hey, i'm neel, a student at georgia tech studying computer science. i like taking apart complex, messy problems and figuring out how to make them fast, reliable, or just less painful to work with.
awards
five-round algorithmic trading competition. built market-making, arbitrage, and options strategies in python across equities, etfs, and synthetic derivatives.learn more
built agora at the world's largest collegiate hackathon (2,000+ hackers). an ai agent marketplace that routes tasks to the most cost-efficient models in parallel, with on-chain payments via sui.
built prism, an ai explainability tool that makes model predictions and data transformations transparent — using shap to surface why a model made a given decision.
experience
- software engineer internincoming summer 2026
oracle
building distributed microservices infrastructure in go.
- ml researcherjan 2026 — present
automated algorithm design lab
using llm-guided evolutionary search to discover novel algorithm structures.
- undergraduate researcherdec 2025 — present
studying how llm assistance affects bias and acceptance rates in academic peer review. advised by prof. juba ziani.
- software engineerjun 2023 — dec 2025
ivue
built cloud backend and embedded firmware for internet-connected fpv drones.
- software engineeraug 2025 — dec 2025
ios club @ gt
built a swift app that won first place at the club's internal demo day.
stack
c++20
rust
python
go
c
zig
java
js
bash
pytorch
jax
tensorflow
cuda
numpy
pandasopenmppybind11
scikitlearn
opencvgrpcprotobuf
wasm
docker
kubernetes
aws
redis
postgresql
prometheus
kafka
jupyter
cmake
linux
gitperfvalgrindflamegraphwant to work together or just talk shop? neel@neels.dev