Viraj Maddur
Member Of Technical Staff at Headlands Technologies LLC
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolViraj Maddur is an 8-year software and quantitative researcher specializing in high-frequency trading, market microstructure, and automated pricing systems, currently a Member of Technical Staff at Decagon after quantitative roles at Headlands, DRW, Jump, and Jump's peers. He blends production-grade software engineering (C++, Python, POSIX networking) with statistical and ML-driven research—building backtesting engines, explainable revenue models, and RL experiments for order management. Comfortable across startup and HFT environments, he has practical experience shipping market-making algorithms and venue simulators as well as teaching competitive programming at UT Austin. Outside of work he’s a self-described cynophilist and Ultimate Frisbee enthusiast, and once took “gardening leave” literally to tend to Lego plants—hinting at a pragmatic curiosity and playful engineering mindset.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science (Turing Scholars Honors Program), Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science (Turing Scholars Honors Program) at The University of Texas at AustinHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Cypress Bay High School
Github Skills (20)
python10
data-structures10
collections10
facebook7
sequence7
ctc6
pytorch6
nlp5
natural-language-processing5
machine-learning5
artificial-intelligence5
sequence-to-sequence4
conformer3
transformer-architecture3
lego-mindstorms2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
vmaddur/Competitive_Programming
Jul 2017 - Jul 2020
Solutions to Problems From Programming Contests
Contributions:1226 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 1 month
pythonleetcodeproblemscompetitive-programmingdata-structures
thelokeshgoel00/Competitive_Programming
Jul 2017 - Jul 2020
Solutions to Problems From Programming Contests
Contributions:1274 commits in 3 years 1 month
pythonleetcodeproblemscompetitive-programmingdata-structures
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