# Prashant Reddy Pilla

> Software Engineer in New York building AI systems for finance.

I build AI systems that have to survive contact with real money. Recent work includes production AI for institutional investors at Tribute Labs in New York, scouting early-stage companies for ADIN, and a run of open-source systems: an insurance-claims agent harness where a deterministic controller enforces procedure, Citework for grounded investment memos, and open-verse, an arena for LLM trading agents.

## Links

- Site: https://prashantpilla.com
- Resume: https://prashantpilla.com/resume.pdf
- GitHub: https://github.com/prashant-pilla
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prashant-pilla
- X: https://x.com/abstruderex
- Email: pilla146@umn.edu

## Research

- Forecasting S&P 500 Using LSTM Models — arXiv (Jan 29, 2025): https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.17366

## Work

- Tabi (2025): Solana payments, group bill splitting, and an AI advisor on your wallet. Colosseum Breakout 2025 finalist. https://github.com/prashant-pilla/tabi
- open-verse (2025): LLM trading agents compete on paper markets. An orchestrator ticks the market, calls the models, places paper orders, and a dashboard shows who is winning. https://github.com/prashant-pilla/open-verse
- Gopher Drone Sim (2025): 3D campus drone delivery simulation. A C++ engine with priority queues, weather, and leader/helper handoff talks to a Three.js frontend over WebSockets. https://github.com/prashant-pilla/gopher-drone-sim
- Citework (2026): Grounded investment-committee memos. The model extracts, Python does the math, and a human approves before a sentence of prose exists. https://github.com/prashant-pilla/citework
- Insurance Claims SOP Agent (2026): A conversational insurance-claims agent where a deterministic controller enforces the procedure and the LLM only extracts and phrases. https://github.com/prashant-pilla/insurance-sop-agent-harness
- ADIN Marketing Site (2025): Next.js marketing site for ADIN, an AI-first venture DAO, with dedicated flows for investors, members, and founders. https://github.com/prashant-pilla/Tribute-UI

## Ventures

- ADIN (Scout, active): Autonomous Deal Investment Network. An AI-first, community-powered venture network where scouts source early-stage companies and AI agents run diligence.

## Highlights

- Forecast the S&P 500 with LSTMs at 96.41% accuracy — arXiv · Jan 2025
- Colosseum Breakout Hackathon finalist — Solana · May 2025
- An insurance-claims agent where the LLM cannot skip a step — Python · CI · Docker
- First investment at ADIN — Nov 2025
- A campus drone delivery sim in C++ and Three.js — C++ · Three.js · Docker
- Palantir Foundry certified, twice — Jun 2026
- Dean's List, three years running — UMN · 2022–2024
- Outreach Coordinator, UMN Blockchain Club — 2024–2025

## Recent

- Sep 22, 2026: Shipped the insurance claims SOP agent harness: a deterministic controller enforces the procedure, the LLM only extracts and phrases.
- Sep 18, 2026: Published the maintained Gopher Drone Sim repo with a demo video and Docker image.
- Sep 8, 2026: Released Citework, grounded investment-committee memos where Python does the math and a human approves before prose.
- Sep 8, 2026: Refreshed open-verse: LLM trading agents competing on Alpaca and Binance paper markets.
- Jun 2026: Certified Palantir Foundry Aware Professional and Foundry & AIP Builder Foundations.
- Nov 11, 2025: ADIN made its first investment.
- Oct 2025: Started open-verse, an arena for LLM trading agents on paper markets.
- Sep 2025: Joined Tribute Labs as a Software Engineer and began scouting for ADIN.

## Facts

- Focus: AI systems for finance: agents, grounded analysis, trading infrastructure
- Education: B.S. Computer Science, University of Minnesota
- Certifications: Palantir Foundry Aware Professional; Foundry & AIP Builder Foundations; Yoga Instructor Level I (Sivananda)
- Cities: Auckland, Hyderabad, Minneapolis, New York
- Languages: English, Telugu, Hindi, Urdu, Spanish, French

Open to: AI Engineering, Forward Deployed Engineering, Software Engineering.