Nitish Poddar

Nitish Poddar

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Co-Founder and CTO
San Francisco, California, United States

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  • Kastle YC S
    Co-Founder and CTO
    Kastle YC S
    May 2024 - Current (2 years 2 months)
    We're building AI for the financial services industry and are working with the largest mortgage lenders in America.
  • Verkada
    Software Engineer
    Verkada
    Feb 2022 - May 2024 (2 years 4 months)
  • CME Group
    Software Engineer Intern
    CME Group
    May 2021 - Dec 2021 (8 months)
  • University of Illinois UrbanaChampaign
    Research Assistant - TIMAN Group
    University of Illinois UrbanaChampaign
    May 2021 - Oct 2021 (6 months)
    Developing an algorithm to automatically extract key concepts and related concepts from lecture transcripts for online lectures using time series analysis and clustering methods
  • Illinois Business Consulting
    Project Manager
    Illinois Business Consulting
    Jan 2021 - May 2021 (5 months)
    Led a team of 8 consultants to develop an efficient business model and strategy for a client's service in a 12-week time frame.
  • Cargill
    Software Engineer Intern
    Cargill
    Jan 2021 - May 2021 (5 months)
    Identified trends and developed hypotheses targeted towards improving internal business processes by analyzing a large data set with more than 400,000 datapoints and 100 features using Tableau. Collaborated on a configurable dashboard to display real-time data through visualizations using React and Finsemble.
  • Illinois Business Consulting
    Consultant
    Illinois Business Consulting
    Aug 2020 - Dec 2020 (5 months)
    Applied blockchains and related technologies to implement a UI administration tool using React and Rust.
  • Panasonic North America
    Software Development Intern
    Panasonic North America
    Jun 2020 - Aug 2020 (3 months)
    Developed a chatbot with Python and Rasa using NLU pipelines while also designing and deploying a real-time data processing pipeline and dashboard utilizing Pandas and Docker.
  • University of Illinois UrbanaChampaign
    Research Assistant - Koyejo Lab
    University of Illinois UrbanaChampaign
    Jun 2020 - Dec 2021 (1 year 7 months)
    Implementing an agent for automated theorem proving by designing and training neural networks in Python with PyTorch.
  • University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign
    Research Assistant - Sarita Adve Research Group
    University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign
    Oct 2019 - Mar 2020 (6 months)
    Identified and mapped memory locations to heap-allocated variables through analysis x86 assembly code and C programs.
  • University of Illinois UrbanaChampaign
    Research Assistant - Forward Data Lab
    University of Illinois UrbanaChampaign
    Jun 2020 - Oct 2020 (5 months)
    Collaborating on ListenOnline, an app which allows users to collect and analyze data from social media, using React.js, MongoDB, Express.js and Node.js to develop tools to work with GraphQL schemas.
  • University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign
    Course Developer - CS 125
    University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign
    Aug 2019 - Dec 2019 (5 months)
    Worked to develop a lecture-slide tool to be used by 1000+ students each semester using React.js and Gatsby.
  • Varenium Growth Hackers
    Software Development Intern
    Varenium Growth Hackers
    Jun 2019 - Aug 2019 (3 months)
    Built an interactive bot for a local university to be used by 5000+ prospective applicants by developing the complete user interface, API and database for the bot using React.js, Node.js, Express.js and MongoDB.
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  • University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign
    Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science
    University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign
    Jan 2018 - Dec 2022 (5 years)
  • University of Illinois UrbanaChampaign
    Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science
    University of Illinois UrbanaChampaign
    Jan 2018 - Jan 2022 (4 years 1 month)
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    High School Diploma, ISC
    The Heritage School
    Jan 2005 - Dec 2018 (14 years)
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    FinStochModel
    Apr 2021
    Developing a forecasting tool using stochastic models by analyzing key financial ratios. Designed a data set of financial features for 150+ companies and identified trends using Tableau and Pandas
  • R
    Reinforcement Learning for Portfolio Management
    Mar 2021
    Implementing a portfolio management agent using reinforcement learning algorithms like DDPG, PPO and Policy Gradient. Designing neural network architectures using PyTorch to optimize the agent's investment strategy on a portfolio of 6 stocks.
  • D
    Data Compression CLI
    Aug 2019 - Dec 2019 (5 months)
    Designed an app with a Command-Line Interface (CLI) to compress and decompress text files with various algorithms like Huffman coding and Arithmetic coding.
  • G
    Gesture Recognition Engine App
    Jun 2019 - Aug 2019 (3 months)
    Created a web-app to recognize American Sign Language (ASL) gestures from device camera video and display them on the screen using a neural net.
  • N
    NCalculator
    Jun 2017 - Jul 2017 (2 months)
    Developed a scientific calculator with capabilities for matrix calculations, graph plotting, differentiation and integration and other basic scientific functions.
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