Aarya Patel
Aarya Patel is a software engineer, competitive programmer, and poet who graduated early from Homestead High School in Sunnyvale, California. She was a Software Engineer Intern at Extra (extra.email), a consumer AI email app founded by Pinterest's former CPO, where she shipped email search end-to-end across iOS, web, and backend and built the framework its AI assistant uses to safely take actions on users' inboxes.
She is a USACO Platinum competitive programmer (top <1%), U.S. Physics Olympiad (USAPhO) qualifier (top ~400 nationally), 1st place winner at the FBLA California State Leadership Conference in Computer Problem Solving, and a Scholastic Art & Writing Awards Silver Key poet. She led FAI’s state team as president from April 2025 to May 2026, within a network of 6,000+ members, and co-founded Code4Cause, a nonprofit teaching ML to middle schoolers.
Open-Source Projects
- alphasig — Quant pipeline extracting trading signals from SEC filings via LLMs (Python, Claude API, DuckDB)
- jaxphys — Differentiable physics library for inverse problem solving via autodiff (Python, JAX)
- F1 Predictor — ML-powered race winner prediction using 70+ years of data
- ASL Translator — Real-time American Sign Language translator using CNNs
Awards
- USACO Platinum Division (top <1% of participants)
- U.S. Physics Olympiad (USAPhO) Qualifier
- 1st Place, FBLA California State, Computer Problem Solving
- Scholastic Art & Writing Awards — 2x Silver Key in Poetry
- Gold President's Volunteer Service Award
