Viraj Sinha
Senior Software Engineer at Relativity Space
California, United States
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Top SchoolViraj Sinha is a senior software engineer with 13 years’ experience building reliable, high-performance services for mission-critical domains, most recently at Relativity Space after an impactful tenure writing trading desk infrastructure at Jane Street. He is a pragmatic generalist who balances risk, latency, developer velocity, and technical debt to deliver tools traders and operators can trust under stress. Known for staying calm in high-pressure situations, he excels at collaborating with non-programmer stakeholders—quant traders, operations, and legal—to turn domain needs into usable software. Viraj enjoys mentoring and has helped onboard and grow teams as an early desk member, specifying large projects and guiding execution. He contributes to open-source front-end projects such as xterm.js, where he improved terminal selection behavior across OSes and added robust tests, reflecting attention to cross-platform UX and correctness. Based in California with a BSc from Purdue and time at the Recurse Center, he combines deep practical experience with a continuous-learning mindset.
13 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Bachelor of Science (BSc) at Purdue UniversityNever Graduate, Never Graduate at Recurse Center
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Github Skills (21)
javascript10
typescript10
terminal-emulator10
terminal-application10
front-end-development10
typescript-types10
xterm10
typescripts10
testing9
console8
azure6
macos6
nodejs6
excel6
dockerfile6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
xtermjs/xterm.js
Jun 2018 - Jun 2018
A terminal for the web
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 2 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Viraj focused on enhancing the terminal's selection functionality. Their primary contributions included implementing column selection support, adapting it based on the operating system (macOS vs. Windows/Linux). They also added a toggle to disable column selections on macOS, modifying the terminal's options and behavior. Furthermore, the user implemented several tests to verify the column selection features, ensuring accurate behavior with various characters and scenarios.
clixterm-jsvt100browserterminal-emulators
vsinha/classy_finder
Mar 2015 - Jun 2017
Contributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 5 pushes in 2 years 2 months
icon-finderosxiconfindermacos
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