Vikram Waradpande

Experience

1. Intuit — Mountain View, CA

   Feb 2024 – Present

   Senior Software Engineer

   • •Led a 3-engineer team to ship a real-time AI agent in QuickBooks that detects recurring transactions and automates manual workflows — 70%+ suggestion acceptance rate, reaching 4M+ customers.
   • •Drove QuickBooks' Java/REST → Kotlin/GraphQL migration with AI agents that auto-detect and fix gaps across 200+ features.

2. Aleth, Inc. — Berkeley, CA

   Jun – Aug 2023

   Machine Learning Intern

   • •Built Aleth's full-stack platform (Python, React, GraphQL, AWS) as sole engineer; ML matching system; 100+ customers within weeks of launch.

3. Goldman Sachs — Bangalore, India

   Aug 2020 – Aug 2022

   Software Engineer II (Associate)

   • •Built a real-time rule-based classification and routing system for trade requests (15+ req/sec) and a pricing engine for 10K ETFs/sec, enabling ~$3B/year of additional trading flow.

4. L3S Research Center, Leibniz University — Hannover, Germany

   Jul 2019 – Jul 2020

   Research Engineer

   • •Published a deep RL algorithm for discrete state-spaces using graph embeddings; 2.7× faster than baseline RL methods.

5. Microsoft — Hyderabad, India

   May – Jul 2018

   Software Engineer Intern

   • •Built an LSTM-based classifier powering Bing's “overview” search results section; +4% classification accuracy over the existing model.

Talks & Publications

• Fundamentals of differential privacy in Python — PyCon US 2024
• Parallel programming using MPI in Python — PyCon Italia 2023
• Graph-based State Representations for Deep Reinforcement Learning — MLG-KDD 2020

Projects

• SumItUp — GPT-powered tool for extracting insights from interview notes (built during Aleth internship).
• PolInc — Haskell simulation modeling how social-network influencers spread political preferences.

Misc

More soon.