Kunal Jha
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolKunal Jha is a quant-focused MSc Financial Technology student in London with 11 years of engineering and investment experience, blending full-stack and blockchain development with systematic portfolio management. He has delivered production-grade web platforms and APIs at scale, architecting hybrid MongoDB/Postgres systems and fault-tolerant microservices, while also contributing backend enhancements to the popular open-source nakadi event bus. As a smart contract and blockchain engineer he’s deployed contracts on Ethereum Mainnet, built staking and DEX infrastructure, and integrated Ledger wallet authentication to strengthen security. On the investment side he has managed six-figure crypto portfolios for 100+ clients, achieving consistent risk-adjusted outperformance and developing client education programs that markedly improved literacy. Comfortable moving between low-level distributed systems and high-level quantitative strategies, he brings a rare mix of product delivery, security-first blockchain practises, and hands-on trading expertise.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and ScienceMaster's degree, Financial Technology, Master's degree, Financial Technology at Middlesex University
Github Skills (12)
javas10
kafka10
java10
api9
eventbus9
microservices8
microservices-application8
restful8
spring-boot7
junit6
postgresql6
testing6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
zalando/nakadi
Sep 2018 - Oct 2019
A distributed event bus that implements a RESTful API abstraction on top of Kafka-like queues
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 37 commits, 42 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Kunal's contributions primarily focus on enhancing the Nakadi event bus's backend functionality. They modified Java code related to subscription services, event type validation, and Kafka topic management. The commits also demonstrate work on integration tests and the addition of KPI event types. The user's work involves core components of the system related to subscription and event processing.
queuesjava-8streamsmessage-passingevent-driven
dice-group/HARE
Dec 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:13 commits, 8 pushes, 2 branches in 3 days
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