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Sushmit S.
Technical skills
About
Senior engineer and technology leader with 13+ years building real-time, distributed data infrastructure — ingestion, processing, and execution under latency pressure — and the AI layer on top of it. Experience spans large-scale data analytics, market data, fleet telemetry, geospatial datasets, and public-sector spatial analytics.
Currently CTO of an AI-powered fintech and trading platform and fractional CTO of an interactive gaming platform, alongside independent consulting engagements. At the trading platform, Rust and Go systems process 100K+ market signals per second at sub-millisecond latency with 99.9% uptime. Expert in Rust and Go (Golang) for high-throughput concurrent systems and microservices;
Python for AI/ML, data engineering, and geospatial pipelines; TypeScript/JavaScript across React and Angular frontends. 100K+ lines of production Rust with zero runtime panics; data pipelines handling 1TB+ per day.
Founding engineer of a healthcare spatial-analytics platform now deployed across the UK, and founding team member of a blockchain product that raised $200K from users. Technical leadership experience hiring, mentoring, and setting engineering standards for a 5-person team. Multiple first-prize wins and three development grants across the Hedera, Polkadot, and Nillion ecosystems.
Working remotely since 2014, delivering for teams across the United States, United Kingdom, UAE, Japan, Hong Kong, and Australia.
Work Experience
Fleet telematics analytics platform — infrastructure and data engineering
● Own all cloud infrastructure, deployment, and observability for a Python data platform ingesting vehicle telemetry from Geotab, Samsara, and other telematics providers, delivering operational insight to fleet customers
● Built the orchestration layer in Prefect — scheduled and event-driven data pipelines across multiple third-party APIs with retry, backfill, and failure isolation
● Provision and manage AWS infrastructure as code using Terraform, with Docker-based
AI, fintech, and trading platform — building AI apps, payment systems, mobile apps, and cross-chain trading infrastructure. Live in private release pending licensing.
● Lead engineering across the full product suite as CTO — AI applications, payment systems, iOS/mobile apps, and cross-chain trading infrastructure — setting technical direction and architecture for the platform
● Architected and built the core trading infrastructure from zero: a distributed network of 50+ trading bots ingesting real-time market data from 15+ venues at sub-millisecond latency
● Integrated perpetual DEXs (Hyperliquid, Pacifica), 5 centralized exchanges (Binance, Bybit, Kucoin, Backpack, Gate.io), and prediction market venues behind a unified execution layer● Built automated trading bots executing live strategies across those venues, with smart order routing and slippage protection
● Directing development of the platform's payment systems and native iOS/mobile apps, launching 2026, as part of the consumer-facing product suite
● Developed the Rust/Tokio execution engine sustaining 10K+ requests/second and processing 100K+ market signals/second at 99.9% uptime
● Built the platform's AI layer, integrating Claude, self-hosted Ollama models, and Hugging Face models to analyze market signals and trading calls in real time — filtering noise and surfacing high-confidence opportunities
● Developed a conversational decision interface letting operators query the AI and reason through trading decisions interactively, rather than acting on opaque automated output
● Built an AI news pipeline that scrapes and parses market news in real time, with a chat interface for interrogating and reasoning over the incoming feed