Neerav Mehta
Quantitative Researcher, Developer & Trader
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNeerav Mehta is a Bay Area-based quantitative researcher, developer, and founder with 11+ years building production-grade software and algorithmic trading systems. He leads Red Crackle, an offshore engineering firm serving clients like Salesforce, Databricks, Netflix and PayPal, while hiring senior, US-hour–friendly engineers across San Jose and India. As a self-employed quant, he engineered a custom C++ multi-threaded backtester that evaluates 64 million strategies over 15 years of 1-minute bars and runs on an 8-CPU EPYC rack server cooled by a bespoke water loop in his garage. He also built an automated C++ strategy-generation framework that produces ~100 new strategies daily, paired with Python/Pandas ML for annual portfolio selection and a current portfolio Sharpe of 1.5. Comfortable across systems from front-end UX tweaks (contributions to Kong docs) to low-level C++ and ClickHouse-backed analytics, he blends hands-on engineering with practical deployment and ops. His combination of hardware tinkering, deep quant research, and client-facing product delivery makes him as comfortable shipping backend infrastructure as advising startups on scalable engineering teams.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
CFA Level 3 Finance, CFA Level 3 Finance at CFA InstituteIndian Institute of Technology BombayM.S. Electrical Engineering, M.S. Electrical Engineering at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignNew Era School
English, Hindi, Gujarati
Stackoverflow
143reputation
14kreached
7answers
6questions
Github Skills (10)
html10
css10
ui-design9
responsive-design9
javascript8
ajax6
amp-html6
drupal6
cmake6
php6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Kong/docs.konghq.com
Aug 2018 - Oct 2018
🦍 Source code for docs.konghq.com website.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 2 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Neerav primarily focused on making content and UI/UX changes to the Kong documentation website. They updated the summit banner text and removed an announcement banner. Additionally, they modified forms, including changes to Pardot URLs and the newsletter subscription form handler. The user also tweaked CSS to improve the layout, specifically addressing responsive design issues related to an email icon.
documentation-site
redcrackle/redtest-core
Feb 2015 - Jan 2019
Contributions:21 commits, 122 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 11 months
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