Hi, I'm Ram.
I build infrastructure
for financial markets.

Director, DevOps Engineering

Leading DevOps engineering at MEMX, a US stock exchange processing billions of dollars in daily trading volume. Overseeing the platform and team underpinning all exchange systems, with a focus on reliability, performance, and security in a regulated financial environment.

DevOps Team Lead

Led four engineers responsible for the infrastructure powering MEMX's exchange platforms.

• Defined and executed the DevOps roadmap as the exchange grew from startup to established market participant.
• Drove automation that reduced deployment overhead and improved operational consistency across exchange environments.
• Established mentorship and an engineering culture focused on reliability and performance in a regulated financial environment.

DevOps Engineer

One of MEMX's earliest infrastructure engineers, architecting and building the exchange's foundational infrastructure from the ground up.

• Architected bare-metal infrastructure for ultra-low-latency exchange environments, including custom OS images and kernel-level performance tuning.
• Designed and built the exchange application CI/CD pipeline, establishing the deployment model still in use today.
• Implemented centralized logging, monitoring, and observability across exchange platforms.
• Automated server provisioning with Infrastructure as Code, reducing manual overhead from days to minutes.
• Designed enterprise applications supporting exchange operations and regulatory compliance.
• Led infrastructure security hardening to meet financial industry compliance standards.

DevOps Engineer

Built infrastructure for logging, security, software delivery, and provisioning.

• Designed and deployed a distributed Splunk logging platform across multiple regions and business units.
• Partnered with Security to architect and implement Splunk as the enterprise SIEM solution.
• Architected and deployed Tradeweb's first Kubernetes cluster, proving out container orchestration.
• Built and managed CI/CD integrating Bitbucket, Bamboo, Artifactory, and Blackduck.
• Automated OS build and deployment pipelines to reduce manual provisioning overhead.

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Infrastructure and Security Engineer Intern

• Migrated production MongoDB from a physical data center to AWS with minimal downtime.
• Performed red-team-style penetration testing and reported critical security vulnerabilities.
• Built AWS automation for host management, state management, and patch configuration.

Software Engineer

• Developed an orchestration framework for automated installation, upgrade, and configuration of remote production systems, adopted as a core deployment tool.
• Built Python and Perl automation for backup and restore, OS hardening, network configuration, and fault management.
• Deployed and managed production servers running Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
• Redesigned the product GUI and migrated backend services from SOAP to REST.