Siddharth Rout

nineteen, nyc, maths + cs @ columbia Last played Spotify

About

Studying maths and CS at Columbia. Right now I'm running partnerships at CORE (Columbia's largest entrepreneurship community) and building Columbia Software Solutions (free software for NYC). This summer I'll be at Innefu Labs, and before that I was building cool things at a General Catalyst-backed fintech in New York and at RAYS Capital in Hong Kong. Mostly I'm just jet-lagged.

Currently

Incoming
SWE @ Innefu Labs Series A. Real-time inference pipelines for AI and cybersecurity platforms used by government and enterprise clients across Asia and the Middle East.
VP Partnerships
CORE Columbia's largest entrepreneurship organisation — sourcing speakers, sponsors, and partner companies across the NYC ecosystem. If you're doing cool things in the startup space and interested in partnering with us, reach out at coreboard@columbia.edu.
Founding Team
Columbia Software Solutions Building free production software for NYC nonprofits, small businesses, and early-stage startups. 5+ client engagements per semester. If you're an NYC-based nonprofit/small business/literally anyone that needs something built (for free) reach out at siddharth.rout@columbia.edu.

Selected work

competition · 2026

IMC Prosperity 4

Algorithmic trading competition combining live programmatic rounds against bots with manual game-theoretic rounds. Built market-making engines on five simultaneous instruments, options-pricing infrastructure (GBM Monte Carlo, IV-surface fitting), and Bayesian opponent modeling for the auction rounds — predicted realized bid distributions with ~80% accuracy.

result

340 / 22,000 · Top 2% · Top 100 USA

stack

Python · NumPy · SciPy

competition · 2026

Bridgewater × Metaculus

Geopolitical and macro forecasting competition. Built an ensemble system combining Tetlock's superforecasting framework — base-rate anchoring, Fermi decomposition, Bayesian updating — with a 4-agent LLM debate pipeline (propose → critique → refine → judge), aggregated via geometric mean of odds and extremized against historical resolved questions.

result

100 / 3,132 · Top 3%

stack

Python · LLM orchestration

project · 2026

Sundial

Columbia-specific prediction market, built solo end-to-end. Continuous double-auction matching engine for liquid books, with LMSR automated market making for cold-start liquidity on new markets. Real-time WebSocket price feeds and 20+ campus-outcome markets staged for go-live.

status

500-trader waitlist

stack

Next.js · Supabase · Tailwind

project · 2025

Govo

Food recommendation iOS app, co-founded and live on the App Store. Builds a per-user taste model from in-app swipe interactions and serves real-time recommendations. Pretrained text embeddings with cosine similarity over running user swipe vectors — 92% pairwise accuracy after 20 swipes.

users

2,000+ · 40% wk-1 retention

stack

Swift · TypeScript · Firebase

project · 2025

Roomio

Roommate-matching app for university students. Swipe-based discovery on top of a lifestyle-preference matching engine (budget, cleanliness, sleep schedule, social style) with mutual-match gating. Cross-platform Flutter client backed by a FastAPI/Postgres service with JWT auth and Supabase-hosted photo uploads, deployed on Fly.io.

platform

iOS · Android

stack

Flutter · FastAPI · Supabase

Personal stats

Countries visited
23 (lived in 4)
Fashion shows walked
1
F1 races watched
223 since Bahrain 2016
Most-played song, lifetime
Feel No Ways by Drake
Restaurants ranked on Beli
39
LeetCode problems solved
n · forgotten by next week: n − 1
Projects started but never completed
too many to count

(and counting!)

Reach out

If the work above looks interesting, I'd love to hear from you. The fastest way to reach me is email.