# Rohit Tanikella

> Machine Learning Software Engineer at Glean

Location: Cupertino, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/rohittanikella

## Work Experience
### Machine Learning Software Engineer @ Glean
Jan 2024 – Present | Palo Alto, CA
Search Quality

### Quantitative Trader @ IMC Trading
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Chicago, Illinois, United States
•Designed models in Python to develop automated strategies for options market
making in commodity products
•Monitored model decay and performance of algorithms, continuously refining strategies to adapt to
changing market conditions and maximize profitability

### Quantitative Trader Intern @ DRW
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022
•Executed trading strategies on a systematic commodity futures desk specializing in spread trading based on seasonal patterns and market dynamics

### Data Analytics Intern @ National Basketball Association
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021
•Analyzed optimal scheduling of games in NBA to minimize injury and fatigue while maximizing competitiveness, fairness, and revenue

### Software Engineer Intern @ Qualtrics
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Seattle, Washington, United States
• Developed load testing framework to handle unexpected bursts of requests on the Qualtrics database using Gatling, Scala, and Docker
• Generated models for future database growth and hardware cost based on database statistics

### CS61A Academic Intern @ UC Berkeley Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences (EECS)
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Berkeley, California, United States
• Assisting groups of 9 – 10 students of CS61A, Berkeley’s largest introductory Python programming course
• Explaining introductory Python concepts, answering student questions, and providing advice for success in 61A

### CSM Junior Mentor @ Computer Science Mentors
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Berkeley, California, United States
• Teaching groups of 3 - 5 students concepts from CS70, Berkeley’s intro discrete math and probability class
• Providing more individual support to reinforce concepts taught in lecture and discussion sections

### Software Engineer Intern @ Prudential Financial
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020
• Developing SQL queries and using Java to control read/write access of client data from Prudential employees
• Analyzing and creating data visualizations/graphs of life insurance policy performance with Python


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in EECS (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science)
University of California, Berkeley

### Concurrent Enrollment in Computer Science
Foothill College


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/rohit-tanikella

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Last updated: 2026-04-11