Summary
Kaifu Ji is a software engineer with nine years' experience specializing in low-latency market data systems, currently at Microsoft after senior engineering roles at ANZ and Airwallex. He brings strong C++, Python and SQL skills and deep hands-on knowledge of market feed protocols (ITCH, FIX) and exchange integrations, having onboarded major feeds like NEX, XLON, JSE and ASX. Kaifu has delivered end-to-end data pipelines—transforming direct and third-party feeds, generating synthetic data, and automating tests and CI/CD—while acting as tier-3 support to resolve operational issues. His background in payments (card issuing, VISA ISO) and interest in cloud, ML and computer vision position him to bridge fintech infrastructure with modern cloud-native and ML-driven tooling. Trained at Beijing Institute of Technology and the University of Melbourne, he combines rigorous engineering with practical product-facing experience.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Melbourne
Bachelor's degree, Information Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Information Engineering at Beijing Institute of Technology
Chinese, Chinese