Hire Kirtan P. - Forward Deployed Engineer

Led migration from Docker Compose to Kubernetes, streamlining deployments and improving release reliability and debugging efficiency. Designed and implemented Terraform modules to provision and manage on-prem Redis, MongoDB, and Elasticsearch clusters, establishing infrastructure-as-code standards. Built an internal trade alert aggregation service processing hundreds of thousands of events daily, delivering real-time, preference-based notifications to the sales team and increasing trade engagement. Serve as technical owner of a Kafka-based distributed alerting platform handling ~1,000,000 messages per day, driving impact analysis and cross-team system changes. Established Playwright as the standard E2E testing framework for legacy applications, decreasing manual QA dependency and improving deployment confidence. Partnered with business stakeholders and traders to translate requirements into scalable backend systems and real-time data workflows Improved system observability and debugging by enhancing logging, monitoring, and alerting across distributed services Contributed to architectural decisions around event-driven systems, ensuring scalability and reliability under high message throughput Accelerated development workflows by leveraging AI-assisted tools for code generation, reviews, and test coverage improvements Mentored junior engineers and interns through project execution, design reviews, and regular feedback Stack: Angular, NestJS, GraphQL, Typescript, Kubernetes, Claude, Cursor, Kafka, Terraform, AWS

Built an alerting UI in Angular for dealers to view incoming bond trades/actions from other dealers/traders Used GraphQL subscriptions to initialize and manage trade alerts for 1,000+ dealers Built and currently own an admin service for the support team to diagnose and change user connections using Kafka and WebSockets Enhanced existing history services to display more relevant data to traders, and implement data export feature Mentored interns by guiding them through their summer projects and having weekly check-ins Worked across frontend and backend systems to support real-time data delivery and improve trader visibility into market activity Collaborated with stakeholders to gather requirements and iterate on features to improve usability and adoption Maintained and improved existing services by debugging issues, refining data flows, and ensuring system reliability Stack: Angular, NestJS, GraphQL, and Typescript