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title: "Koustubh Rao - Quant Technologist in Udupi | Tal"
description: "Meet Koustubh Rao, Quant Developer @ Qube Research & Technologies | IITB CSE ’24 based in Udupi. AI stack includes anthropic apis, antigravity, and claude code. Explore public work links including github."
image: "https://tal.club/meet/koustubh-rao/share-image"
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# Koustubh Rao on Tal

## Headline

Quant Developer @ Qube Research & Technologies \| IITB CSE ’24

## About

Designing and optimizing high\-performance data systems — from database internals and query engines \(Apache DataFusion, DuckDB\) to AWS big data platforms \(S3, Redshift, Athena, Iceberg, Batch\) and orchestration with Apache Airflow\. Experienced in handling and processing large\-scale weather datasets efficiently using HPC tools like Numba, Cython, Polars, and columnar formats like Apache Arrow\. Skilled in Python \(clean code\), Rust, and C\+\+, with expertise in building scalable, cloud\-native pipelines\. Proficient with development tooling and package managers such as Poetry, Tox, and Pants to ensure clean, reproducible, and maintainable builds\. Occasionally dabble in AI/ML projects as a bonus skillset\.

## Location

Udupi

## AI stack

anthropic apis

antigravity

claude code

claude

codex

cursor

## Work experience

Quant Technologist at Qube Research & Technologies, Jun 2024 \- Apr 2026 · 1 yr 11 mos, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

AI Research Scientist at SML, May 2024 \- Jun 2024 · 2 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Gen AI research

Teaching Assistant at Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, Jan 2024 \- May 2024 · 5 mos, TA for CS 208: Automata Theory and Logic

Undergraduate Researcher at Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, Aug 2023 \- May 2024 · 10 mos, Generative Speech Researcher

Quantitative Developer at Qube Research & Technologies, May 2023 \- Jul 2023 · 3 mos, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, Built a low latency, concurrent and consistent data storage system to store streaming stock data using AWS Redshift\.

AI Intern at samespace, Jun 2022 \- Jul 2022 · 2 mos, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, Contributed to the development of an AI based hiring platform\.

## Education

Bachelor of Technology \- BTech, Computer Science, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

## Public links

- github: https://github\.com/YKoustubhRao

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