Nischal Khanal
Systems & Performance Engineer
Software Engineer exploring systems, market infrastructure, and performance engineering
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Stabilizing a High-Frequency Trading Gateway: How We Reclaimed Our Event Loop Under Extreme Market Volatility
Jun 15, 2026Takeaway:Fixed trading pipeline message drops by replacing blocking writes and GIL-heavy validation with an async micro-batching architecture
The Packet Was Already Late Before My Application Saw It
Jun 2, 2026Takeaway:Today I followed a market data packet from the network card all the way to the application and realized that latency can appear long before our code even starts running.
