# Mrinal Bhagavan

> Quantitative SWE @ The Voleon Group | EECS @ Berkeley '24 | Ex-Google, Amazon

Location: Berkeley, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/mrinal

Love designing and building large data pipelines to support ML processes.

Currently involved in Data Eng for quant trading @ Voleon. Neurotech enthusiast and hobbyist Roblox dev with 1.5M+ player visits.

Reach out to chat about absolutely anything :-).

## Work Experience
### Quantitative Software Engineer @ The Voleon Group
Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### Software Engineer Intern @ The Voleon Group
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023
Returned to the team to build more cool trading infrastructure.

### Software Engineer Intern @ The Voleon Group
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023
Voleon is a ML-based quant trading firm. I worked on the Data Engineering Team handling the procurement and flow of data within Voleon.

### Software Engineer @ Amazon
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022
Tackled lots of unique ML problems within fashion design

### Academic Intern @ UC Berkeley Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences (EECS)
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022
• Worked as an Academic Intern for CS 61A, UC Berkeley’s introductory CS course with over 2000 students enrolled.
• Assisted Head TAs in lab sections to supplement core content through topical mini-lectures and assistance on object-oriented, SQL, Scheme, and declarative programming in Python

### Consulting - Software Developer @ Neurotech@Berkeley
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022

### Software Developer @ Neurotech@Berkeley
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021

### Founder @ BrainID
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022
* Created a novel ML authentication method that can verify users based on their 'thoughts' (EEG data).
* Received $100k funding offer @ ~$1.5M valuation
* Patent pending for "A Universal Method of Nervous System-Based Authentication"

### SWE Intern - Open Hardware Initiative @ Red Hat
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021
• Focused on developing an Open Hardware Edge Testbed for rapid prototyping and development in FPGAs by replacing HDL reprogramming with a modifiable C interface.
• Optimized an image classifier in C within a hardware-constrained environment by iterating over multiple classifier types to maintain performance and yield constant results
• Tested and created a pipeline for implementing similar applications in the testbed for quicker reimplementation

### Contract Developer @ Neurable
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021

### Google CSSI x Coursera @ Google
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020
• Invited to participate in the Computer Science Summer Institute x Coursera program 
• Completed “Algorithmic Toolbox” curriculum that taught industry-standard algorithms & runtime analysis
• Applied Greedy, Divide & Conquer, and DP algorithms in numerous scenarios to reach an optimal solution
• Worked in a cohort to build a Bootstrap web application hosted on Google Compute Engine servers
• Delivered a collaborative project demo to Google employees & community leaders

### Research Intern @ Fermilab
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Batavia, Illinois, United States
• Developed firmware using Hardware Description Languages for Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs)
• Processed data using C, C++, & Python with CERN’s ROOT toolkit
• Collaborated with a team of PhDs and undergraduate students from international universities and held regular conferences with mentors for reviewing method and findings
• Co-authored the report on our findings “Implementation of TDCs in FPGAs” pending for 2021 publishing from Fermilab

### Freelance Coding Camp @ Illinois Institute of Technology
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Chicago, Illinois, United States
• Introduced to Github developer workflow 
• Introduced to frontend web development through HTML, CSS, and JS
• Worked in teams to build apps and games using Unity Engine through C#
• Demoed to mentors as a final product for the summer


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
University of California, Berkeley

### High School Diploma in Computer Science
Hinsdale Central High School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/mrinal-bhagavan-ab60801a2

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Last updated: 2026-04-05