Kushagra Juneja

Working as a Senior Quantitative Trader in Limestone team of Tower Research Capital; developing and managing fully automated HF, MF trading strategies across markets. Limestone is one of the largest trading teams at Tower. Skilled in building automated trading systems, machine learning, software development and quantitative finance. Graduated from IIT Bombay with a Bachelor of Technology degree in Computer Science and Engineering with Institute Rank 1 amongst all students in my batch. Having a background in competitive programming and math (ICPC World Finalist, IOI Bronze Medallist, INMO awardee), I love solving challenging technical problems. I am interested in Quantitative Trading, Machine Learning and Software Development.

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• Quant employment verification: CONFIRMED. Tower Research Capital is a quantitative trading firm (proprietary high-frequency and systematic trading), and the profile lists an actual, non-student role there: Senior Quantitative Trader on the Limestone team, current, developing and managing fully automated HF/MF trading strategies across markets, based in New York. The role is reported by the LinkedIn enrichment index (source: the LinkedIn profile record), not corroborated by Tower's own website. Identity is consistent across a public Codeforces/CP Hall-of-Fame profile, IOI records, and press. The reported start 2021-07 is index-sourced; the reported end 2026-04 is not corroborated by any source read here and is treated as unverified. Earlier industry experience: Software Engineer Intern at Palantir Technologies (a data/software company, not a quant fund). No other quant-finance employer was found. Employer classification: Tower Research Capital = confirmed quantitative trading firm; Palantir = software/data analytics, not quantitative finance.Jul 2021
• Senior Quantitative Trader on the Limestone team at Tower Research Capital, New York; develops and manages fully automated high-frequency and mid-frequency trading strategies across markets; described on the profile as one of the largest trading teams at Tower. Reported-by-index current role.Jul 2021
• Won a bronze medal for India at the 27th International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI 2015) in Almaty, Kazakhstan, at age ~16 as a Delhi school student (FIITJEE Punjabi Bagh Centre); rank 131 with 242.55/600 points. The disambiguating public identity anchor.Aug 2, 2015
• Co-authored 'Packing Squares into a Disk with Optimal Worst-Case Density' (with S. Fekete, V. Gurunathan, P. Keldenich, L. Kleist, C. Scheffer), SoCG 2021; a computational-geometry results paper from his IIT Bombay years, not a quant-finance project.Mar 12, 2021
• Graduated IIT Bombay with a B.Tech in Computer Science (2017-2021); the 4-year window places the 2015 IOI medal at pre-university age, consistent with the Delhi school-student coverage.2021
• A namesake cluster of other 'Kushagra Juneja' LinkedIn profiles exists (Director at D2O Inc.; Lead Infrastructure Engineer at Quadeye; AGM at WebMobril). These are different people and were excluded; the IOI + IIT Bombay + Tower Research combination identifies the subject.
• Competed at the ICPC World Finals 2019 with rank 85, per the CP Hall of Fame timeline. A second international programming final alongside IOI.2019
• Press coverage of IOI 2015 in The Hindu ('Delhi student wins Olympiad title', 2015-08-30) and The Economic Times ('Math wizard Kushagra Juneja...', 2015-09-25) documents the award and his coaching centre; both predate his university and career records.Aug 30, 2015
• Reported past role: Software Engineer Intern at Palantir Technologies. Palantir is a data/software analytics company, not a quantitative investment or trading firm, so this internship does not count as quant-finance employment.
• Codeforces handle is 'superman_k', the identifier tying the competitive-programming identity to the name Kushagra Juneja on CP Hall of Fame and Codechef/Codeforces records.
• The portfolio site kushagrajuneja.dev belongs to a different, younger 'Kushagra Juneja' (a self-described full-stack React/Next.js student), not this quantitative trader; it was checked and excluded from the profile.