Virat Singh
Founder at Financial Datasets
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVirat Singh is a founder and seasoned software engineer with 11 years of experience building data-driven systems for consumer and financial products, now leading a startup that provides stock market infrastructure for AI agents. He previously drove search, listing quality, and shipping at Faire and worked on investment products at Acorns, with earlier engineering roles at Airbnb, GoPro, and Sony that span search, payments, mobile apps, and R&D. His background in economics and computer science (UCSD, Stanford) and a two-year stint in investment banking give him a rare combination of product, engineering, and finance fluency. An active contributor to an AI hedge fund repo, he focuses on backend logic, agent prompting, and financial metrics tooling—practical work that bridges research-grade agents and production backtests. Based in New York, he’s interested in continuous learning and building systems where ML agents can operate on real market data.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San DiegoComputer Science, Computer Science at Stanford University
Swedish, Hindi, English
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Github Skills (14)
back-end-development10
langchain10
python10
pydantic9
prompt-engineering9
api8
data-analysis8
apidoc8
google-places-api6
scroll6
android-recyclerview6
android6
google-maps6
android-layout6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
virattt/ai-hedge-fund
Nov 2024 - Apr 2025
An AI Hedge Fund Team
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:32 reviews, 29 PRs, 187 pushes in 4 months
Contributions summary:Virat made several changes focusing on the back-end logic and data processing within the AI hedge fund repository. The primary focus was on updating and refining agent outputs, including improvements to prompting and the addition of a new financial metrics tool. Additionally, the user refactored existing code to add a parameter for showing agent decisions during the backtest and other enhancements.
virattt/fd-docs
Jun 2024 - Mar 2025
Contributions:1 PR, 166 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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