Vishwak Thatikonda
Lead Full Stack Engineer at Starbucks
Dublin, California, United States
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Vishwak Thatikonda is a Lead Software Engineer and Founding Architect specializing in high-resilience, mission-critical systems. Known for building complex platforms from the ground up, his work ranges from engineering the ground systems for the NASA Perseverance Rover (Mastcam-Z) to architecting the "Product Data Brain" for 38,000 Starbucks stores—a foundational cornerstone for their next-generation global POS system.
A technical pioneer in both the startup and enterprise worlds, Vishwak served as the inaugural architect for an MIT GeoAI spinout (AirWorks), where he scaled the platform from $0 to a multi-million dollar venture fundraise. He has led industry-first banking initiatives for 18 million users at Credit Sesame and directed blockchain-logistics pilots for UPS. A former ACM Chairperson, Vishwak bridges the gap between deep-tech research and large-scale production reality. His latest open-source project, LambdaForge, empowers engineers to run professional-grade financial automation with near-zero operational overhead.
Area of Expertise
The $0.15/month Algo-Trader: Architecting High-Performance Serverless Trading Engines
In the high-stakes world of algorithmic trading, infrastructure costs and execution latency are the primary enemies of alpha. But what if you could run a production-grade, event-driven trading engine for less than the cost of a cup of coffee per year?
This session explores the architectural blueprint of LambdaForge, an open-source trading platform built entirely on a serverless stack. We will break down how to orchestrate Python microservices, AWS Lambda, and EventBridge to handle real-time market data and execute high-stakes trades with sub-second latency, all while maintaining an operational cost of ~$0.15/month.
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