$ whoami
Saksham Arora · I build things where the interesting constraint is the data.
Data Science · Quant Research · Systems · C++20
I'm Saksham, a CS student doing two degrees at once: a BS in Data Science at IIT Madras and a B.Tech in Computer Science at GGSIPU, New Delhi. I'm becoming an AI engineer, and I learn by shipping things I use every day: Margin turns the lectures I watch into study notes in Obsidian, and Latch pins a lecture in full screen so Escape does nothing.
- Now: joining a research project at Columbia University · data engineering intern at Cimplifie (since Oct 2024)
- Before: AI Engineer Intern at Tieout (Aug to Sep 2026), turning messy financial audit PDFs into structured data for audit agents · Data Science Intern at Airtel Xtelify (Jun to Jul 2026), a recommendation system on PySpark for Airtel's streaming platform
- Competitions: IMC Prosperity 4, rank 154 of 18,800+ teams (top ~0.8%) · 6th in AlphaNova's Global Quant Competition 5, featured in their writeup
- Hackathons: won the Elastic × Google Cloud Hacknight (Delhi) and Paytm's GenAI Hackathon · finalist at the AMD Developer Challenge, NASA Space Apps 2025 and Ulster's Agentic AI Hackathon
- Also: selected for OpenAI DevDay 2026 · Grade 8 drums, Trinity College London
find me: saksham.digital · blog · X · LinkedIn · YouTube · Kaggle · Hugging Face · LeetCode · saksham10arora@gmail.com