Hello, I'm

Kiran Ramachandran

Software Developer  ·  Systematic Trader  ·  CS Graduate

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Who I am

About Me

I'm a software developer and systematic trader based in Mumbai, India, with a background in Mechanical Engineering from IIT Mumbai and a Master's in Computer Science from Scaler Neovarsity–Woolf University.

I specialise in building automated trading systems, full-stack web applications, and microservices architectures. Over a decade of systematic trading has sharpened my ability to think in systems and optimize for performance.

Currently freelancing — helping proprietary traders automate and scale their strategies while continuing to build software products.

📧 kiran.ram@gmail.com
📱 +44 7404 489696
🐙 github.com/KiranACD
💼 LinkedIn
13+
Years Trading
4+
Years Dev
10×
Strategy Scale
10×
API Speedup

Career

Work Experience

Software Developer Mar 2021 – Present
Freelance · Mumbai, India
  • Developed automated trading applications that supported trade execution from multiple strategies across multiple brokers.
  • Provided automation solutions for proprietary traders, helping them increase strategy deployments by a factor of 10.
  • Sample project: Trading-Bot on GitHub ↗
Systematic Trader Mar 2011 – Present
Self Employed · Mumbai, India
  • Developed a risk premia harvesting strategy in the Indian stock market to capture equity risk premium returns using Nifty and Banknifty futures.
  • Built a portfolio of seasonality-based strategies exploiting Nifty and Banknifty options patterns.

What I've built

Projects

Resume Builder ↗
Mar 2024 – Apr 2024
React jsPDF
  • Web app where users create ATS-friendly resumes and download them as PDFs.
  • Implemented a live PDF preview feature that updates as the resume is edited.
E-Commerce Backend ↗
Dec 2023 – Feb 2024
SpringBoot Spring Security Redis Kafka Elasticsearch MySQL
  • Microservices platform covering Product Catalog, Payment Gateway, Order, and Notification services.
  • Optimised API response time from ~500 ms to ~50 ms via Redis caching.
  • Implemented event-driven email service with Kafka for large-scale notifications.
  • OAuth2-based auth microservice using Spring Security; Stripe payment gateway integration.
Medium Clone ↗
May 2024 – Jun 2024
Next.js Tailwind CSS
  • Feature-rich blogging platform with dynamic routing, SSR, and API integration.
  • Responsive UI/UX with Tailwind CSS for cross-device accessibility.

Toolkit

Skills

Languages
Python Java JavaScript HTML/CSS SQL
Frameworks
SpringBoot Node.js React Next.js
Developer Tools
Git Docker AWS VSCode
Libraries & Data
Pandas NumPy Redis Kafka Elasticsearch

Academic Background

Education

Master of Science
Scaler Neovarsity – Woolf University
Computer Science
Bengaluru, India Aug 2022 – Aug 2024
Bachelor of Technology
Indian Institute of Technology
Mechanical Engineering
Mumbai, India Jun 2002 – May 2010