Arun Palaniappan is a software engineer at Zerodha. He previously worked at Deep Forest Science as a machine learning engineer, building machine learning pipelines for drug discovery and handling backend and DevOps tasks with AWS. Before that, he was a project assistant at IIT-Madras, focusing on network security. Arun holds a Masters degree in Data Science from PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore, graduating in May 2021. In his spare time, he enjoys reading and practicing doing nothing.