Anand Degwekar

Quantitative Strategist at Virtu Financial (New York). IIT Kharagpur integrated B.Tech-M.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering, 2010-2015. IMO 2010 Honorable Mention representing India; INOI 2010 (Indian National Olympiad in Informatics) qualifier. Prior experience at Google (software engineer) and a research internship at Microsoft Research. Self-described generalist engineer experienced in search, distributed systems, data analysis and machine learning.

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• Quant employment verification: CONFIRMED. Index/LinkedIn-derived lead: 'Quantitative Strategist, Virtu Financial' (New York). Virtu Financial is an electronic market-making firm (revenue from bid-ask spread and order flow), so the role is a genuine quantitative-finance/trading position, not a company merely named 'Quant'. Identity is corroborated because the same LinkedIn profile ties the name to IMO 2010 (India) and to IIT Kharagpur CompSci, which match the olympiad and education records. Caveat: no start date is published and no independent primary source (Virtu, a press release, or a bylined page) states the role; the claim rests on LinkedIn-summary/index sources plus the identity match.Sep 17, 2026
• Identity is separate from his twin brother Akshay Degwekar, a cryptography researcher (MIT CSAIL PhD under Vinod Vaikuntanathan) who is a Vice President at Two Sigma — the Two Sigma and MIT-cryptography trail belongs to Akshay, not Anand, and must not be merged into this profile.
• Represented India at the International Mathematical Olympiad 2010 in Kazakhstan, earning an Honorable Mention (14 points); contestant #19712 and part of the three-student Pune group that also included his twin Akshay Degwekar and Gaurav Patil, all from Jog Junior College, Pune.Jul 2010
• Education: integrated B.Tech-M.Tech (dual degree) in Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Kharagpur, 2010-2015 (MTech, Computer Science). He was still a '4th year B.Tech (dual degree)' student in 2013, consistent with the 5-year 2010-2015 span.2013
• Worked as a Software Engineer at Google before moving into quantitative finance — Google is not a quant/trading employer, so this is a technology-sector role, not a quantitative-finance one. The Google role appears in LinkedIn/index sources and in a IIT-KGP placement summary listing Anand Degwekar under a Google placement.
• Research internship at Microsoft Research: a list of past Microsoft Research India interns/research fellows compiled by Vipul Goyal names 'Anand Degwekar (IIT Kharagpur => Google)' — Microsoft Research is a research lab, not a quantitative-finance employer.
• Qualified for the Indian National Olympiad in Informatics (INOI) 2010 from Pune via Jog Junior College, building on the same olympiad pipeline as his IMO selection.2010
• An IIT-KGP course-page tutor listing gives a public contact email, [contact omitted], alongside a phone number — a personal contact published by the course instructor, not a verified current address.
• Served as an instructor at the Pre-RMO 2013 workshop run by the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Kharagpur — a student-run outreach role, not employment.2013
• No public GitHub account or personal website could be confirmed for this Anand Degwekar; the profile's self-described focus (search, distributed systems, data analysis, machine learning) is captured only from LinkedIn, so code-level project evidence is not publicly available.