Himansh Chitkara

Himansh Chitkara

computer engineering @ georgia institute of technology. studying computing hardware and systems architecture.
currently interested in: gpu systems and cuda optimization, realtime cv, inference-time compute for transformers, storage engines and low-latency infra, performance engineering

/sidequests

because some sidequests compound better than the plot.

June 2026

Macro Placement Challenge·Hudson River Trading

ranked 6th worldwide. built a gpu-accelerated chip macro placer with byte-exact scoring, multi-start adam descent, and incremental coordinate search.

May 2026

IMC Prosperity 4·IMC Trading

placed 19th worldwide out of 19,000+ teams.

April 2026

Meet Millennium, Miami·Millennium Management

1 of 25 invitees.

/previously

Jan 2026 - Apr 2026

Software Engineer Intern·Itential

operation services and insights. built across agentic ai infra and fullstack development for engineering workflows and microservices.

Aug 2025- Dec 2025

Software Engineer Intern·Intelligent Vision and Automation (IVA) Lab

ar navigation and spacial compute.