Jay Nagpaul
Software Engineer at Jane Street
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJay Nagpaul is a software engineer with nine years of hands-on experience building infrastructure and research-focused systems, currently working in research engineering at Jane Street. He’s interned at top-tier firms including OpenAI, Optiver, and Bloomberg—earning return offers for strong technical impact on ML infra, durable inference, and low-latency systems. Comfortable in C++ (and even a bit of Zig), he has roots in bioinformatics and data pipelines from early work at UMass Chan and a history of teaching programming to younger students. A Georgia Tech student with dual enrollment coursework at WPI, Jay blends rigorous academics with practical experience across trading, ML, and research codebases—plus a personable streak that once sold popcorn while catching early Marvel screenings.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Bachelor's degree at Georgia Institute of TechnologyDual Enrollment Mathematics and Computer Science, Dual Enrollment Mathematics and Computer Science at Worcester Polytechnic InstituteHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Massachusetts Academy of Math and Science at WPI
Github Skills (170)
javascript10
instagram-api10
doc10
api10
nodejs10
css10
react10
middleware9
markdown9
cli9
instagram9
rest-api9
command-line-tool9
math9
codebase9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
GTBitsOfGood/heart-of-passion
Aug 2023 - Feb 2025
Retreat Planning Tool for Heart of Passion
Contributions:19 reviews, 63 PRs, 180 pushes in 1 year 5 months
jaynagpaul/jaynagpaul.github.io
Apr 2017 - Jan 2022
Contributions:43 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 9 months
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