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title: "Harshit Jain - Quantitative Researcher and Developer in Greater Bengaluru Area | Tal"
description: "Meet Harshit Jain, Quant | ex CTO | CFA L1 | IIT KGP’22 based in Greater Bengaluru Area. AI stack includes anthropic apis, claude code, and codex."
image: "https://tal.club/meet/harshit-jain-5/share-image"
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# Harshit Jain on Tal

## Headline

Quant \| ex CTO \| CFA L1 \| IIT KGP’22

## Location

Greater Bengaluru Area

## AI stack

anthropic apis

claude code

codex

github copilot

langchain

langgraph

## Work experience

Quantitative Researcher and Developer at Momentum Algorithms LLP, Jun 2025 \- Present · 1 yr 4 mos, Bengaluru, C\+\+/Python Quant Systems \(Research\+Execution Workflows\) Momentum Strategies and Statistical Arbitrage

Chief Technology Officer at PayDirect, Jun 2024 \- Feb 2025 · 8 mo, Bengaluru

Software Engineer II at Honeywell, Jul 2022 \- Aug 2024 · 2 yrs 2 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Worked in Honeywell’s Sustainability Business Group, contributing to the development of an Electric Vehicle Charging Management System \(EV CMS\)\. 🚀 Key Contributions: • Played a pivotal role in developing and deploying multiple features for EV CMS, taking end\-to\-end ownership\. • Accelerated the product’s journey from the Minimum Viable Product \(MVP\) phase to production\. • Ensured performance, security, and scalability by writing clean, efficient, and maintainable code\. 🔐 Cybersecurity & Innovation: • Proactively implemented security scans for vulnerability detection and fixes, which became a widely adopted practice across all teams in the sustainability domain\. • This initiative led to the formation of a Cybersecurity Cohort, where I was recognized as a Cybersecurity Champion for my team\. Continuously learning, innovating, and driving impact at the intersection of sustainability and technology\. 🌱💡

## Education

BTech, Chemical Engineering and Micro Spcl\. in Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur

Master of Science \- MS, Financial Engineering, WorldQuant University

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