Kanishk Yadav

Clearing and Settlement, March 2025 - current

• Drove the migration from SFCM Broadridge to Clear Street’s in-house fixed-income clearing and settlement infrastructure, eliminating key third-party dependencies and delivering significant annual cost savings
• Mentored and managed an intern on the Clearing & Settlement team, providing technical guidance, scoped ownership, and delivery oversight

Infra, May 2022 - current

• Implemented a firm-wide authorization platform using SpiceDB/AuthZed with hierarchical resource modeling, relationship-based access control, and dynamic persona assumption, eliminating duplicated authorization logic across microservices
• Owned and executed the company-wide migration from VictorOps to PagerDuty, significantly improving incident response workflows, on-call reliability, and operational readiness
• Contributed to the migration of source control and CI/CD workflows from GitLab to GitHub, standardizing build pipelines and improving developer productivity
• Built standardized data pipelines to extract engineering KPIs across teams, establishing company-wide best practices for idempotent and high-performance ELT processes
• Optimized Kafka architecture and retention policies across the company, reducing storage costs by ~50% while improving end-to-end p99 latency

• Designed and built a supply-side experimentation framework in Amazon Ad Exchange (AAX), enabling controlled experimentation across creative formats, bidding strategies, and placement attributes to optimize display advertising revenue
• Developed systems to ingest and enrich the advertising data lake with AAX performance metrics, enabling accurate measurement of placement effectiveness
• Contributed to a unified placement management platform used across Amazon-owned properties, onboarding publishers including Fire TV, IMDb, and Twitch
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams across advertising, data, and infrastructure to deliver scalable solutions supporting high-traffic, revenue-critical systems

• Lead the migration of 1010data services to AWS cloud in order to decrease the data center footprint and ultimately move clients to cloud based infrastructure
• Responsible for designing and maintaining ETL processes in K that manage datasets from numerous providers that drive 1010data's internal analytics division and are subscribed to by Capital Markets clients
• Primarily worked on moving data pipelines from 1010data proprietary tech stack to Apache Airflow to power the company's internal analytics division
• Lead the development of various Apache Airflow Operators and Sensors to streamline the process of setting up ETL processes

• Designed and developed a scalable Java framework to automate the process of capturing the test attributes for JUnit and Silk4NET Automation tests for the Analytics team in Fixedincome
• Implemented the framework to capture 85% of Junit test cases and all Silk4NET tests and emitted them into JSON files with several Security(finance) attributes which substantially helped the team to expand testing to all Securities