Sidhant Nagpal
Technical Lead, Asia-Pacific at Tower Research Capital
Singapore
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Top SchoolSidhant Nagpal is a Technical Lead based in Singapore with 8 years of experience building low-latency trading systems and market data platforms for Asia-Pacific at Tower Research Capital. He combines deep systems engineering for high-frequency trading with machine learning research—his undergraduate GAN work was published at IJCNN. An active open-source contributor, he improved core math routines in the widely used SymPy library during Google Summer of Code, showing attention to numerical correctness and optimization. Comfortable both leading teams and shipping performance-critical backend code, he has experience across equities and derivatives markets globally and a track record of turning complex market microstructure requirements into robust, low-latency solutions.
8 years of coding experience
Bachelor's Degree Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science at Netaji Subhas Institute of TechnologyUniversity of Delhi
English
Github Skills (12)
mathematics10
math-functions10
computer-algebra10
math10
python10
maths10
testing10
algorithms9
data-structure9
algorithm9
data-structures9
numpy5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
sympy/sympy
Feb 2018 - Jul 2019
A computer algebra system written in pure Python
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:224 commits, 66 PRs, 31 pushes in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Sidhant primarily contributed to the optimization and enhancement of mathematical functions within the SymPy library, a computer algebra system written in Python. Their work included optimizing modular exponentiation calculations for large powers and adding functionality to handle complex number bases for various functions like Abs, and trigonometric functions. The user also added new test cases to ensure the accuracy and robustness of the implemented functions. Furthermore, the user made several code cleanup improvements, such as removing assert comments, and removed trailing spaces.
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sidhantnagpal/sympy
Feb 2018 - Aug 2019
A computer algebra system written in pure Python
Contributions:1 PR, 230 pushes, 52 branches in 1 year 6 months
pythoncomputer-algebra-systemsymbolic-mathalgebrarelational-algebra
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