Paran Sonthalia
Quant Dev at DeWaste
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolParan Sonthalia is a Quantitative Developer at Citadel with a decade of software engineering experience and a 4.0 CS + Data Science degree from UC Berkeley. He builds core platform infrastructure for EQR while bringing a founder’s mindset as CEO and co-founder of DeWaste, a venture that reflects his interest in applying tech to real-world sustainability challenges. His background includes internships at Amazon and Citadel Securities and leadership roles at startups like MealMe, demonstrating fluency across high-performance trading systems, growth engineering, and product development. Based in Mountain View, he combines academic rigor and hands-on systems work—an engineer who moves smoothly between research, controls engineering (Berkeley Hyperloop), and production-grade software. An early serial founder (Mango Apps) and active campus researcher, he’s comfortable launching products and optimizing low-latency systems under tight constraints.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science and Data Science, 4.0, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science and Data Science, 4.0 at University of California, BerkeleyHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Mountain View High School
English, Hindi, Spanish
Stackoverflow
179reputation
9kreached
1answer
10questions
Github Skills (24)
python9
machine-learning9
deep-learning9
tensorflow8
data-science7
neural-network7
ml7
transfer-learning7
cocoa-touch6
swift6
geopandas6
scenekit6
gif6
ios6
google-cloud-platform6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
psonthalia/psonthalia.github.io
Aug 2016 - Oct 2021
Contributions:140 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 3 months
dsillman2000/Aeterna
Mar 2017 - Jun 2022
Contributions:5 pushes, 4 comments in 5 years 3 months
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