# Lavanya Kannan

> Engineering @ Vanta

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/lavanyakannan

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Vanta
Jan 2022 – Present | United States

### Software Engineer @ Vise
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | New York, United States

### Software Engineer @ Broadway Technology
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | New York, New York, United States
- Released high-customer-impact low-latency multi-threaded C++ market connectors on proprietary distributed platform and DB, while owning full product life cycle until prod deployment, and applying and advising on QA processes
- Projects included supporting new trading strategies and complexities for customers and troubleshooting prod incidents
- Contributed to core architecture/library that integrates financial protocols to efficiently and seamlessly build new solutions
- Developed and maintained Python tools on distributed platform to validate new releases, track system and component health and maintain venue connectivity

### Software Engineering Intern @ Two Sigma
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Greater New York City Area
Migrated the technology on core Financial Information Exchange engine – distributed trading platform that handles automatic trading 
Designed & Implemented a Java reconciliation engine to evaluate migrated software for trading with various brokers

### Software Engineer Internship @ Microsoft
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Redmond, WA
• Worked on lighting up features for Project Rome. Designed and implemented a Java API to provide cross-platform functionalities for Android. Implemented a Java wrapper for C++ code base using the Java Native Interface.
• Worked on build scripts to get cross-language code compiling for Android.

### Software Engineering Internship @ Infinera
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Sunnyvale, CA
Designed and implemented enhancements to Java desktop app (Java Swing & Jide package) that assisted developers in debugging software 
Significantly improved debugging productivity
Performed query, populate & delete operations on MongoDB database
Employed search algorithms/techniques to improve user interaction with data

### iOS Learning Algorithms Intern @ Specdrums
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Ithaca, NY
Added features to iOS app in Swift for an enhanced user experience and a more seamless integration with the product hardware (a ring that generates different music sounds as users tap colored surfaces). 
Collaborated with co-founders to design code architecture for the new features.


## Education
### Master of Engineering - MEng in Computer Science
Cornell University

### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Computer Science
Cornell University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/lavanya-kannan

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Last updated: 2026-03-29