Akshay Mittal

Akshay Mittal is a software engineer based in Delhi, India, currently Senior Software Engineer at Graviton Research Capital LLP (from March 2025). His career has been concentrated in data engineering and software engineering at quantitative finance firms: Researcher and engineer (WebSim, Data Engineering, Lead Engineer) at WorldQuant (2013-2020), Software Development Engineer III at River Quant Research (2022-2025), and a Technical Lead stint at Shardings (2020-2021). He represented India at the 2009 International Mathematical Olympiad, earning an Honourable Mention, and holds a B.Tech in Electrical Engineering from IIT Delhi (2009-2013).

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• Quant employment verification: CONFIRMED. Identity (Akshay Mittal, India IMO 2009, IIT Delhi EE 2009-2013) is supported; employer classification: Graviton Research Capital LLP (LinkedIn current role from Mar 2025) is a quantitative/HFT trading firm per its own site ('Graviton is a high frequency trading firm', 'a quantitative investment firm established in 2014'); River Quant Research (SDE III, 2022-2025) is described as a quantitative research firm with low-to-mid frequency trading expertise; WorldQuant (2013-2020, five roles) is a quantitative asset manager known for systematic strategies. These GRE. The employment evidence is a LinkedIn-derived index (tracker lead taiga-255940444) plus employer primary pages; it is NOT independently primary-source confirmed that Akshay Mittal held each specific title/date. His roles at these firms are software/data engineering roles, not trading or alpha-research roles. Note: no independent offer letter, payroll, or press source was found.Sep 17, 2026
• Current role per LinkedIn index: Senior Software Engineer at Graviton Research Capital LLP, Delhi, from March 2025. Graviton is a Gurugram-based high-frequency trading and quantitative investment firm (gravitontrading.com, founded 2014), so this is a real quant-finance employer, though the title is an engineering role rather than a trading/research role.Mar 2025
• WorldQuant tenure spanned roughly eight years across five indexed roles: Researcher (Jul 2013-Jan 2014), Software Engineer WebSim (Jan-Jul 2014), Software Engineer Data Engineering (Jul 2014-Dec 2015), Senior Software Engineer Data Engineering (Jan 2016-Dec 2018), and Lead Engineer Data Engineering (Jan 2019-Mar 2020). The progression is within the data-engineering/WebSim platform track rather than an alpha-research track, indicating an infrastructure-engineering career inside a quant firm rather than a strategy-research one.Jul 2013
• Identity anchor: LinkedIn profile akshay-mittal-b3840a44 is titled 'Technical Lead' and lists Graviton Research Capital LLP, IIT Delhi, and Delhi location. The same name is heavily shared across LinkedIn (dozens of Akshay Mittals) and on GitHub, so this profile must be disambiguated by the Graviton/IIT-Delhi/River-Quant combination rather than by name alone.
• River Quant Research was a real quantitative research employer (LinkedIn company page: 'privately held Quantitative Research firm'): the role Software Development Engineer III (Nov 2022 - Feb 2025) sits between Shardings and Graviton and is consistent with a quant-firm engineering track, though it is an engineering title, not a quant research/trading title.Nov 2022
• Competition (not employment): Akshay Mittal, New Delhi, represented India at the 50th International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO 2009, Bremen, Germany), earning an Honourable Mention with 44.6% (314 points). This is a mathematics competition result and is not a job, internship, or professional role.Jul 2009
• Graviton Research Capital describes itself as a privately funded quantitative trading firm 'established in 2014' with teams of researchers, portfolio managers and technologists, operating across all asset classes via in-house low-latency execution; employer classification as quantitative finance is confirmed by primary source.Sep 17, 2026
• Non-quant interlude: Technical Lead at Shardings (2020-2021, Remote), building a streaming and broadcasting platform in Go on Google Cloud Platform / Kubernetes. Shardings is not a quantitative finance firm, so this role should not be counted toward quant-finance employment.2020
• Education: B.Tech in Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, 2009-2013 (entry to IIT Delhi immediately follows the 2009 IMO, consistent with the same person). IIT Delhi + Electrical Engineering is corroborated across the LinkedIn-derived profile and the IMO/olympiad records naming 'Akshay Mittal, New Delhi'.
• Namesake caution: an unrelated Akshay Mittal (Angel Investor, Mumbai; Investcorp VP; Symbiosis MBA) and another (PhD, PayPal DevSecOps, Austin) surface prominently for the same queries. Nearest-collision error is to attach one of these profiles' facts to the IIT-Delhi/WorldQuant/Graviton person; all facts here are filtered to the IIT-Delhi/Graviton identity.
• Contact lead (index-only, unverified): a contact-aggregator listing surfaces a work email pattern masked as a******@gravitontrading.com and a partial Indian mobile (+91 98732 8....) attributed to an Akshay Mittal whose stated experience matches 'River Quant Research, Shardings and WorldQuant'. The email domain matches his current employer's corporate domain, but no primary source publishes this contact, so it is retained as an unverified lead only.
• No public GitHub or personal website attributable to this specific person was found; GitHub results for the name (akshaymittal143, Ak-shay, aks0) belong to namesakes (e.g. ak-shayy, akshaymittal143 is a PayPal DevSecOps engineer in Austin, Texas, and several Akshay Mittals in academia). Identity confirmation remains anchored to the Graviton/IIT-Delhi/River-Quant LinkedIn combination.Sep 17, 2026