience

    3.2 years

  • Professional Portfolio

    View here

Skillsets

  • Compute Engine
  • react
  • Scikit-learn
  • App Engine
  • C
  • C++
  • Cloud Functions
  • Cloud Pub/Sub
  • Cloud Storage
  • Python
  • GitHub Actions
  • Google Cloud Platform
  • Mixpanel
  • MySQL
  • Prometheus
  • SciPy
  • Seaborn
  • Docker
  • PostgreSQL
  • pandas
  • NumPy
  • Node.js
  • New Relic
  • MongoDB
  • Kubernetes
  • JavaScript
  • Java
  • Go
  • Git
  • Firestore
  • Express.js
  • Erlang
  • Elixir

Professional Summary

3.2Years
  • Dec, 2025 - Present 8 months

    Founder

    StackSmiths Private Limited
  • Jun, 2022 - Jan, 2023 7 months

    Back End Developer

    OkCredit
  • Jul, 2021 - Feb, 2022 7 months

    Back End Developer

    OkCredit
  • Aug, 2018 - May, 2019 9 months

    Volunteer

    NSS, BITS Pilani
  • Aug, 2019 - Jul, 2020 11 months

    Executive Committee Member

    NSS, BITS Pilani

Applications & Tools Known

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    Javascript

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    React

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    Python

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    Node.js

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    Elixir

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    Java

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    MongoDB

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    Docker

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    C++

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    Erlang

Work History

3.2Years

Founder

StackSmiths Private Limited
Dec, 2025 - Present 8 months

Back End Developer

OkCredit
Jun, 2022 - Jan, 2023 7 months

Back End Developer

OkCredit
Jul, 2021 - Feb, 2022 7 months
    Designed and built customer engagement features to improve retention and reactivation; computed credit risk scores and implemented a defaulter marking system; analyzed user funnel data via Mixpanel; built and maintained real-time message delivery system using Pub/Sub architecture over MQTT with EMQ X broker; developed scalable GoLang APIs; implemented production observability using New Relic and Prometheus; contributed to backend infrastructure improvements.

Executive Committee Member

NSS, BITS Pilani
Aug, 2019 - Jul, 2020 11 months

Volunteer

NSS, BITS Pilani
Aug, 2018 - May, 2019 9 months

Major Projects

1Projects

Volatility Prediction ETH Implied Vol (t+10s)

    Refined and organized ETH 1s order book and OHLCV data with peer-asset alignment and outlier capping; engineered microstructure and realized-volatility signals with session/regime flags and cross-asset spillovers; trained a Voting ensemble of LightGBM and XGBoost, achieving R2 = 0.4896 and Pearson r = 0.704.

Education

  • Bachelor of Engineering (Hons.) Computer Science | Minor in Finance

    Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani (2022)