Hemang Kandwal
Founder & CEO at Palumni VC
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolHemang Kandwal is a founder and CEO with nine years of software engineering experience building solutions for finance and healthcare, and a track record of turning ignored real-world problems into product-led ventures. He previously shipped over 20 proofs of concept at major firms—including BlackRock, J.P. Morgan, Craneware, and ARM—with several chosen for awards, and has held engineering roles at Palantir and JPMorgan. Based in London, Hemang blends full-stack engineering with investor perspective as an angel at Palumni VC and founder of Clidey, moving quickly from prototype to market. Early volunteer work includes a widely recognized hospice TV food-ordering app that demonstrates his focus on high-impact, user-centered solutions. He pairs a formal AI and computing background from Edinburgh and Glasgow with a founder’s urgency summed up by his guiding mantra: “If not me, who? If not now, when?”
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BSc. Artificial intelligence and Computer Science Tecnology, BSc. Artificial intelligence and Computer Science Tecnology at The University of EdinburghBSc. Computing Science Technology , BSc. Computing Science Technology at University of Glasgow
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Github Skills (75)
postgresql10
elasticsearch10
chatgpt10
golang10
parcel10
ollama10
developer-tools10
database10
mysql10
mariadb10
typescript10
mongodb10
docker10
redis10
openai10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
clidey/whodb
Jun 2024 - Mar 2025
A lightweight next-gen data explorer - Postgres, MySQL, SQLite, MongoDB, Redis, MariaDB, Elastic Search, and Clickhouse with Chat interface
Contributions:13 releases, 9 reviews, 246 PRs in 9 months
anthropicchatgptdatabaseelasticsearchexplorer
hkdeman/algorithms
Apr 2018 - Dec 2021
Contributions:27 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 9 months
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