rakshit k jha

Senior Software Engineer

• Currently working in the Account Security Team to increase user security and reduce compromise rates.
• Led the enablement of Passkeys (biometrics-based auth) for Facebook Web for creation and login.
• Built heuristics mapping to reduce account compromise from recycled domains and emails, integrating with Google RISC API.
• Previously improved Appeals Infra and UI to unblock $10-13M/year of annualized incremental revenue.
• Ensured compliance with EU DSA regulations and worked on regulatory verification requirements in the Authenticity team.
• Tech Stack: Hack (PHP), Python, Bloks, React, GraphQL, Relay.

Software Engineer Intern

• Migrated landing page from Hugo to Next.js and Sass to styled-components, improving Lighthouse performance and SEO to above 90.
• Developed HTTP REST endpoints for GDT token withdrawals using TypeScript, Node.js, and Express.
• Developed a monitoring system in Python for liquidity and spread of cryptocurrency perpetuals.

Software Engineer Intern

• Automated the colo release process, increasing release rate to three times a week.
• Designed a Python Client Library for WebSocket API, currently used by over 1000 users.
• Scripted in kdb+/q and Python to generate reports for market makers.
• Created a deep learning model deployment pipeline for predicting short-term price movement using Python and TensorFlow Serving.
• Implemented an OpenAI-based Twitter bot using CoinDesk/Coin Telegraph tweets and a QA bot for affiliates.

Researcher

• First author on "Deep Learning for Digital Asset Limit Order Books".
• Collaborated to forecast short-term price movements of cryptocurrencies using Temporal CNNs.
• Achieved 0.73 F1-score on walk-forward testing.