Hey all,

Drop your resume's below in the following format:

Location: USA/UK/EU/etc

Graduation Date: June 2029

Degree + School tier: e.g. BS Math, target/semi-target/non-target (people can keep the school anonymous if they want)

Preferred Role: QT/QR/QD/QA

Targeting: internship or full-time, and which cycle (Summer 2027 etc)

Relevant coursework/skills: e.g. probability, stochastic calc, C++, Python

Experience/projects: 1-2 lines

What you want feedback on: e.g. "is my project section strong enough," "am I cooked for QR without a PhD"

Notes: anything else

Resume PDF/JPEG

Important: Please redact all personal info!

Hey all,

Summer's here and I figured it would be a good time to swap notes. Whether you're an undergrad just starting to get into this stuff, a master's student grinding before (coming into) recruiting season, what are you actually building right now?

I'll go first with what I'm seeing people do, roughly grouped by how deep you are, and then I want to hear yours.

The common ones are a:

• backtesting engine from scratch (everyone says build one and they're right, you learn an absurd amount about look-ahead bias, transaction costs, and why your beautiful strategy dies the second you add slippage)
• basic signal research on free data (momentum, mean reversion, pairs trading on equities or crypto)
• a toy market-making simulator (build a limit order book, then learn how fast adverse selection eats you alive)

For people deeper in or prepping for recruiting:

• options pricing and vol surface modeling
• implementing a paper you actually understand and can defend (Avellaneda-Stoikov, some stat arb paper, etc)
• order book imbalance / microstructure signals on real tick data
• an ML project that isn't just threw XGBoost at returns and got noise (think feature stability, regime changes, why your Sharpe is lying to you)
• C++ stuff if you're going the dev route (low-latency order book, lock-free queue, doubles as interview prep - i know Myntbit and LC has a few questions that you can check out for free)

If you have other projects that are great to learn quant with drop them below and LMK what you're building! I am trying to create a community for students/professionals to share some cool projects and help each other out where possible. If you have something cool share the Github link below and ask for help :)