Virik Jain

Virik jain

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    SDE-2 @ D. E. Shaw

  • Education

    • Rustomjee international school

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      Ssc 95.00%
    • Pace junior science college

      2015 - 2017
      Hsc 86.46%
    • Veermata jijabai technological institute (vjti)

      2017 - 2021
      Bachelor of technology - btech computer engineering cgpa: 9.09/10

      Activities and Societies: Department Coordinator, IEEE VJTI Member, Community Of Coders

  • Experience

    • Indian institute of information technology allahabad

      May 2019 - Jun 2019
      Research intern

      –Worked in Data Analytics Lab under Center for Cognitive Computing.–Implemented an improved version of ID3 Decision Tree Classifier algorithm in Python that led to 37.15% average reduction in Training Time and 74.9% average reduction in Tree Depth.–Built ML models on Chronic Kidney Disease Prediction on Imbalanced Data using SMOTE, Multilayer Perceptron, SVM and Random Forest using both Python and WEKA.

    • Samsung india

      May 2020 - Jun 2020
      Software engineer intern

      - Worked with the SRI-B NLU(Natural Language Understanding) group of Voice Intelligence R&D Team on Phonetic Transliteration of Named Entities from English to Korean.- Built Deep Neural Networks(Transformer and Seq2Seq) and Decision Tree models for the same.- Achieved a competitive Character Level Accuracy of ~80%.

    • The d. e. shaw group

      Jun 2021 - now

      - Working in the Convertible Arbitrage Strategies and Credit Opportunities team.- Building full stack applications for traders, analysts and portfolio managers using ReactJS and Python.- Built an order tracking and order placement application that automated traders' workflow and helped them scale their orders 5x.- Took full ownership of the app and independently built it end-to-end from DB, UI, APIs.- Worked on key enhancements to a real-time market tracking application.- Building a new real-time market and trading idea tracking system for Credit and Distressed Credit market trading. Tech stack: Java, Kafka, Python, Typescript.- Engaged with multiple stakeholders and delivered the high priority product in timely manner. Show less

      • Senior Member Technical

        Jun 2023 - now
      • Member Technical

        Jun 2021 - Jun 2023
  • Licenses & Certifications

  • Honors & Awards

    • Awarded to Virik Jain
      Winner, KJSIEIT Game of Codes K. J. Somaiya Institute of Engineering and Information Technology September 1, 2019 Won the competitive coding event Game of Codes along with Harsh Prabhu among 100+ teams.
    • Awarded to Virik Jain
      2nd Place, Technical Quiz , CSI Mumbai CSI Mumbai February 1, 2018 The Quiz was a part of Technext 2018 event by CSI (Computer Society of India) Mumbai Chapter at IIT Bombay.
    • Awarded to Virik Jain
      2nd Place in TechnoHunt Technovanza 2017 December 1, 2017 A coding event of Technovanza 2017 , VJTI .
    • Awarded to Virik Jain
      2nd place in CodeHunt Community Of Coders (COC) , VJTI November 1, 2017 A coding event by COC , the coding club of VJTI .