Harshit Patni
Core Developer Team Lead at Hudson River Trading
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolHarshit Patni is a London-based Core Developer Team Lead at Hudson River Trading with 10 years of experience building low-latency, production-grade software across finance and data-visualization domains. He progressed from intern to lead roles at Bloomberg and HRT, blending hands-on coding with technical leadership in high-performance trading systems. An IIIT Hyderabad alumnus and Google Summer of Code contributor, he has a history of improving widely-used open-source projects like matplotlib, focusing on clearer examples and documentation. Known for clarity of code and mentorship, he pairs deep algorithmic instincts with pragmatism in shipping reliable systems under pressure.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
High School Physics Chemistry Maths English Computer Science, High School Physics Chemistry Maths English Computer Science at Shri Vaishnav AcademyBachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer Science at International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIITH)
English, Hindi
Github Skills (7)
data-visualizations10
data-visualization10
data-visualisation10
python10
data-science10
matplotlib10
documentation9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
matplotlib/matplotlib
Feb 2017 - Jun 2017
matplotlib: plotting with Python
Role in this project:
Data Scientist
Data ScientistContributions:39 commits, 18 PRs, 115 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Harshit primarily contributed to the matplotlib library by modifying and improving existing example code. Their work included removing unnecessary matrix examples, refactoring code to use `plt.gca` for existing axes, and removing spaces from comments. Additionally, the user merged and refactored demo code, along with updating and correcting documentation related to the Gitter link and colorbar tutorials, demonstrating a focus on code clarity and documentation.
pythondata-sciencegtkdata-visualizationplotting
patniharshit/oldpatniharshit.github.io
May 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:65 pushes, 2 issues in 2 months
my-blogjekyll
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