Kush Vijapure
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Kush Vijapure

I'm Kush, a Finance + Computer Science double major at Texas A&M (BBA Finance, BS Computer Science, 4.00 major GPA, May 2028).

Experience

From the desk to the round.

Software Engineering Intern Apr–Aug 2026
Westlake Securities · Austin, TX

Automated financial data normalization for the entire deal team with a Python tool for QuickBooks/NetSuite exports, built an MCP server connecting Claude to GFData (the bank's internal financial database), and a Streamlit dashboard tracking model pipelines across active deals.

Machine Learning Researcher Jan–May 2026
AfterQuery (YC W25) · San Francisco

Moved from a finance lab to an ML research role for strong technical performance; built reference solutions and test suites in Python/SQL, and reviewed AI-generated code for logic errors, scalability issues, and anti-patterns.

AggieBuy Software Engineering Intern Aug 2025–May 2026
Amazon Business · College Station, TX

Shipped Amazon Business as a catalog into Texas A&M's AggieBuy platform, resolved 30+ bugs in legacy mainframe integration using REST/SOAP services, and managed middleware pipelines passing XML/JSON between SQL and Java/.NET systems.

Data Analyst May 2025–Present
Break Debate · Houston

Built Python tools automating pricing, client tracking, and reporting across ~$650K annual revenue, plus an LLM model on ~100 acquisition calls that raised close rates from 9% to 20% and membership to 50%. Designed and maintained the company website to improve onboarding, service visibility, and payment clarity.

Software & Technology Consultant May 2025–May 2026
BASIS Independent Silicon Valley · San Jose

Built an auto-updating MCP synced to Tabroom and OpenCaselist tracking opponent tendencies, win rates, and judge biases; resolved 100+ team tech issues and built custom VBA macros for Verbatim.

Projects

Shipped & compounding.

AI Guitar Tutor GitHub ↗

Browser-based practice coach that splits the two questions a teacher answers: a YIN pitch detector and chroma chord matching grade what you played from audio, while MediaPipe hand landmarks grade how you played it. Runs fully client-side — camera and mic never leave the machine.

TypeScriptMediaPipeWeb AudioDSP
MaroonLife maroonlife.app

Built and maintained backend services for a campus lifestyle & events app rated 4.8★ on the iOS App Store — grew it to 2,000+ users and helped ship the final product on launch day.

BackendiOS
Automated Credit Management Database

SQL database linking 50 customers, 412 transactions, and 15 employees — automates service pricing and logging, supporting $100K+ in revenue since launch.

SQLPostgreSQL

Leadership & Involvement

Around campus.

Texas A&M RAISE Initiative Incoming · Aug 2026
Machine Learning Researcher

Collaborating with the Director of the Mays Innovation Research Center to research efficient electronic ML labor markets.

Aggies on Wall Street + The Reveille Fund Incoming · Aug 2026
IB accelerator & $11M fund

Selected as 1 of 22 students for an investment banking career accelerator, and 1 of 20 to help manage the $11M Reveille Fund.

Aggie Coding Club Sep 2025–Present
Tutoring & ML workshops

Tutored students and ran ML workshops — including training the student who won the A&M AI Pokémon bot competition.

Awards & Skills

The book.

Awards

  • National Merit Finalist Academic
  • Harvard Debate Championship — LD 1st Place Speaker Debate
  • Texas Debate Championship — LD 1st Place Speaker Debate
  • 2× AIME Qualifier Math
  • SAT 1560 — Math 800 Academic

Skills & Languages

SQLPythonJava/JavaScriptC/C++/C# RustOCamlHaskellSolidityVBA BashHTML/CSSLaTeX NumPyPandasOpenCVScikit-learn StreamlitSparkReinforcement Learning BloombergS&P Cap IQ HindiMarathiSpanish

Contact

Open a position.

Recruiting, projects, or a good debate — the desk is open.

KUSH VIJAPURE · COLLEGE STATION, TX · ▲ OPEN TO OPPORTUNITY