Summary
Rohan Prasad is a quantitative developer with eight years of experience building low-latency trading systems and distributed infrastructure, currently contributing to Cubist Systematic Strategies in Boston. His background spans systematic crypto HFT and core services engineering, with internships at top trading and tech firms including Jump, Citadel, and NVIDIA where he worked on C++, Kafka, and NVLink-related GPU architecture. Trained in computer engineering at UIUC, he also has hands-on robotics research experience from the Avatar XPRIZE project, reflecting a blend of hardware-minded systems thinking and production software delivery. Comfortable across the stack, Rohan brings practical expertise in high-frequency trading pipelines and a curiosity for robotics and distributed systems that informs his approach to resilient, performance-sensitive code.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Westford Academy
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Engineering at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign