About

Anand Karra is a talented Staff Software Engineer at IBM Cloud with a background in mathematics and computing. He is a recent graduate of the Indian Institute of Technology (ISM) Dhanbad, where he earned an Integrated M. Tech. degree. Anand has over two years of relevant experience in the technology industry, and he is skilled in software engineering, senior software engineering, research, machine learning, Kubernetes, mobile development, Scala, and deep learning. Anand has worked on various projects at IBM, including implementing a Go-based installer for the Watson Machine Learning (WML) Server with globalization support. He also added authentication support for JWT-based tokens using the Akka framework in Scala to the user management service in WML. Anand partially implemented a Go-based installer for a new WML offering using Kubernetes operator and Kubernetes Go client. He has also worked on adding support for R runtimes in WML. Before joining IBM, Anand worked as a Research Consultant at WorldQuant, where he developed market-neutral trading algorithms (alphas) and researched financial literature to seek out sources of alpha and aggregating these signals into robust models. He also developed quantitative strategies for efficiently trading equities to generate high arbitrage profits. Anand has a strong educational background, having completed his higher secondary education (12th) at Narayana Junior College, Kukatpally, Hyderabad, and his secondary education (10th) at Kendriya Vidyalaya Picket, Secunderabad. He then went on to earn his Integrated M. Tech. in Mathematics & Computing from the Indian Institute of Technology (ISM) Dhanbad. Anand is a highly skilled software engineer with a passion for technology and a proven track record of success. He is always looking for new challenges and opportunities to learn and grow in his field.