SUKHMAN VIRK
Full-Stack Software Engineer · Backend Systems · Cloud Infrastructure · AI and LLM Systems
EDUCATION
EXPERIENCE
- Sole engineer on a space-object custody system for a space-domain-awareness company, shipped in under 4 weeks: Django and React over ~27,000 catalogued objects, each with an accountable owner.
- Built its RAG assistant on AWS Bedrock Knowledge Base with Cohere embeddings, semantic chunking, and metadata-filtered OpenSearch Serverless vector search.
- Designed an MCP server via FastMCP exposing five role-gated tools to Bedrock agents, enabling hybrid retrieval across PostgreSQL and vector stores with permissions enforced at the tool layer.
- Led a team of 4 engineers building Minfy's reusable satellite earth-observation platform on AWS.
- Built the natural-language geospatial search for a multi-tenant weather and satellite data marketplace: an LLM parses the request and PostGIS does the spatial retrieval, scoped to each tenant's plan.
- Built the multi-tenant RBAC admin console and Go APIs for an IoT access-control platform for a lock manufacturer, isolating data per tenant on shared infrastructure.
- Shipped a secure file-management service in Flask with KMS encryption, sustaining 10,000+ daily requests at 99.99% uptime.
- Led greenfield builds and on-premises to AWS migrations with automated failover, circuit breakers, and zero-downtime cutovers, instrumenting CloudWatch metrics to trace failures across service boundaries.
- Built a C++ WebRTC peer-to-peer application for a Fortune 500 client moving images, video, and messages at up to 4K resolution.
- Automated ICE negotiation via Google STUN, cutting connection setup time by 90% and end-to-end media latency by 30%.
- Built a full-stack AES-256 cryptographic applet in Next.js and Java protecting 50,000+ user records with zero post-launch vulnerabilities.
- Automated decryption-key retrieval via AWS KMS and integrated Okta 2FA, eliminating manual key rotation across the platform.
PROJECTS
A two-sided market maker live on Kalshi BTC hourly binaries, quoting across the strike ladder and requoting on every order-book event in under 50ms, across 100+ markets with $10K+ in traded volume.
- Suppresses quoting during information events via a toxicity-triggered participation gate under asymmetric hysteresis, the largest single driver of realized PnL in the system, ahead of pricing precision.
- Estimates fill probability with a censoring-aware survival model trained on 1M+ order events over queue, depth, and book-state features.
- Prices adverse selection per fill with a gradient-boosted markout model under Bayesian regularization, subtracting expected markout from captured edge rather than booking the full spread as profit.
- Sets spread, size, and hold horizon from an explicit profit optimizer maximizing expected capture net of adverse selection, with inventory carried as a quadratic variance penalty.
- Centers quotes on a reservation price in log-odds space rather than the Avellaneda-Stoikov closed forms, whose spread and skew terms degrade on binary contracts near the tails.
- Production stack in Python: signed exchange auth, Redis hot cache with durable fill history, amend-first order management, and reconciliation crediting only verified fills to prevent phantom inventory.
A full-stack quant research platform with a daily ETL pipeline ingesting equities, options chains, and Treasury yields.
- Black-Scholes IV inversion (Newton-Raphson) and an options Greeks landscape, with cubic interpolation for smooth implied volatility surfaces.
- LRU caching on iterative numerical models cut per-query runtime by 4x.
- Published cuda-kernels to PyPI: CUDA-accelerated autocorrelation and sum reduction running 91% faster than NumPy.
App repo · PyPI · Kernels repo
A Dixon-Coles team-strength model, a multi-period MILP squad optimiser, and a backtest harness that gates every change on held-out seasons. The MILP cleared its pre-registered bar on a held-out season (+56.3 points over greedy, 5 of 6 seeds ahead). Benchmarks weekly against managers with repeated top-1% finishes, read live from the FPL API.
End-to-end NLP pipeline on 14,600 tweets: TF-IDF features with SVM and Logistic Regression for 3-class sentiment, K-means with PCA clustering validated by Silhouette scoring, and LDA topic modeling to surface latent complaint themes.
Real-time Android app in Java rendering friends' live locations from persistent location streams over a SQL-backed friend graph, with a full Robolectric, JUnit, and Espresso test suite on GitHub Actions CI/CD.
SKILLS
Languages: Python, TypeScript, SQL, Go, C++, Java, C, JavaScript
Frameworks: React.js, Next.js, Node.js, FastAPI, Flask, Django, PostgreSQL, Redis, PyTorch, NumPy, Pandas, CUDA
Applied AI: Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, AWS Bedrock, MCP and FastMCP, RAG Pipelines, OpenSearch Serverless, Cohere Embeddings, LLM Evaluation, Agent Orchestration
Cloud & DevOps: AWS (S3, ECS, ECR, Lambda, DynamoDB, Cognito, KMS, CloudWatch, QuickSight), Terraform, Docker, GitHub Actions CI/CD
Domains: Workflow Automation, Internal Tooling, Multi-Tenant SaaS, Client-Facing Delivery, Machine Learning, Market Microstructure
LEADERSHIP
- Built a QR code check-in system that cut queue wait times by 50% and eliminated unauthorized entry across 10+ events.
- Maintained a website serving 7,000+ monthly visitors.