Rachit Plah
Founder And CEO at xrHUM
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolRachit Plah is a founder and CEO based in Bengaluru with 8 years of experience at the intersection of quantitative finance, machine learning, and high-frequency trading. He pairs a strong engineering background from multiple roles at HP with graduate-level specialization in Quantitative Finance and Risk Management from IIT Kanpur. Rachit has moved between hands-on R&D, leadership, and entrepreneurship—co-founding startups and leading engineering teams while launching his current venture xrHUM. His work blends research-driven modeling (quant/quantum interests) with practical ML systems and blockchain experimentation, reflecting a curiosity for emerging tech beyond conventional stacks. Known for collaborative project work on GitHub, he emphasizes shipping product-ready solutions and cross-disciplinary collaboration. Colleagues describe him as a technically versatile leader who turns academic rigor into commercial execution.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology KanpurICSE, General Studies, ICSE, General Studies at Sacred Heart School, DalhousieBachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science at Chitkara University
English, Hindi
Github Skills (26)
portal7
translate7
localization7
creative-commons6
translation6
flutter-widget4
internet3
android3
dart3
flutter3
high-speed3
flutter-apps3
intranet2
gnu2
azure2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
rachitplah/ChitkaraLocalCloud
May 2019 - Aug 2019
This project purpose was to make a local cloud which was locally available to users who accessed the university internet so that there could be high speed delivery of content over the intranet.
Contributions:31 commits, 4 PRs, 35 pushes in 3 months
speedlocallypurposecloudhigh-speed
rachitplah/TranslationApp
Mar 2019 - Aug 2019
A translation portal that helps effectively translate from one language to other.
Contributions:113 commits, 2 PRs, 66 pushes in 5 months
one-languagetranslationportaltranslatecreative-commons
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