Bartol Karuza
Quantiative Researcher
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolBartol Karuza is a senior quantitative researcher and software engineer with 13 years of experience blending mobile engineering, product leadership and data-driven trading research from Amsterdam. He has founded and led AI and fintech ventures (IslandFox.ai, interim CTO roles) while also shipping production mobile features earlier in his career, including contributions to the widely used react-native-cameraroll module. Currently focused on signal research in digital asset markets at BLoSH and supporting public-sector technology at ICTU, he bridges rigorous quantitative modeling with pragmatic engineering delivery. His background spans credit risk modeling, predictive mobility analytics and hands-on React Native/Android development, giving him a rare cross-domain fluency. Trained with an MSc in Software Engineering and business studies in the US and Netherlands, he combines academic rigor with product-first execution. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic builder who finds structure in noisy market signals and turns it into actionable systems.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BA Management Economics and Law, BA Management Economics and Law at HU University of Applied Sciences Utrecht (Hogeschool Utrecht)Master of Science (MS) Software Engineering, Master of Science (MS) Software Engineering at University of AmsterdamBusiness Information Management, Business Information Management at Western Michigan University - Haworth College of BusinessVWO NG, VWO NG at Stedelijk Gymnasium Nijmegen
English, Dutch, Croatian
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Github Skills (12)
ios10
react-native10
objective-c9
android8
audio6
android-ndk6
opengl-es6
audio-recording6
filter6
signal-processing6
frequency-analysis6
noise-reduction6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
react-native-cameraroll/react-native-cameraroll
Apr 2019 - Aug 2022
CameraRoll is a react-native native module that provides access to the local camera roll or photo library.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:76 releases, 1 review, 75 commits in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Bartol primarily contributed to bug fixes and maintenance within the `react-native-cameraroll` repository. Their work included addressing issues related to Android and iOS implementations, specifically fixing an Android groupType issue, fixing and deprecating the `saveToCameraRoll` method, and reverting a change related to handling PHAsset assets for videos. The user's contributions demonstrate a focus on the functionality of the camera roll interaction for both Android and iOS.
reactreact-nativecameracamera-rollnative-module
chargetrip/clusterbuster
Oct 2019 - Apr 2020
A Mapbox Vector Tile (MVT) map tiling server with built-in clustering and filtering
Contributions:13 releases, 52 commits, 33 PRs in 6 months
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