Rishabh Thakkar
Software Engineer at Optiver
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRishabh Thakkar is a software engineer with nine years of experience building low-latency trading systems, distributed services, and high-performance transportation software. Currently on the Options Trading Platform team at Optiver, he has a strong background in real-time market event processing and automation from multiple internships that sit at the foundation of automated trading stacks. He holds an MS in Computational Science, Engineering, and Mathematics and completed research on hierarchical game-theoretic control for multi-agent autonomous racing, blending optimization, path planning, and hierarchical decision making. Past projects include parallelized traffic assignment algorithms for regional planning, firmware and HIL tooling for Tesla steering systems, and a non-blocking multi-master inventory system at Adobe, demonstrating both systems and embedded experience. Rishabh enjoys solving problems with mathematical modeling and optimization, and is equally likely to be found tuning algorithms as watching Formula 1. Based in Chicago, he brings a research-driven mindset to production-grade, performance-critical software.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at The University of Texas at AustinPlano East Senior High School
English, Gujarati, French, Hindi
Github Skills (43)
lxd10
criu10
hierarchical10
virtual-machine10
lxc10
racing9
pickup9
markov-chain9
multi-agent-reinforcement-learning9
go9
monte-carlo9
dispatch9
bezier8
cplex8
mdp8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
spartalab/tap-b
Nov 2019 - Apr 2022
C implementation of Algorithm B, aiming to economize on memory
Contributions:4 reviews, 147 commits, 14 PRs in 2 years 5 months
ribsthakkar/Para-Delta-Step
Feb 2019 - Mar 2019
Contributions:32 commits, 28 pushes, 1 branch in 16 days
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