Recommend me any good finance related projects that may try to solve an actual problem being faced in the industry now.

You could take a look at the various projects related to plaintext accounting . Personally, I like hledger.
Thank you for this! I can’t believe I didn’t know about PTA before.
Thanks a lot mate
ActualBudget. It solves my problem of not budgeting.
Will put this into consideration
Most finance related jobs are make more money faster, shaving ms off communication times can make a lot of money for high frequency trading.
Since I’m not at the advanced level, I have general knowledge of HFT. But I’m sure implementing such Software would require a deep understanding of them and complex maths
Some people say that HFT is about small optimizations and avoiding copies. You can do that if you have a deep knowledge of C++.
Or try something like QuantLib, it is a tradings’ library that I used aeons ago in some stock market company. https://www.quantlib.org/
They have a book too https://www.quantlibguide.com/A taste of QuantLib.html and Python bindings.



