Prerit Das
Co-Founder & CTO at Return the Fund
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolPrerit Das is an NYU Stern student double-majoring in Finance with four years of entrepreneurial and technical experience building AI-first data infrastructure and media products. He’s co-founded high-growth ventures that span attention-driven publishing and large-scale browser data platforms, and has served as CTO at Standard where teams explored agents, data infra, blockchain, and attention systems. Prerit blends hands-on ML and MLOps work—fine-tuning SLMs and building model observability pipelines—with venture diligence, having researched AI agent infrastructure for investors and taught VC journalism to peers. He writes widely read tech commentary for founders and VCs and mentors students, reflecting a rare mix of product, technical execution, and narrative craft for someone early in their career.
4 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Berklee Summer Programs Aspire Music Performance Intensive, Berklee Summer Programs Aspire Music Performance Intensive at Berklee College of MusicBachelor of Science - BS Finance, Bachelor of Science - BS Finance at NYU Stern School of BusinessHaileyburyHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at The Overlake SchoolColumbia Pre-College Programs Investment Portfolio Management, Columbia Pre-College Programs Investment Portfolio Management at Columbia UniversityStanford Pre-Collegiate Studies Business and Strategic Marketing, Stanford Pre-Collegiate Studies Business and Strategic Marketing at Stanford University
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Github Skills (165)
postgresql10
python10
stock-price10
optuna10
finnhub10
api10
financial-markets10
algorithm10
stock10
rotten-tomatoes10
trend10
prisma10
tailwindcss10
moving-average10
backtesting-trading-strategies10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
preritdas/allocator
Mar 2022 - Sep 2022
A fully autonomous, dynamic portfolio manager. Re-balances positions and allocates free cash daily, while generating reports.
Contributions:3 releases, 135 commits, 2 PRs in 5 months
reactautonomousreportstradingdynamic-portfolio
preritdas/wooster-trading-systems
Aug 2022 - Dec 2022
A set of trading strategies with an in-built backtester, optimizer, data management system, CLI, and website.
Contributions:562 commits, 2 PRs, 49 pushes in 4 months
algo-tradingcliclickfinancepython
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