Archit Date
Senior Software Engineer at Bloomberg
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolArchit Date is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience building reliable backend systems and data pipelines, currently focused on ingestion and transformation of unstructured data at Bloomberg. He blends strong process orientation and object-oriented engineering with practical experience across security, intelligence-focused tooling, and enterprise consulting from roles at S2T and Deloitte. A prolific open-source contributor in niche but active communities, he has a track record of improving data parsing, legality checks, and tooling for projects like PKHeX and SysBot.NET that require careful binary parsing and compatibility maintenance. Comfortable across C#, Python and networking internals, he repeatedly tackles edge cases in file formats and protocol handling—skills honed by maintaining save editors and bot clients for gaming ecosystems. Based in London and educated at Stanford and SUTD, he brings both rigorous academic grounding and hands-on product delivery to teams that need dependable, detail-oriented engineering. Colleagues value him for shipping pragmatic fixes that prevent subtle data corruption and for turning messy inputs into auditable, testable pipelines.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology - BTech, ISTD, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, ISTD at Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD)Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at Stanford University
Github Skills (30)
hex10
python10
bots10
pokemongo10
plugin10
api10
dotnet-core10
googlebot10
discord-py10
bot-framework10
csharp10
api-design9
converter9
integrate9
dotnet9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
architdate/PKHeX-Plugins
May 2018 - Jan 2023
Plugins for PKHeX
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:42 releases, 11 reviews, 705 commits in 4 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Archit was a back-end developer working on plugins for the PKHeX program, which is a tool for Pokémon data editing. The user implemented and updated plugins such as "MGDBDownloader", "PGLRentalLegality", "Legalize Boxes", "ExportTrainerData", "SmogonGenner", and others, demonstrating a focus on enhancing the application's functionality related to data import, legality checks, and code generation. The contributions showcase the user's ability to integrate new features, address specific error conditions, and expand support for various Pokémon-related tasks.
nintendo-hackingauto-legalitypkhex-pluginsplugincsharp
kwsch/SysBot.NET
Jan 2020 - Nov 2021
sys-botbase client for remote control automation of Nintendo Switch consoles.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 120 commits, 7 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Archit primarily focused on fixing bugs and implementing enhancements within the core functionality of the sys-botbase client. They addressed errors related to data decoding and logging, improved the surprise trade and link trade bots, and added pokemon detection. Additionally, the user made adjustments to the underlying networking components and configuration parameters. Their contributions included modifications across multiple files, indicating an understanding of the overall system architecture.
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