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title: "Krishna Poddar - Founder in Mumbai | Tal"
description: "Meet Krishna Poddar, The world belongs to the curious | Building The Unicorn Labs | CS & ORIE @ Cornell | Rapido, Google, Virtu Financial, Flexport, Nutanix based in Mumbai."
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# Krishna Poddar on Tal

## Headline

The world belongs to the curious \| Building The Unicorn Labs \| CS & ORIE @ Cornell \| Rapido, Google, Virtu Financial, Flexport, Nutanix

## About

Building something cool 😎

## Location

Mumbai

## Work experience

Founder at The Unicorn Labs, Aug 2025 \- Present · 1 yr 3 mos, Remote, Collection of AI tools I built for personal use, which have added value for 1500\+ people Making High School students more curious about the world and enabling critical and creative thinking https://theunicornlabs\.com/ https://lab\.theunicornlabs\.com/

Data Scientist at Rapido, Apr 2025 \- Present · 1 yr 7 mos, Causal Inference and Data Science at India's Largest Ride Sharing Platform

Software Engineer at Flexport, Mar 2023 \- Oct 2023 · 8 mos, Seattle, Washington, United States, 0 \-> 1 projects

Quantitative Research Analyst at Virtu Financial, Aug 2022 \- Dec 2022 · 5 mos, New York, NY, Reinforcement Learning for FX portfolios

Graduate Teaching Assistant at Cornell University College of Engineering, Aug 2020 \- Dec 2022 · 2 yrs 5 mos, New York City Metropolitan Area, May ‘22 \- Dec ‘22 Graduate Teaching Assistant for “Quantitative Trading Strategies” with Professor Sasha Stoikov Jan ‘22 \- May’22 Graduate Teaching Assistant for Engineering Stochastic Processes with Professor Jim Dai Jan ‘20 \- Jan ‘22 Teaching Assistant for Practical Tools for Operations Research, Machine Learning & Data Science Professor Peter Frazier \(Spring 2021\)\. Professor Madeleine Udell \(Spring 2020\)\. Aug ‘20 \- Dec ‘20 Teaching Assistant for Statistics and Probability for Engineers with Professor Jamol Pender \(Fall 2020\)

## Education

Master of Engineering \- MEng Financial Engineering, Operations Research and Information Engineering, Cornell University

Bachelor of Science \- BS, Computer Science \+ Operations Research and Information Engineering \(double major\), Cornell University

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