Hi, I'm Tarandeep
Computer Engineering MS student at ASU. Building algorithmic trading systems and outreach SaaS. Interested in quant finance, ML systems, and making things that work in production.
Tarandeep Singh Plaha

About

I'm a graduate student at Arizona State University (MS Computer Engineering, expected Spring 2027) building at the intersection of quantitative finance and software engineering. I've shipped two production systems: ALFRED, an algorithmic trading platform with a 4-signal hybrid engine and live backtesting, and PitchFlows, a cold outreach SaaS with 20+ active users and 1,000+ emails sent. Previously interned as a data scientist in India. I write about what I build, what I learn, and how I think about markets.

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Work Experience

Education

Arizona State University
Arizona State University
MS Computer Engineering (Computer Systems)
Aug 2025May 2027
St. Vincent Pallotti College of Engineering
St. Vincent Pallotti College of Engineering
BTech Computer Science & Engineering (Data Science)
Dec 2021Jun 2025

Skills

Python
React
Next.js
TypeScript
PostgreSQL
Docker
My Projects

Check out my latest work

I've worked on a variety of projects, from simple websites to complex web applications. Here are a few of my favorites.

ALFRED — Algorithmic Trading System

Full-stack algorithmic trading platform with a 4-signal hybrid engine (technical, fundamental, sentiment, ML). LightGBM alpha model trained on 39 engineered features with TimeSeriesSplit to prevent lookahead bias. Production risk layer: Half-Kelly sizing, 95% VaR guard, ATR-scaled stops, drawdown circuit breaker. Vectorized backtesting computes 15 metrics including Sharpe, Sortino, Calmar, CAGR, and alpha vs SPY.

Python
FastAPI
React
LightGBM
Alpaca API
WebSocket

PitchFlows — Cold Outreach SaaS

Production SaaS for personalized cold email outreach. Orchestrates up to 17 cascaded LLM API calls per email (GPT-4o research → Claude strategy → Claude drafting) with early-exit at ≥35% estimated reply probability. Segments recipients into 8 audience buckets, selects from 5 adaptive draft strategies, scores outputs across 6 weighted signals. 20+ active users, 1,000+ emails sent.

React
FastAPI
PostgreSQL
Neon
Gmail API
GPT-4o

ASU Faculty Research Dashboard

Indexed 500+ faculty profiles and 10,000+ publications with sub-millisecond query latency via optimized full-text search. Integrated GPT-4o-mini to auto-generate personalized outreach emails from research-alignment scoring.

Python
Flask
PostgreSQL
GPT-4o-mini

Contact

Open to internship opportunities, quant/fintech roles, and interesting conversations about markets and systems.