hey, i'm neel, a cs student at georgia tech studying systems and ai. i'm drawn to problems where math and performance meet — most of my work sits at the intersection of statistics, numerical computing, and low-level systems, written in c++, python, or go.

outside of school and projects i play soccer and valorant, and try to read as much as i can.

awards

imc prosperity 478th globally · 25th in the us
april 2026

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
    georgia tech

    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

languages
c++20pythongoczigjavajsbash
libraries
pytorchjaxtensorflowcudanumpypandasopenmppybind11scikitlearnopencvgrpcprotobufwasm
tools
dockerkubernetesawsredispostgresqlprometheuskafkajupytercmakelinuxgitperfvalgrindflamegraph

want to work together or just talk shop? neel@neels.dev