01About

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'm at Optipro AI, and most recently 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.

02Currently
Incoming
Building mobile and browser agents over real-time Swiggy and Zomato delivery data.
VP Partnerships
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
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 sr4370@columbia.edu.
03Experience
Optipro AI
Software Engineer | Mobile App Agents
2026Bengaluru
Stealth Startup (General Catalyst backed)
Software Engineer Intern | Browser Agents / Orchestration
2026New York
RAYS Capital
Quantitative Systems Engineer | Trading Systems
2026Hong Kong
Columbia University
Applied ML Research | Prof. Nakul Verma
2025–26New York
Gulf Intel
Co-founder | Custom Software for Middle Eastern SMEs
2024–25Bahrain
STC Bahrain
Software Engineer | Multilingual Transcription / Translation
2024Bahrain
Oxford University
SFUDA Research Assistant | Dr. Pramit Saha
2023–24Oxford
CSM Technologies
Machine Learning Engineer | Recruitment Automation
2023India
Discovera
Founder | Making SMEs Visible
2021–22Bahrain
04Selected work

Systematic mispricing engine for Kalshi's short-dated crypto binaries, deployed on real capital across concurrent BTC and ETH bots. Contracts settle on a 60-second TWAP, so once ~45 of 60 samples are banked the outcome is near-determined while the book still quotes off live price. Vela reconstructs the settling average in real time from Binance + Kalshi WebSocket feeds — with a causal basis de-bias for the ~3.5 bps Binance→RTI premium — and fires maker or taker orders only when expected value clears modeled fees, gated by per-asset confidence thresholds (BTC ≥0.84, ETH ≥0.98).

5.6¢ edge / contract Python · WebSockets · SQLite View repo →

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.

340 / 22,000 · Top 2% · Top 100 USA Python · NumPy · SciPy

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.

104 / 3,132 · Top 4% Python · LLM orchestration

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.

500-trader waitlist Next.js · Supabase · Tailwind View repo →

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.

2,000+ users · 40% wk-1 retention Swift · TypeScript · Firebase App Store →

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.

iOS · Android Flutter · FastAPI · Supabase View repo →
05Personal
Countries visited
22 (lived in 4)
Fashion shows walked
1
F1 races watched
223 (since Bahrain 2016)
Most-played song, lifetime
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!)

06Reach out

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

Countries visited