Hi, I'm Arya! I'm a rising senior in the M&T Program at UPenn studying CS & Finance, and concurrently pursuing a masters in Robotics.

experience

1. ANDURIL INDUSTRIES
   Software Engineer Intern · Costa Mesa, CA

   Working on Mission Autonomy in the Air Dominance & Strike division.

2. HACK4IMPACT
   Co-director

   Software Developer

   Built full-stack MERN applications for nonprofits including Achieve Now, West Park Cultural, and Human Rights Defense.

   Projects Chair

   Project Manager / Team Lead
3. THE STEVENS CENTER FOR INNOVATION IN FINANCE
   Student Research Fellow · Philadelphia, PA

   Using AI to predict loan default risk in emerging markets.

4. VANECK ASSOCIATES
   Quantitative Developer Intern · New York City, NY

   Automated portfolio monitoring for mutual funds, built yield curves via the Nelson-Siegel-Svensson model, and computed ETF creation costs and post-redemption weights for market makers.

5. INVESTMINT INC.
   Full Stack Developer / Quantitative Analyst · Remote

   Rebuilt the AWS data pipeline and developed a statistical ETF analysis engine, integrating preferred stock and U.S. ETFs into the backend codebase while managing a cross-functional team of designers and developers.

6. EMERGENTE ENERGÍA SOSTENIBLE
   Software Engineer Intern · Medellín, Colombia

   Selected for the Global Research & Internship Program (GRIP) at UPenn. Developed an end-to-end interactive map for the company website and designed backend infrastructure for managing ecological data.

7. NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH
   Research Fellow · Bethesda, MD

   Developed a Python pipeline to extract 40 radiomic features (texture, variance, GLCM) from PET/CT voxel neighborhoods, engineered a dimensionality reduction framework using UMAP and t-SNE, and authored standard operating procedures.