Rajat Nepal
Email: nepal@wustl.edu | LinkedIn: RajatNepal | GitHub: RajatNepal
EDUCATION
Washington University in St. Louis
Bachelor of Science in Business and Computer Science (BUCS), Focus in Business Analytics
• GPA: 4.00/4.00 | Selected as one of 20 students out of 2,000+ applicants for the new joint degree program.
St. Louis, MO
December 2023
EXPERIENCE
Capital One
Chicago, IL
Full Stack Software Engineer Intern
June 2023 – August 2023
• Designed and developed a full stack application using Vue.js, Node.js, DynamoDB, custom API calls, and AWS Lambda
architecture in an agile team of 4 interns.
• Implemented patented technology to customize configurations in Amazon’s Simple Queue Service, resulting in a 19.7% decrease
in operations wait times and 26.4% increase in efficiency for customer-agent matching.
• Enhanced the customer service experience by accurately matching 750,000+ daily customers’ problems with the 800+ specialized
skills of Capital One’s 35,000+ call center agents.
Federal Reserve
Remote
Software Development and Product Management Intern
June 2022 – December 2022
• Programmed updates to three of the Fed’s customer facing FinTech apps in C#, .NET, and SQL.
• Collaborated with an agile team of 6 software developers and 2 product managers in the Application Development and
Technology Office of the Fed’s Banking Supervision Group.
• Managed a cross-functional team of interns and stakeholders for the Fed’s Business Interdisciplinary Event (BIE), which resulted
in the implementation of new products in the economic education industry.
Nidec Motor Corporation
St. Louis, MO
Software Engineer Co-op
June 2021 – June 2022
• Developed Arduino and desktop applications in Java, C++, and C#, improving motor testing efficiency by 37.6% for the $500+
million HVAC/R business unit.
• Optimized databases, migrating local data to the cloud enabling simultaneous access for multiple engineers, facilitated
collaborative work and increased data accessibility.
• Revamped proprietary software to cut customer programming errors, adapt to new hardware developed by Nidec, and update user
interfaces to improve human-computer interaction.
PROJECTS
Derivative Securities Portfolio Optimization
May 2023
• Designed a portfolio of fixed income instruments immune to Delta and Gamma risks in MATLAB.
• Optimized the portfolio with an iterative algorithm by reimmunizing its composition using duration and convexity calculations.
• Mitigated macroeconomic risks by calculating interest rate term structures, extracting yield curves using the Nelson-Siegel model,
and adding hypothetical recessions to the simulation.
Artificial Intelligence Models Marketplace
March 2023
• Created a full stack Marketplace selling Artificial Intelligence models using Java, JavaScript, SQL, Spring Boot, and Maven.
• Customers can create an account, log in/out, view available AI models, add them to their shopping cart, checkout from shopping
cart, and view their order history.
• Admin User can add/update/delete/hide AI models, view orders, change order status.
Pacman AI
December 2022
• Engineered an Artificial Intelligence to play Pacman in Python. Based off UC Berkeley’s AI course.
• Used probabilistic inference in a hidden Markov model to track the movements of ghosts.
• Implemented standard machine learning classification algorithms using Naive Bayes and Reinforcement Learning.
Movie Recommendation Website
May 2022
• Developed a full stack movie recommending website using Python and Django framework.
• Utilized a cosine similarity algorithm to match each user with their “movie soulmate” by calculating which other user has the
most similar movie interests. Users get recommended a movie based on their movie soulmate.
• Users can like, dislike, and comment on each movie. Admin user can add movies, edit movies, and delete offensive comments.
SKILLS & INTERESTS
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Technical: Python, Java, JavaScript, C++, C#, MATLAB, Node.js, Vue.js, Pandas, SQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB, Git, Azure,
AWS, Postman, Maven, Spring Boot, Django, Kubernetes, Docker
Other Activities: WashU Curling Club (Founder, President, and Varsity Captain), Washington University International
Relations Council (Executive Board), Intro to Computer Science Teaching Assistant, WashU BUCS Mentor, Orientation Leader
Interests: FinTech, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Computing, Quantum Computing