# Viral Modi > Senior Software Engineer at Bloomberg Location: New York, New York, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/viralmodi I have experience building automation and optimization frameworks in Python and SQL. I enjoy working on challenging problems that increase efficiency to save time and add value. ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ Bloomberg LP Jan 2022 – Present | New York, New York, United States ### Senior Software Engineer @ Wayfair Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | Greater Boston Area • Built infrastructure to schedule, crawl, ingest, process and store comp. intelligence data. • Took legacy scheduling systems reliant on monolithic SQL stored procedures and architected a modern, modular, micro service based scheduling system built on top of FastAPI pods orchestrated using Kubernetes and interfacing with Kafka streams. • Designed an API + streaming based service that supports ingestion of 100’s of millions of records per day, which became used by multiple other teams. This was built for a singular use case but became adopted by multiple teams due to its usefulness. • Led multiple projects from inception, to design, scoping and implementation and delivered the projects complete with unit, integration tests, monitoring, alerting + docs. • Trained and led an offshore team to be brought up to speed and own part of the tech stack • Participated in and led the winning teams in two separate company hackathons ### Algorithmic Trading @ Self-employed Jan 2017 – Jan 2022 | Cambridge, MA • Developed an arbitrage based bot running on live cryptocurrency exchanges • Designed the multi-threaded logic for event driven modular operation which increased efficiency and simplified code maintenance • Created a self-healing production level algorithm which restarts itself in case of a network/server error or unexpected responses • Implemented the full API function calls for all exchanges used in the operation, both on websocket and authenticated feeds ### Private College Tutor @ Self Employed Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Cambridge, MA • Tutored 30 different students in a dozen subject areas ranging from Calculus, Differential Equations, Statistics, multiple Physics and Economics courses, and Computer Science • Raised students grades by one to three grade levels by stressing the importance of thinking from first principles and understanding over memorization • Mentored students to increase their self confidence in their problem solving abilities ### Quantitative Analyst @ EverQuote Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 • Built fully autonomous reporting systems that generated automated excel workbooks and PowerPoint presentations using the python Pandas, xlsx, and pptx libraries. Made choropleth maps for geo-representation of data in the automated reports • Worked on optimization problems to improve the company's outgoing traffic distribution for maximal profitability • Wrote SQL queries to monitor and gather data for statistical analyses to look for signals that could generate more money or improve the product ### Robotics Instructor and SAT Mentor @ Exposure Robotics League Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Lagos, Nigeria • Designed and taught a robotics curriculum in ROBOTC to Nigerian students aged 14-19 who were selected from all over Nigeria due to having won various national science and math fairs, Olympiads and competitions • Created obstacle courses and challenges that were used by the whole program which encouraged critical creative thinking among the students • The three teams I mentored all reached the final round of the main competition in the program, with one of the teams taking second place ### Group Leader and Student Teacher @ MIT Global Teaching Labs Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Venezia, Italy • Designed and taught advanced Physics classes (in English) to Italian high-school students in Italy. Led the MIT Physics students group in the preparatory stages of the program • Challenges included instruction of seven different topics to eight different classes in Mestre-Venezia. Overcoming the language barrier was another task expected of me as a teacher • In addition to teaching advanced classes such as Relativity and Monte Carlo methods, one of the students applied the teachings to make a research contribution to a CERN experiment ### Research Assistant @ MIT Department of Economics Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Cambridge, USA • Using ArcGIS and the Google maps API, I implemented an algorithm to search for the nearest highway exit for each of the 13000 gas stations in France • This data is now being used to determine whether recent policy changes in France have encouraged tacit price collusion among gas station companies ### Researcher @ MIT Development Lab Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | India • Traveled to a village community in northern India for working on the design and procurement of an automated biocharcoal briquetter • Worked on a biocharcoal project to determine the best binder for charcoal made from pine needle waste • Assessed the carbon monoxide, ash content and other emissions of the mentioned biocharcoal project prior to large-scale government implementation in India ### Research Assistant @ MIT Department of Physics Jan 2010 – Jan 2010 | Geneva Area, Switzerland • Worked with the MIT Heavy Ion Group analyzing different variables such as transverse momentum and angular position of particles in proton+proton collisions at the Large Hadron Collider, CERN • Generated and analyzed Monte Carlo simulations for the two‐particle correlation in proton+proton collisions • Group concluded some very unique flow properties in the jet of particles produced and a paper was published ## Education ### Massachusetts Institute of Technology ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/viral-modi-8b9b3316 --- Source: https://flows.cv/viralmodi JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/viralmodi/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-31