Now Page
What I'm doing right now
Last updated · Amsterdam, Netherlands
This is a /now page — a snapshot of what's actually on my plate this month. It's not a calendar, not a CV, not a status update. It's the thing I'd tell you over coffee.
Looking for the next role
I'm available from June 2026 for senior engineering leadership: CTO, VP Engineering, Head of Technology, Head of Trading Technology — at trading firms, market makers, and capital-markets technology companies. Strongly preferring APAC (Singapore, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Mumbai, Sydney) and the Gulf (Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Doha). Visa-eligible across all of those: ONE Pass, Golden Visa, Top Talent Pass, O-1A.
If you're hiring or know someone who is, the fastest way is to email me at arindam.paul@me.com or message me on LinkedIn. I respond inside 24 hours on weekdays.
Writing every two weeks
I'm publishing a series on engineering at the edge of three industries — finance, healthcare, and music. Three articles already up; four more landing through June. Latest:
- Two Patents and Zero Patients Lost — what it takes to build software where failure means patient harm.
- The Architecture of Speed — how low-latency trading systems are actually built.
- How a Rare Book Became Apple's Most Beautiful App — the database behind Apple Music Classical.
Full archive: arindampaul.com/blog. RSS: /blog/feed.xml.
Mentoring at Cambridge
I'm continuing as a mentor for the Cambridge engineering programme. Two students this term — one on FPGA-based market data parsers, one on a quantitative reinforcement-learning project. Sessions are remote from Amsterdam.
Reading right now
- Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann (re-read).
- The Man Who Solved the Market by Gregory Zuckerman.
- Systemantics: How Systems Really Work and How They Fail by John Gall.
- The Cambridge Systems Research Group publication backlog.
Side work
Maintaining a small set of low-latency C++ utility libraries on GitHub. Recently added a single-producer ring buffer benchmark for x86_64 NUMA topologies. Public, no commercial roadmap.
Not doing
Open-source maintainership beyond the small libraries above. Conferences as an attendee (only as a speaker). Coffee chats with hiring managers I haven't been introduced to — the inbox triage cost outweighs the signal. Engage is the path that works.
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