About Me

I am a Cloud Engineer working at Viasat Inc, an industry-leading satellite communications company based in San Diego, CA. Previously I was a Full Stack Engineer and Managing Partner at Asher Chaim, a technology-driven real estate brokerage in Phoenix, AZ. Also with experience in the financial sector, I previously worked as a Quantitative Developer at HeliosMI, a derivatives-based hedge fund.

I'm a 2022 graduate of the Master's Program for Computer Science at the University of Chicago, also studying at Barrett the Honors College at Arizona State University where I graduated cum laude with a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and a minor in Business. 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 people from all walks of life to build innovative, high-quality stuff.

Contact Info

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

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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 the future and possibilities around cloud technologies, and by the time I graduated, I had decided I wanted to pivot my once finance-and-real-estate-based career towards this new interest. After a thorough job hunt, I determined that Viasat, the industry-leading satellite communications company, was the best environment for me to learn the ins and outs of a global, enterprise-scale cloud tech stack. Working for a satellite company appealed to my love of space, a fondness inspired by uncle, Charles Pevsner, a renowned astrophotographer (check out some of his awesome shots here).

Since I joined Viasat in June 2022, I have developed several large-scale automation tools, including a Golang, gRp, and protobuf based DNS & IPAM management system that significantly reduced the company's network operations workload, along with a Typescript, React, and Vite web application GUI to act as its customer facing interface. I also built several integrations and programs to provide automated onboarding and / or server operations for various enterprise SaaS applications, such as ServiceNow, Jira, Outlook, and Slack using dozens of various programs and tools such as Python, Golang, Terraform, Ansible, Github Actions, Jenkins, and Bash for automating AWS, Azure, GCP, and Openstack cloud or bare metal server operations.

Asher Chaim

Managing Partner• May 2017 - June 2022 • http://www.asherchaim.com

Having just finished my undergraduate degree, I found myself working for the real estate brokerage Asher Chaim, a tech-forward real estate firm in Phoenix, 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 next to zero web dev experience, I accepted the challenge. In just under 2 weeks, I taught myself the essentials of Javascript, HTML, and CSS and had a basic website deployed (via Digital Ocean). In the weeks that followed, I added more advanced 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 more new-age logos for the company, mostly for fun, which I jokingly pitched at the end an all-hands meeting. It was decided that we hold a new-logo contest, and after the final tally, my initial design was picked as the company's new primary logo. For all of these combined efforts, and my willingness to throw myself completely into any new opportunity the company had, I was promoted to Full Stack Software Engineer and was made a Partner with the company, in a role where I continued to lead the development of business crucial applications while also interviewing and onboarding new hires to the company. While I ultimately decided to step away from real estate and Asher Chaim in 2022 to pursue a career as a cloud engineer, I will always remember my Asher Chaim days fondly and appreciate all the opportunities granted to me while I was there.

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 from derivatives trading. At HeliosMI, I used Java and C# to design algorithmic stock and option trading strategies, connecting to Interactive Broker's REST API. I collaborated in development across the entire trading framework, from the data pipeline, to the trade execution software, and to the active asset management system. I worked directly with market analysts on 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.

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

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:
•Software Development & Engineering: Python, Golang, TypeScript/JavaScript, Java, C#, C++, C, SQL, React, HTML, CSS, Tailwind, REST, gRPC (protobufs), Postgres
•DevOps & Cloud Infrastructure: AWS (Route 53, S3, Elastic Beanstalk, Lightsail, MongoDB, DynamoDB), Azure (AD, VMs, AKS, Azure Functions, Sentinel), OpenStack, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Git (as well as Github Actions & GHAS), Jenkins, Ansible, ArgoCD, Postman, Okta, OAuth, Netskope (ZTNA)

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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