Hi, I'm Kishan Ved
B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Gandhinagar
At InterIIT Tech Meet,
IIT Bombay,
December, 2024
HFT Quantitative Developer @Qube Research & Technologies (QRT), London.
Ex - Software Engineering Intern @Tower Research Capital.
Ex - Software Engineering Intern @Microsoft.
Google Summer of Code 2024 @NumFOCUS.
About Me:
- I am currently a Quantitative Developer at QRT, in the London Headquarter Office. I work in high frequency trading.
- I am one of the very few overseas interns (and until now, the only one from India) sponsored by QRT to work in the London office.
- I have interned at Microsoft India R&D and Tower Research Capital, an HFT Firm.
- I’m an Open Source Contributor and I have contributed to NumFOCUS (PyDataStructs) for Google Summer of Code 2024. Check out my GSoC’24 Blogs.
- I have also contributed to other large scale open source projects, like LFortran, a Fortran compiler and LPython, a Python compiler.
- I’m keen to build impactful projects that benefit the society.
- I have a deep inclination for machine learning.
Selected publications
News
| Mar 16, 2026 | I join the QRT London office! |
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| Jan 9, 2026 | I am selected as a Quantitative Developer intern in a HFT trading team at Qube Research and Technologies (QRT) in London! |
| Jan 3, 2026 | In Nov-Dec 2025, I successfully crack multiple interviews, in trading firms like: Kivi Capital (Quant Research), QiCap (Software), Quadeye (Software). |
| Jul 7, 2025 | I am joining Tower Research Capital, a high frequency trading firm, as a Software Engineering Intern. |
| May 27, 2025 | I have completed my internship at Microsoft. I’m super happy to make impact and leave my mark at Microsoft! My AI agents’ framework helps save 1000+ manhours daily! |
| May 5, 2025 | I have joined Microsoft as a Software Engineering Intern in the Azure Networking team. My project involves implementing GitHub Copilot (Agentic AI) to automatically solve errors. |
| Mar 20, 2025 | I am now a LeetCode Knight with a rating of 1854. I’m among the top 5.77% people worldwide! |
| Dec 15, 2024 | My team, IIT Gandhinagar, wins one silver 🥈 and one bronze 🥉 medal at the InterIIT Tech Meet 13.0! |
| Dec 1, 2024 | My research paper FITGNN receives its first citation! I now have H-index = 1. |
| Oct 15, 2024 | I serve as the deputy contingent leader for IIT Gandhinagar’s team in the InterIIT Tech meet 13.0 at IIT Bombay! |
| Oct 1, 2024 | I am participating in Hacktoberfest as an Open Source Maintainer! |
| Sep 20, 2024 | I recieved the off campus summer internship offer from Microsoft! Entering Big Tech :) |
| Sep 2, 2024 | I recieved my Google Summer of Code completion certificate! |
| Aug 5, 2024 | I’m selected for the Summer Internship at DevRev on Day 0 of IITGN’s internship cycle! |
| Jul 12, 2024 | I have successfully passed my midterm evaluation for Google Summer of Code 2024! |
| May 1, 2024 | I get selected for Google Summer of Code 2024! |
| Feb 9, 2023 | I’m selected as a Reliance Foundation Undergraduate Scholar! |
Google Summer of Code 2024 Blogs
| Feb 18, 2025 | Neural Processes in PyTorch |
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| Aug 10, 2024 | My Google Summer of Code Journey |