# Nishant Udgaonkar

> GenAI engineer, Software Engineer at HBK Capital Management

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

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ HBK Capital Management
Jan 2023 – Present | New York, NY
Two hats 

1. Firmware GenAI platform engineer

2. software engineer on the data team

### Data Science Intern @ LinkedIn
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Sunnyvale, California, United States
• Worked on optimizing stateful streaming operations in Apache Samza.
• Analyzed the performance of RocksDB key-value store across different workload using the Nexmark benchmark suite.
• Proposed optimal configurations of Samza for different types of workloads at LinkedIn.

### Senior Member Technical @ D. E. Shaw India Private Limited
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Hyderabad Area, India

### Member Technical @ D. E. Shaw India Private Limited
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Hyderabad Area, India

### Software Engineer Intern @ Symantec
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Pune, Maharashtra, India
• Integrated Apache Solr into the Digital Certificate Management Software, boosting search performance by 50%

### Summer Intern @ University of Wisconsin-Madison
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Madison, Wisconsin Area
I worked in the Space Science and Engineering Center under Dr. Sanjay Limaye and Tommy Jasmin on an applet to Track Clouds on Venus using data from the Venus Express satellite. This work was presented at the European Geosciences Union General Assembly, 2014.

### Summer Intern @ NCBS
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Bengaluru Area, India
I worked with Dr. Sandeep Krishna on Game Theory and the application of Nash Equilibrium to evolutionary games as a model for bacteria-phage interactions.


## Education
### Master of Science - MS in Computer Science (Data Science)
University of Southern California

### Master of Engineering - MEng in Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance
BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus

### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science
Fergusson College

### ICSE & ISC in Science
Bishop Cotton Boys'​ School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/nishant-udgaonkar

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Last updated: 2026-04-05