Vol. I · Edition September 2026Gurugram, Haryana · IndiaSoftware Engineer · Open to conversations
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Naman Ajay MarkhedkarNaman Ajay MarkhedkarNaman Ajay MarkhedkarNaman Ajay Markhedkar
Software engineer at BlackRock. Quant systems, AI agents, and the backends that surface both.
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
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internal users on the Private Markets AI agent
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integration tests generated across 10+ repositories
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DAO classes remediated in the Sybase → MSSQL move
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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 ADKLangGraphSpring BootgRPC / protobufAngularJS
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.
AngularTypeScriptMSSQLSybaseJava
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.
ReactJSFluxWebpackSCSS
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.
AngularNode.jsWebRTCSQL
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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