Shikhir Arora
President at SaroraIO - Freelance
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolShikhir Arora is a multidisciplinary technologist and president of small ventures blending corporate development, finance, and applied research across IoT, machine learning, cryptography, and signal processing. With a decade of experience leading The SARO Group and Giesela Inc., he designs privacy-conscious ML systems—using differential privacy and secure retrieval—to tackle real-world ranking, topic modeling, and automated signal-mapping problems. He pairs rigorous mathematical training in econometrics and theoretical math with hands-on systems work, from low-latency audio engineering to Discord app development and startup operations. Comfortable as both an operator and a maker, he runs small teams, handles corporate finance and licensing, and occasionally ships production code. Outside of formal roles he pursues cryptographic design and audio/signal research that feeds novel cross-disciplinary projects in finance and visualization. Based in Philadelphia, he uniquely bridges academic rigor with pragmatic product-building in niche, privacy-sensitive ML and audio domains.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Mathematics and Economics Econometrics and Quantitative Economics Theoretical Mathematics Philosophy & Metaphysics , Mathematics and Economics Econometrics and Quantitative Economics Theoretical Mathematics Philosophy & Metaphysics at University of Pittsburgh
Hindi, French, English
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Github Skills (144)
end-to-end-encryption10
ec10
discord-rpc10
python10
pgp10
chat10
command-line-tool10
client-library10
modular10
discord-js10
pm210
ytdl10
youtube10
audio10
api10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
shikhir-arora/discord.py
Feb 2021 - May 2024
An API wrapper for Discord written in Python.
Contributions:13 PRs, 19 pushes, 19 branches in 3 years 2 months
apipythonapi-wrapperdiscordbot
shikhir-arora/karma-simple
Dec 2016 - Nov 2022
A simple, lightweight and functional Discord Karma tracking bot for guild members.
Contributions:11 releases, 2 reviews, 226 commits in 6 years
discord-jsdiscorddiscordjsbotkarmabot
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