Greetings!

My name is Aarti and I am a part-time analyst and full-time art historian. A graduate from Rutgers University with a double major in Art History and Computer Science, I currently work at Deutsche Bank in the Fixed Incomes (FX) division. Some of my research interests include cryptography, compilers, and 20th century Indian art (currently working on a research project in this field).

ABOUT

My name is Aarti and I am a part-time analyst and full-time art historian. A graduate from Rutgers University with a double major in Art History and Computer Science, I currently work at Deutsche Bank in the Fixed Incomes (FX) division. Some of my research interests include cryptography, compilers, and 20th century Indian art (currently working on a research project in this field).

Born and raised in New York, I enjoy knitting, solving crosswords, making art, and playing pool in my free time. In addition to these, I love learning new languages and traveling (recently returned from a trip to Benin!)

So you might be wondering, why art and technology? Well, here is some food for thought: for most of history, the word art was synonymous with technology. In fact, its intrinsic meaning did not change until the 19th century when the Industrial Revolution split the fine arts from the practical arts, more commonly known as Technology, with the advent of post-consumerist culture.

WORK

DEUTSCHE BANK

TECHNOLOGY ANALYST

October 2020 — Present | NEW YORK, NY

Municipal Capital Markets — Investment Bank

Technologies: Python [pandas, cx_Oracle, numpy], SQL, Git, Tableau

JP MORGAN CHASE & CO.

ASSET MANAGEMENT SUMMER ANALYST

June 2019 — August 2019 | NEW YORK, NY

Worked under product owner, writing gap and data analysis reports and completing independent projects. One project resulted in a ~50% clearance of obsolete data.

ASSET, INC.

UX DESIGNER

July 2018 — August 2018 | NEW YORK, NY

Storyboarded IOS app and designed logos/sprite images in adobe illustrator. Project resulted in an MVP and mockup specs for further development.

J. CREW

STYLIST

June 2018 — August 2018 | NEW YORK, NY

WORLD TRADE CENTER

OBSERVATORY AMBASSADOR

June 2016/17 — August 2016/17 | NEW YORK, NY

CODE

COMPILERIII Conditionals, Loops, and Optimization

Parses/tokenize input, builds an intermediate representation (AST), and generates the corresponding ILOC assembly code. The compiler also optimizes with constant propagation, allowing for a faster compile-time.

HANDWRITTEN DIGIT AND FACIAL RECOGNITION Machine Learning Training Model

Built a perceptron model which reached 100% digit accuracy and 86% facial accuracy. This project taught me that simple features can be powerful predictors.

COMPILERII

Boolean Logic Compiler

Built with Flex/Bison to create a lexical parser and tokenizer given LL(1) grammar rules.

SIMULATED MAZE SEARCHING Adaptive A* Algorithm

Implemented the Adaptive A* algorithm, which performs repeated fast-trajectory planning, to chart the most efficient path for an agent to a target given an unknown maze.

SKILLS

Programming: Java, C, Python, HTML5/CSS, SQL, Bash

Tools: Unix, Eclipse, PyCharm, Microsoft Office Suite, Git, Kafka, Jmeter, Maven, Tableau

Languages: English, Gujarati, French, Hindi