Nikhil Padala
DeFi × Low-Latency Trading × Conscious Infrastructure
Former Gemini/Akuna HFT Engineer sharing deep insights on building sub-100µs systems, DeFi infrastructure, and high-performance trading at scale.
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Expertise & Focus Areas
Deep expertise in building resilient, high-performance systems for the Web3 and DeFi ecosystem
🏗 Infrastructure & SRE
Zero-downtime deployments • Terraform • Kubernetes • 50 Gbps+ systems • High-frequency trading infrastructure • Observability & monitoring
⚡ Trading & Markets
Low-latency execution systems • MEV strategies & protection • Risk management • Alpha generation • Market microstructure analysis
🔗 Web3 & DeFi
L2 scaling solutions • DeFi protocol design • Tokenomics • Smart contract optimization • Bridge architecture
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📊 Trading & Markets
Low-latency systems • MEV strategies • Risk management • Market analysis • Alpha generation
🏗 Infrastructure
SRE practices • DevOps • Kubernetes • Performance optimization • Zero-downtime deployments
🔗 Web3 & DeFi
L2 solutions • Protocol design • Tokenomics • Smart contracts • MEV protection