Sailesh Patnala

Sailesh Patnala is a founding engineer at pave.dev. Sailesh previously worked as a software engineer at BlackRock from July 2018 to August 2020. There, they built data pipelines to ingest large unstructured datasets from Bloomberg & DowJones news using Scala and Spark. Sailesh also developed a Python library for financial researchers to leverage NLP functionalities like sentiment analysis, entity recognition, and topic modeling. Additionally, they contributed to a model for boilerplate content recognition in broker reports to improve the accuracy of sentiment scores and support ticker-based analysis. Sailesh was part of BlackRock's 2-year Software Engineering Rotation Program, where they worked on various projects, including portfolio management tools, investment systems shared infrastructure, alpha generation platform - fixed income research, and portfolio analytics - FutureAdvisor. Prior to BlackRock, Sailesh worked as a web developer and IT support at UC Davis Department of Anthropology from September 2016 to May 2018.

Sailesh Patnala has a Master of Engineering from Cornell University in Computer Science and a Bachelor of Science from the University of California, Davis in Computer Science and Engineering. Sailesh also has certification from Coursera in Investment Strategies and Portfolio Analysis, Bias and Portfolio Selection, Portfolio Selection and Risk Management, Global Financial Markets and Instruments, and Applied Machine Learning in Python.

A direct report to Sailesh Patnala is and Yacine Nouri - Director, Engineering. Sailesh Patnala reports to Raymond Rouf, Co-Founder & CEO. They are on a team with Alain Shema - Founding Data Scientist, Lennon Chimbumu - Founding Engineer, and Jack Tannenbaum - Head of Business Operations.