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Aditya Panda · Quant · Systems · Founder

Systems thathave to beright.

CSE at MIT Manipal, co-founder & CEO of Forma Labs. I build order books, valuation engines and forecasting models, and show the tests behind them.

Trials per valuation
5,000
Order-book tests
32
Engine tests
23

Selected work(05)

Quant and systems projects, each shown with its evidence. Keep scrolling: each one brings its own object.

01 / 03 · Valuation

LuminaEngine

SEC EDGAR financials, a cohort-decay revenue model, CAPM discounting and 5,000 Monte Carlo trials. Reverse-DCF shows the growth the market is pricing in.

  • 5,000 trials
  • 23 tests
  • CI
  • MIT licence
  • Repo public soon
Read the Lumina case study

02 / 03 · Systems

FulcrumOrder book

Limit order book with price-time priority. Phase 1 complete, with the matching engine next.

  • 32 tests
  • ASan + UBSan
  • C++20
Read the Fulcrum case study

03 / 03 · ML

PraxisForecasting

OHLCV data fused with FinBERT-read SEC filings, aligned point-in-time so nothing leaks from the future.

  • In progress
  • PyTorch
  • Repo public soon
Read the Praxis case study

04 · Web

Glide

Real-time buggy tracker for the MIT Manipal campus, being rebuilt from prototype into a full-stack app.

  • Firebase
  • Leaflet

05 · Vision

ASL Interpreter

Two-way, real-time translation between American Sign Language and English, tuned for low-latency inference.

  • OpenCV
  • Real-time

Experience

Since starting at MIT Manipal in 2025.

  1. Forma Labs

    Co-Founder & CEO2026 – now

    Frontend-as-a-subscription for AI-native SaaS founders. I run the business side, clients, commercial terms and finance, alongside a technical co-founder who leads engineering.

  2. Bloomunity

    Co-Founder2025 – now

    Backend for campus clean-up drives: volunteer registration and event tracking.

  3. Placement Cell, MIT Manipal

    Junior Coordinator2025 – now

    Coordinating students, recruiters and faculty for internship and placement drives.

  4. Apple Developers Group

    Management CommitteeAug 2026 – now

    Developer workshops and technical sessions on campus.

  5. MIT Manipal

    B.Tech, Computer Science & Engineering2025 – 2029

    Manipal Institute of Technology

Also · AIESEC · IAESTE LC Manipal · E-Cell

Toolkit

What I reach for, grouped the way I use it.

Languages
Python · C++20 · C · Java · JavaScript · TypeScript · SQL (MySQL) · HTML/CSS · Bash
AI / Data
PyTorch · FinBERT · NumPy · Pandas · OpenCV · QuantLib
Web / Backend
FastAPI · Next.js · Firebase · Supabase · Leaflet.js
Systems
Modern C++ (STL, atomics, jthreads) · POSIX API · CMake · GDB · GoogleTest · ASan / UBSan
Tools
Git · GitHub Actions · GitLab · Linux · Jupyter

Certifications

  • Google Advanced Data Analytics Professional CertificateJul 2026
  • McKinsey Forward Learning ProgramJun 2026
  • Yale: Financial MarketsJun 2025

Contact

Say hello.

Happy to talk about systems, markets, or what we're building at Forma Labs.