Personal details
Sushmit S.
Technical skills
About
Senior engineer and technology leader with 13+ years building real-time, distributed data infrastructure and the AI layer on top. CTO for two companies and fractional consultant for others. Currently CTO of an AI-powered crypto trading platform (Rust/Go, 100K+ market signals/sec, sub-ms latency, 99.9% uptime) and fractional infrastructure consultant. Expert in Rust, Go, Python, TypeScript. Working remotely since 2014 across US, UK, UAE, Japan, Hong Kong, and Australia.
Work Experience
Fleet telematics analytics platform. New Jersey, US · Remote
● Own cloud infrastructure, deployment, and observability for a Python data platform ingesting vehicle telemetry from Geotab, Samsara, and other providers
● Built Prefect orchestration — scheduled and event-driven pipelines across third-party APIs with retry, backfill, and failure isolation
● AWS infrastructure as code with Terraform; Docker-based deployments
● Instrumented full stack with SigNoz for tracing, metrics, and alerting
AI, fintech, and trading platform. Dubai, UAE · Hybrid
● Lead engineering as CTO across AI apps, payments, iOS/mobile, and cross-chain trading; set technical direction and architecture
● Built core trading infrastructure: 50+ trading bots ingesting real-time data from 15+ venues at sub-millisecond latency
● Integrated Hyperliquid, Pacifica, and 5 CEXes (Binance, Bybit, Kucoin, Backpack, Gate.io) behind unified execution
● Rust/Tokio execution engine: 10K+ req/s, 100K+ market signals/s at 99.9% uptime
● Built AI layer (Claude, Ollama, Hugging Face) plus conversational decision interface and AI news pipeline
● Hired and led 5 engineers; Rust/Go standards, CI/CD, property-based testing; Hedera grant 200K HBAR