Hi, my name is
Alex Thuruthel.
I build things for the web.
I'm a Computer Science Engineering student at IIIT Hyderabad, specializing in AI, distributed systems, and full-stack development. Currently exploring agentic AI, federated learning, and quantitative finance.
Check out my work01. Experience
Qonfido
May 2025 – Sep 2025
Founder's Office Intern - Data Engineering & Quantitative Systems
- Architected a high-velocity ETL pipeline to ingest real-time NSE market data, to drive downstream investment analytics.
- Developed automated analytics engines to calculate quantitative metrics, generating financial insights that directly informed user portfolio recommendations and investment strategies.
- Optimized data retrieval algorithms within a RAG pipeline, reducing query latency for retrieving complex financial context and ensuring rapid delivery of personalized reports.
Data Science and Analytics Centre, IIITH
May 2024 – May 2025
Undergraduate Researcher - Data Visualization, Machine Learning
- Designed an experimental framework using KD-tree and K-NN segmentation to analyze model performance variation, identifying bias in specific data clusters.
- Conducted empirical evaluations on benchmark datasets, utilizing Seaborn dashboards to visualize error distributions and guide feature engineering efforts.
- Automated data-segmentation workflows to generate performance heatmaps, enabling data-driven refinement of ML architectures.
Times Of Loans
Jan 2024 – Apr 2024
Software Intern - Flutter Development
- Built a cross-platform Flutter app integrating Firebase Auth, Firestore & RazorPay API for secure, automated payments.
02. Projects
User Adherence to AI Financial Advisors
Modeled advisor-user interaction as a cooperative Stackelberg game, incorporating bounded rationality and Prospect Theory. Applied MILP optimization to generate portfolio strategies that maximize both utility and user trust.
Aug 2025 – Present
Custom Federated Learning Framework
Designed a distributed training system using Ray.io for privacy-preserving model updates across decentralized client nodes. Implemented LoRA adapters to optimize fine-tuning efficiency.
Sep 2025 – Ongoing
Legends of Stonks: Financial Platform
Architected a scalable REST API using FastAPI to serve real-time market data. Designed complex PostgreSQL schemas and containerized the application using Docker.
Mar 2025
Custom Unix Shell
Implemented a custom command-line interpreter in C, handling low-level process orchestration using fork, exec, and wait system calls. Engineered support for I/O redirection and piping.
Feb 2025
Automated Refactoring Pipeline
Developed a developer-productivity tool using Python and Gemini/DeepSeek to automate code review and refactoring. Integrated with Git workflows to auto-generate Pull Requests.
Feb 2025
TAFEA: AI Teaching Assistant
Developed a responsive web application using React to assist TFI fellows in managing classroom activities. Integrated Gemini LLM for real-time text generation and customization.
Sep 2024 – Nov 2024
Multimodal Meme Classifier
Developed a multimodal pipeline using YOLOv8 for object detection and BERT for text extraction. Implemented fusion techniques to analyze visual objects and textual sentiment.
Feb 2024
Smart Medical Query App
Engineered a context-aware AI assistant using Llama 2 with domain-specific grounding on the MedQuad dataset. Top 5 Finalist in the Qualcomm-judged Megathon IIITH Hackathon.
Oct 2023
Network File System
Implemented a concurrent Network File System in C, utilizing low-level data structures for efficient file storage. Handled concurrent client requests using multithreading and socket programming.
Nov 2023
03. Skills
Languages
Frameworks & Libraries
Tools & Infrastructure
Core Competencies
04. Education
International Institute of Information Technology
Hyderabad, Telangana
B.Tech Computer Science Engineering
Oct 2022 – Jul 2026 (Expected)
- Member of Electronics and Robotics Club
Carmel School Kuwait
Kuwait City, Kuwait
High School Diploma
Apr 2006 – Apr 2022
- Member of Student Parliament
Awards & Certifications
- 🏆5th Place in Megathon'23 held by ECell IIIT Hyderabad (Qualcomm-judged)
- 🏆SAT Score: 1580/1600
05. What's Next?
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I'm currently looking for new opportunities in software engineering, AI/ML, and quantitative finance. Whether you have a question, want to collaborate, or just want to say hi, feel free to reach out!
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