Akshay Mittal

Indian software engineer and former IMO 2009 contestant (Honourable Mention) for India. BTech in Electrical Engineering from IIT Delhi; a decade-plus in quantitative-finance and data-engineering software at WorldQuant, River Quant Research and Graviton Research Capital.

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• Career is almost entirely quantitative-finance engineering: Researcher/Software Engineer/Senior/Lead Engineer (Data Engineering) at WorldQuant 2013-2020, then Workchat/Shardings, River Quant Research (SDE III 2022-2025), now Senior Software Engineer at Graviton Research Capital LLP (2025-). A decade-plus of quant infra suggests the olympiad-trained quantitative mind moved into trading systems.Jan 2025
• Selected for India's six-member IMO 2009 team (Bremen, Germany, July 10-21 2009) after a month-long HBCSE/TIFR training camp (Apr 29-May 27 2009); listed as from New Delhi.Jun 2009
• BTech Electrical Engineering, IIT Delhi (2009-2013) - timed with his IMO year, suggesting the olympiad directly fed an IIT engineering track rather than pure maths.Jan 2013
• Scored 11/42 at IMO 2009 (P1=7,P2=1,P3=1,P4=2,P5=0,P6=0), Honourable Mention, rank 314 (44.6%). India placed 28th with 130 pts.Jul 2009
• IMO 2009 teammates Sameer Wagh and Ananth Shankar went on to Princeton PhDs / academia, while Akshay Mittal took the industry quant route - a divergent post-olympiad path worth noting.Jul 2009