class AaravRaina:
def __init__(self):
self.role = "ML Lead @ Cortex Ventures | SWE Co-op @ Verisk"
self.education = "CS + Finance @ Northeastern"
self.current_focus = ["ML Systems", "Quantitative Finance", "Distributed Systems"]
self.learning = ["Low-Latency Systems", "Stochastic Modeling", "Real Analysis"]
def current_projects(self):
return [
"π€ Building Jarvis - AI Personal Assistant",
"π ML-Powered Stock Market Analysis",
"πΉ Quantitative Trading Strategies",
"ποΈ Distributed Systems Architecture",
"β‘ Lock-Free Order Book Matching Engine",
"π Memory-Safe Network Proxy in Rust"
]-
Software Engineer Co-op @ Verisk Extreme Event Solutions (Jan 2026 - Present)
- Building distributed catastrophe risk analytics with Monte Carlo simulations at scale
- Engineering AWS Step Functions orchestration with fan-out parallelism and gRPC integration
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Machine Learning Lead @ Cortex Ventures (Jan 2025 - Present)
- Architecting ML-powered document intelligence platform, leading team of 8
- Building unsupervised clustering, vector embedding, and graph algorithm pipelines
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Software Engineer @ Forge (Aug 2025 - Dec 2025)
- Architected Python/MongoDB backend for community skill-sharing platform
- Implemented JWT authentication, two-layer caching, and 50+ API endpoints
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Data Tech Lead @ Generate Product Development Studio (Aug 2025 - Present)
- Leading data analytics infrastructure for 150+ member organization
- Architecting Python pipelines tracking engagement metrics with PostgreSQL/Redis
- Developing alumni tracking system connecting members with 10,000+ alumni
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Full Stack Software Engineer @ Teens 4 Teens (Nov 2025 - Present)
- Volunteering my efforts to help my community
- Backend, Devops
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Data Analysis Research Assistant @ International Hellenic University (May 2024 - Jul 2024)
- Processed 1M+ healthcare records using Python and NumPy
- Optimized PostgreSQL database through indexing and query restructuring
- Built automation tools saving 20+ hours weekly


