Pranav Maral
Amsterdam,NH
Summary
Motivated Trader, CS undergrad always looking forward to working with smart people to solve competitive problems. Adept at decision making and quick thinking. Enjoy running on a sunny day and eSports.
Overview
4
4
years of professional experience
Work History
Quant Trader
Optiver
08.2023 - Current
- Trading Single Stock Options in US stocks.
- Designed a strategy for the NASDAQ closing cross with a Annnualised Sharpe of 4, as a mock project.
- Traded Eurostoxx options in a simulated environment for 6 weeks.
- Worked on a team project to develop an auto trading and quoting strategies across various stocks in a mock environment to trade against bots and other teams and had the highest total profit.
Quant Trading Intern
Optiver
05.2022 - 06.2022
Mock Traded Eurostoxx options and worked on a project allowing traders to find a fair historical volatility surface across all stocks and analyzing the same to improve pricing.
Co-ordinator
eSports Club, IIT Madras
07.2020 - 04.2021
- Managed year-round activities of the club, hosted inter hostel tournaments, cultural fest, managing 1000s of participants from all over India, making hardware arrangements and efficient scheduling of the same.
Education
B.Tech in CSE -
Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Chennai, India07.2023
XII (Maharashtra Board) -
Suryadatta Junior College
Pune, India01.2019
X (Maharashtra Board) -
New India School
Pune, India01.2017
Skills
- C
- Java
- Python
- LateX
- Licensed Trader (FINRA and exchanges across EU)
- Decision Making
- Problem Solving
Scholastic And Relevant Achievements
- Competitive Programming :- Codeforces rated 2171 (max 2191) . Top 125 among all users in India.
- ICPC India Regionals rank 6 in Amritapuri Region, rank 4 in Pune Gwalior regionals in 2022.
- Google Competitions :- Best rank of 263 in KickStart, Rank 2860 in CodeJam Round 2 2021, Rank 2394 in HashCode 2021.
- JEE Advanced AIR 117 (Out of 0.15 million candidates) and JEE Mains AIR 158 (Out of 1.2 million candidates).
- Awarded prestigious KVPY Scholarship by the government of India in 2019.
- Top 1% among all Indian students in INChO and INAO in Indian Science Olympiads (2019).
Relevant Courses And Labs
- Data Structures and Algorithms
- Design and Analysis of Algorithms
- Discrete Maths, Probability
- Compiler Design
- Paradigms of Programming
- Graph Theory, Game Theory
- Computer Architecture
- Object Oriented Programming Lab
- Operating Systems
- Database Management
- Computer Networks
- Randomized Algorithms
- Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
- Topics in Cryptography
- GPU programming
- Econometrics
- Randomized Algorithmsn
Extra Curriculars
- Mentored numerous JEE aspirants over a span of 2 years.
- State level chess player with former FIDE ELO of 1729.
- Amateur professional Gamer and certified swimmer.
Projects
- Sudoku Solver - Designed a Sudoku solver (Java) from scratch to solve a given Sudoku for any input using DPLL and SAT based solving algorithms, backtracking.,
- 16 bit Hack ALU - Built a modern computer consisting of CPU, Hack ALU for 16 bit numbers and floating point numbers using assembly language, capable of performing arithmetic and logical operations.
- MiniJava Compiler Built a compiler capable of parsing type checking MiniJava code using Java, Flex, Bison.
Timeline
Quant Trader
Optiver
08.2023 - Current
Quant Trading Intern
Optiver
05.2022 - 06.2022
Co-ordinator
eSports Club, IIT Madras
07.2020 - 04.2021
B.Tech in CSE -
Indian Institute of Technology Madras
XII (Maharashtra Board) -
Suryadatta Junior College
X (Maharashtra Board) -
New India School
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