Christopher Rrapi
STEP Intern at Minutemen Alternative Investment Fund
Sharon, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolChristopher Rrapi is a computer science and mathematics student and versatile software engineer with eight years of practical experience spanning web development, DevOps, and quantitative trading. He currently interns on Google's YouTube Ads GenAI team, leads the tech team and product efforts for Wave Learning Festival, and co-heads a quant fund arm—demonstrating a rare blend of frontline engineering, team leadership, and market-driven quantitative strategy. A founder who turned algorithmic ideas into profitable trading (Volatility Vault) and a contributor to the popular discord.py project, he brings both entrepreneurial grit and open-source discipline to production systems. His hands-on work spans responsive React UIs, GraphQL/AWS performance optimizations, and large-scale backend tooling, with measurable wins like a ~2900ms GraphQL speed improvement and a 31% reduction in bounce rate. Comfortable from low-latency finance workflows to cloud CI/CD, Chris pairs a 4.0 academic record with curiosity-driven risk-taking and a knack for turning complex math into deployable software.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, 4.0/4.0, High School Diploma, 4.0/4.0 at Sharon High SchoolBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science and Mathematics (In Progress), 4.0/4.0, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science and Mathematics (In Progress), 4.0/4.0 at Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences, UMass AmherstComputer Science, A, Computer Science, A at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science and Mathematics (In Progress), 4.0/4.0, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science and Mathematics (In Progress), 4.0/4.0 at University of Massachusetts AmherstComputer Science, A, Computer Science, A at Harvard University
English, French, Spanish, Italian, Albanian, Swedish
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Github Skills (6)
discord-py10
python10
discord-js10
discord10
api-design9
documentation8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Rapptz/discord.py
Aug 2018 - Jan 2019
An API wrapper for Discord written in Python.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 8 PRs, 27 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Christopher contributed primarily to improving the discord.py library. Their work involved fixing typos, adding new features such as `Guild.default_notifications` and methods for `CategoryChannel`, and correcting documentation. They also addressed an AttributeError in a webhook function and fixed an example in the documentation.
apipythonapi-wrapperdiscordbot
TheRealchr1s/aioprint
Dec 2018 - Apr 2020
Provides an asynchronous interface for print by using aiofiles as a backend.
Contributions:10 commits, 3 PRs, 8 pushes in 1 year 4 months
pythonasynchronousasyncioaiofilesbackend
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