London, UK

Vignesh Nallathambipillai

Founding engineer with a background in backend and transactional systems, now focused on reliable agentic products.

I build financially consequential products from prototype to production, spanning trading, cryptocurrency payments, casino games and sportsbook systems. I am now applying that zero-to-one experience to forward-deployed and applied-AI engineering.

2024–2026

London

Goated

Co-founder & Founding Engineer

Co-founded Goated and built core backend systems across its provably fair casino, cryptocurrency payments and sportsbook, including Fireblocks payment flows, launch-era Original game backends and a C#/.NET service integrating Sportradar UOF and MTS.

C# · .NET · Node.js · Express.js · Firebase · Fireblocks · Sportradar

2023

Co-founder

D2Y

Co-founder & Founding Engineer

Co-founded and launched a BTC and ETH derivatives exchange on Arbitrum. Built its price-time-priority order book, options pricing and portfolio-risk systems, and asynchronous trade processing and reconciliation.

Python · Django REST Framework · PostgreSQL · EIP-712 · Arbitrum

2022–2023

Co-founder

Aver

Co-founder & Founding Engineer

Co-founded Aver and took it from hackathon prototype to Solana mainnet. Owned the off-chain product stack and automated the live market lifecycle across creation, pricing, indexing, results and settlement.

Python · Django · PostgreSQL · Celery · React · Solana

2019–2022

London

LoopUp

Senior Software Engineer

Shipped production web, mobile and API features for an enterprise communications platform, working across the product stack and its Microsoft SQL Server data layer.

C# · ASP.NET · SQL Server · React · React Native

Outside work, I write, play chess and care about education. That last one predates my engineering career: at 19, I co-founded a tutoring centre that reached 40 weekly students and £4k+ MRR within three months.

BSc Computer Science, First Class Honours
University of Southampton, 2019

What I’m looking for

A forward-deployed or applied-AI engineering role: working alongside users, owning delivery end to end and turning capable models into reliable products.

vignesh.uma@gmail.com