About Me

I am a Cloud Engineer working at Viasat Inc, an industry-leading satellite communications company based in San Diego, CA. I was previously a Managing Partner at Asher Chaim, a technology-driven real estate brokerage in Phoenix, AZ. I'm a 2022 graduate of the Master's Program for Computer Science at the University of Chicago. I also graduated cum laude from Barrett the Honors College at Arizona State University with a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and a minor in Business. Experienced in the financial sector, I was previously a Quantitative Developer at HeliosMI, a boutique hedge fund. I am always open to new experiences, whether that is learning a new tool, working in a new field, or moving to a new place. I pride myself on my ability to quickly learn new things and work with others to build innovative, high-quality software.

Contact Details

Nicholas L. Maheshwari
Denver, CO
nicholasmaheshwari@gmail.com

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Education

University of Chicago

Master in Computer Science • Fall 2020 - March 2022

University of Chicago is considered to be the birthplace and breeding ground of quantitative finance thanks to famous professors such as Eugene Fama (portfolio theory, efficient market hypothesis) and alumni such as Cliff Asness (AQR Capital), Andrew Alper (Goldman Sachs),and Roger Altman (Lehman Brothers). As a Master's student at this prestigious university, I honed my programming skills and diversified my backgroud by taking courses over a wide range of subjects (seen below).

Courses Taken: Databases, Cloud Computing, Advanced Computer Architecture, Applied Financial Technology, Blockchain, Full Stack Software Engineering, Intro to Computer Security, Algorithms, Python Programming, Discrete Mathematics



Barrett the Honors College at Arizona State University

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Minor in Business • Fall 2016-Spring 2020

Barrett, the Honors College at Arizona State University was named “Best Honors College” in the nation by both PrepScholar and College Transistions, and has more National Merit Scholars than MIT, Duke, Brown, Stanford or the University of California-Berkeley. Barrett demands a deeper commitment to learning, requiring students to work with faculty to complete several advanced projects on top of their regular coursework, culminating in a thesis project, similar to a Master's thesis, in which a student has to form a faculty commitee to help guide them towards a successful defense of their thesis project. Information on my thesis project, "Stock Trading Quantified" can be seen in the 'Portfolio' section of this site.

-Deans List: Spring 2017, Fall 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Spring 2020
-Graduated cum laude in May 2020 with a 3.58 GPA

Work Experience

Viasat

Cloud/Software Engineer • June 2022 - Present • http://www.viasat.com

While completing my graduate degree from the MPCS program at UChicago, I became greatly enamored with cloud technologies, and by the time I graduated, I had decided I wanted to pivot my career towards this new interest. After a tedious job hunt, I determined that Viasat was far and away the best to learn the ins and outs of an enterprise-scale cloud tech stack. Having only been with the company for about a month at the point of this writing, I have been nothing but affirmed in my choice.

Asher Chaim

Managing Partner• May 2017 - Present • http://www.asherchaim.com

Having just finished my undergraduate degree I was working for the real estate brokerage Asher Chaim as a junior software engineer. I was initially tasked with writing web scraping programs in Python and building out an SQL database to contain the scrapped data, but my job quickly evolved into designing and building the company's current website. With exactly zero web dev experience, I accepted the challenge. In just under 2 weeks, I learned HTML and CSS and had a basic website deployed (via Digital Ocean). In the weeks that followed, I added web forms with spam/bot detection, data collection routing directly to an external CRM as contacts, and moved the website’s deployment to Netlify (for Github support and simpler deployments). Today my project is still the primary company site, and has been expanded wildly. In my free time during this project I designed a few logos for the company, mostly for fun, one of which was picked as the company's new primary logo. For all of these efforts I was promoted to Full Stack Software Engineer and was made a Partner with the company. I am currently tasked with building company applications (mainly Java and Python), implementing new web features, building new sites for the company's expansion, and integrating new employees into the company tech-stack.

HeliosMI

Quantitative Developer • May 2018 - August 2021 • https://www.heliosmi.com

Helios MI is a quantitative trading fund that focuses on using the newest software innovations to maximize the returns of derivatives trading. At HeliosMI, I use Java and C# to design algorithmic stock and option trading strategies, connecting to Interactive Broker's API. I also collaborate in the development of the entire trading framework, and assist with the formulation of several trading strategies, researching and building a strong foundation in stocks, options, and the inner workings of financial markets. I also acquired a much deeper knowledge of Java and it's ecosystem including Spring Boot, Maven, JUnit, Hibernate, etc. In the past, I have back-tested stock trading algorithms using QuantConnect, mainly using C# and Python (also see, Stock Trading Quantified in my Portfolio), and back-tested option trading strategies using Interactive Brokers Trader Workstation, utilizing their paper-trading capabilities. I also have identified potential bugs and system improvements using JUnit tests and collaborated in the design of the underlying Order Entry system. This system is used throughout the company to communicate with the brokerage (Interactive Brokers). Finally, I used HTML and Jekyll to design the current iteration of the company website (see above), and used Netlify and AWS (Route 53, S3) to deploy the site to the company domain.

Skills

All my life I've been a fast learner, and have enjoyed experiences working in a variety of environments, whether that be individually in a more fast-paced setting, or as a team in more collaborative workspaces. As a leader, I try to bring the best out of everybody, encouraging everyone to speak their mind and facilitating any technical debates. As a team member, I work hard to fill my role and provide advice or assistance to anyone that needs it, and I'm not afraid to share my opinion if I believe the team is going in the wrong direction.

Technical Skills:
•Programming Languages: Java, C#, SQL, Python, C++, C
•Frameworks: Spring Boot, Spring, Hibernate
•Frontend Languages: HTML, CSS, PHP, Grav, Jekyll, PHP, Javascript
•Operating Systems: Linux (Fedora, Ubuntu), Windows
•Cloud Technologies: AWS (Route 53, S3, Elastic Beanstalk, Lightsail, MongoDB, DynamoDB), Netlify, Digital Ocean
•Strong background in math and logic

Favorite Quotes

  • The only weapon capable of transforming the world is EDUCATION

    George McLaurin

  • Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.

    Steve Jobs

  • “Past performance is the best predictor of success.”

    Jim Simons

  • Everything you want is on the other side of hard

    Monty Williams

  • Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.

    Bill Gates

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