I'm Chintan N. Ruparel — a quant engineer and AI builder with 8+ years in financial markets, currently pursuing my Masters at NYU Tandon School of Engineering (MS Computer Engineering) and NYU Stern School of Business (MS Fintech & Entrepreneurship) in New York City.

At MachineTrader.io, I work on a ~$2M algorithmic portfolio — engineering latency-optimised HFT systems and AI-powered alpha strategies across live markets. As Research Assistant at NYU Stern under Prof. Edward Altman, I pioneer agentic AI frameworks for credit-risk model transparency in the BFSI sector.

I founded TWODS Capital in 2021 — a data-driven investment firm delivering 16%+ CAGR to 300+ clients with proprietary Python quant models and 600K+ annual site visits. I co-founded Escape Inc., shipping production-grade fintech products at startup velocity: 100ms load times, 99.9% uptime, CI/CD pipelines cutting release cycles 60%.

I've been selected as a Perplexity Business Fellow and serve as a Campus Leader at NYU, where I bridge the communities of finance, technology, and entrepreneurship. I'm licensed under NISM for equity and currency derivatives, and certified in Bloomberg Finance Fundamentals.

Three disciplines. One person. Infinite application. I don't choose between being a quant, an AI researcher, or a software engineer — I operate at all three simultaneously and build systems where they intersect.

chintan_ruparel.py
1class ChintanRuparel:
2  """Quant + AI + SWE — all three."""
3  def __init__(self):
4    self.role = "Quant + AI + SWE"
5    self.location = "New York City"
6    self.cagr = 0.164 # 16.4%
7    self.clients = 300 + 1
8    self.pnl = "~$300K"
9    self.markets = "8+ years"
10    self.open_to = "work"
11 
12  def build(self, idea):
13    return ship_to_production(idea)
Status
Available · New York City
Currently
Quant Intern, MachineTrader.io
Research Asst, NYU Stern
Education
MS CE NYU Tandon · MS Fintech NYU Stern
B.Tech CE, NMIMS (GPA 3.33)
Markets
8+ years — equities, derivatives, algo
Stack
Python · C++ · React · Node.js · SQL · R
Licenses
NISM — Equity & Currency Derivatives
Bloomberg Finance Fundamentals
Fellow
Perplexity Business Fellow · NYU Campus Leader
01 ──────
Quant & HFT

HFT pipelines, LSTM backtesting frameworks, AI-powered alpha on live multi-million dollar portfolios. 8+ years reading markets — now I engineer them at millisecond scale.

HFTLSTMRLBacktestingRisk Mgmt
02 ──────
AI & Machine Learning

Deep learning, NLP, agentic AI for BFSI. Biomedical CNN pipelines. Research-grade systems that go from notebook to production and stay there.

Deep LearningNLPCNNAgentic AI
03 ──────
Software Engineering

Full-stack products, DevOps, scalable cloud infra. Built things handling millions of visits with 99.9% uptime. Craft and speed, not one or the other.

ReactNode.jsDockerCI/CD
Education

The foundation.

NYU Tandon School of Engineering
MS Computer Engineering
Aug 2024 — May 2026 · New York
AI · Machine Learning · Internet Architecture · Algorithmic Portfolio Management · Advanced Computer Networks
NYU Stern School of Business
MS Fintech & Entrepreneurship
Jan 2025 — May 2026 · New York
Fintech · M&A Strategies · Bankruptcy & Restructuring · Financial Systems · Venture Building
NMIMS University · MPSTME · Mumbai
B.Tech Computer Engineering
2018 — 2024 · GPA 3.33
Data Mining · Neural Networks · Deep Learning · System Security · Operating Systems
Let's connect

Got something
worth building?

cr3745@nyu.edu