Vol. I · Edition September 2026 Gurugram, Haryana · India Software Engineer · Open to conversations

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Naman Ajay
Markhedkar

Software engineer at BlackRock. Quant systems, AI agents, and the backends that surface both.

Naman Ajay Markhedkar
Markhedkar, photographed for this edition. B.E. Computer Science + M.Sc. Physics, BITS Pilani Goa, 2025.

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B.E. Computer Science + M.Sc. Physics, BITS Pilani Goa Private Markets AI Agent adopted by 1,000+ internal users 242 integration tests across 10+ repositories Won the APAC BlackRock Hackathon 2026 B.E. Computer Science + M.Sc. Physics, BITS Pilani Goa Private Markets AI Agent adopted by 1,000+ internal users 242 integration tests across 10+ repositories Won the APAC BlackRock Hackathon 2026

By the numbers

1,000+

internal users on the Private Markets AI agent

242

integration tests generated across 10+ repositories

400

DAO classes remediated in the Sybase → MSSQL move

4

production teams shipped with — BlackRock, Disney+ Hotstar and before

The record · experience

Jul 2025 — Present

BlackRock

Software Developer, Analyst · Gurugram

Shipped a governed Private Markets AI agent, then turned it into the framework everyone else builds on.

  • Built and deployed a structured Private Markets AI agent on Google ADK with access controls, validation layers and monitored execution — now used by 1,000+ engineering and product colleagues for IRR retrieval and transaction analysis.
  • Wrote the reusable agent-orchestration framework behind it: tool routing, callbacks, session persistence and human-in-the-loop review for internal AI applications.
  • Designed the protobuf contracts for RPC-based Internal Rate of Return APIs that survive very large payloads.
  • Delivered the Liquidity Score Settings module end to end — Spring Boot services plus dynamic AngularJS UI, with token-based access control for client-specific data toggling.
Google ADK LangGraph Spring Boot gRPC / protobuf AngularJS

Jan — Jun 2025

BlackRock

Software Engineering Intern · Gurugram

Aladdin Explore front-end work, and the unglamorous migration nobody volunteers for.

  • Built dynamic components and toolbars for the Aladdin Explore client app, applying waterfall logic to decide what renders.
  • Integrated Angular grids for Matrix Correlation and Matrix Contribution analytics used in factor-based analysis.
  • Moved Sybase to MSSQL by remediating close to 400 DAO classes, and used AI-assisted automation to cut manual resolution — 242 integration tests across 10+ repositories.
Angular TypeScript MSSQL Sybase Java

Jun — Dec 2024

Disney+ Hotstar

Software Developer Intern · Remote

A metadata review tool for the CMS, and a faster CMS to put it in.

  • Built a Metadata Review Tool that compares metadata changes and their downstream impact before publish, cutting errors in content updates.
  • Designed a tab-based UI with JSON object diffing for detailed change analysis.
  • Improved Core Web Vitals with tree shaking, code splitting and Webpack tuning.
  • Built scalable front-end workflows in ReactJS with Flux, ESLint and CSS preprocessors inside the Hotstar CMS ecosystem.
ReactJS Flux Webpack SCSS

Jun — Jul 2022

Mazo Solutions

Full Stack Developer · Chennai

A bot that ran first-round interviews so humans did not have to.

  • Built a bot-based interview system with Angular, Node.js, SQL, WebRTC and the MediaRecorder API.
  • Automating the first round cut HR workload by 50% — about 20 hours back every week.
Angular Node.js WebRTC SQL

The toolkit

Languages

  • Java
  • Python
  • TypeScript
  • SQL
  • C++

Frameworks & backend

  • Spring Boot
  • Angular
  • ReactJS
  • REST APIs
  • RPC / gRPC
  • LangGraph
  • Google ADK

Databases & tools

  • MSSQL
  • Sybase
  • Git
  • Webpack
  • Flux
  • Linux

AI & systems

  • LLM agents
  • RAG
  • Tool routing
  • Human-in-the-loop
  • Telemetry
  • Session management

Achievements

  • Won the APAC BlackRock Hackathon 2026

    An AI agentic workflow that streamlined recurring Aladdin client issue resolution.

  • 1,000+ problems solved

    Algorithmic and competitive programming across LeetCode and Codeforces.

Education

B.E. Computer Science + M.Sc. Physics

BITS Pilani, Goa Campus · graduated August 2025. A five-year dual degree finished alongside two internships and a full-time start.

Now

Building agent infrastructure at BlackRock in Gurugram — orchestration, tool routing and the human-in-the-loop layers that make AI usable on a trading floor.

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