Lior Hirschfeld
Engineering at Kalshi
Greater Boston United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLior Hirschfeld is an MIT student studying Mathematics and Computer Science with a minor in Literature, blending technical rigor with a humanistic perspective on digital communication and self-expression. He has built production systems and data pipelines during internships at Google and D. E. Shaw and now works in engineering at Kalshi, applying analytical thinking to real-world products. His research experience in Regina Barzilay’s NLP group and in mathematical graph theory reflects a comfort moving between applied ML, confidence estimation, and theoretical work. Practically proficient in Python, JavaScript, Go, and modern web stacks, he has shipped features from model-driven pipelines to user-facing dashboards. Lior’s background designing hybrid courses and studying literature in London informs a distinct interest in how technology reshapes learning and expression. He combines a decade of hands-on experience with curiosity-driven projects that sit at the intersection of computation and communication.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Phillips AcademyMathematics and Computer Science, Mathematics and Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyHigh School, Computer Science and Entrepreneurship, High School, Computer Science and Entrepreneurship at Stanford University
English, Hebrew, Chinese
Stackoverflow
821reputation
45kreached
2answers
3questions
cordova
top-5%
firebase
top-5%
Github Skills (31)
molecule10
drug-discovery10
machine-learning10
chemistry10
deep-learning10
message-passing10
prediction10
proteins10
cordova9
firebase9
flutter-plugin8
plugin8
wkwebview7
webview7
inline7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Kalshi/kalshi-scripts
Apr 2022 - Apr 2022
Contributions:16 commits, 1 PR, 4 pushes in 3 days
lhirschfeld/JargonBot
Mar 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:27 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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