Summary
Soumitra Agarwal is a derivatives trader at Optiver in Amsterdam with 11 years of experience, specializing in volatility products and quantitative market-making. He holds a Bachelor's in Mathematics and Computing from IIT Guwahati and brings prior internship experience at Goldman Sachs to his trading toolkit. An active open-source contributor and former Google Summer of Code participant, he has built numerical and ML tooling for Scilab and maintained research-oriented repositories for multimodal communication projects. Based in Amsterdam, he blends rigorous mathematical training with hands-on engineering and cloud-based preprocessing pipelines, positioning him at the intersection of trading, data science, and open-source engineering.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Mathematics and Computing, 7.88, Bachelor’s Degree, Mathematics and Computing, 7.88 at Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati
CBSE, AISSE, Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, 93.4 %, CBSE, AISSE, Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, 93.4 % at India International School, Jaipur
English, Hindi