Mikunj Varsani
Full Stack Developer
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolMikunj Varsani is a Full Stack Developer based in Melbourne with 11 years of experience building high-performance web and mobile products, from real-time decentralized trading platforms to private messaging apps and blockchain integrations. He excels at shipping production-grade systems—recently leading the backend and full-stack work for a trading PWA that handled thousands of users and over $70M in lifetime volume—while pairing pragmatic frontend craftsmanship (React, Next.js, TypeScript) with scalable backend services (Node.js, tRPC, Prisma) and infrastructure automation on AWS. His open-source contributions show deep familiarity with secure messaging protocols and backend cryptography integration (Signal/Loki work on session-android), plus practical API and UX improvements on community projects like Kitsu. Comfortable mentoring small teams and owning end-to-end delivery, he blends a curiosity for new technologies with a nature-lover’s steady focus on reliable, user-centered software.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at Monash University
English
Github Skills (21)
database-api10
messaging10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
databases10
java10
ruby10
tcp-protocol10
javas10
api10
cloki10
activerecord10
signal-protocol10
communication-protocol10
lokijs10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
oxen-io/session-android
May 2019 - Jul 2020
Session Android - Onion routing based messenger [DEPRECATED SEE README]
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:251 commits, 48 PRs, 115 pushes in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Mikunj primarily worked on implementing and integrating features related to "Loki" (presumably a messaging protocol), specifically related to handling pre-key bundles, session reset, and group chat messages. Their commits demonstrate the addition of new classes and functions to support message decryption and processing of new message types. The user interacted with Signal protocol, and the code changes centered on integrating the Loki service within the existing framework, focusing on core backend logic.
messengerkotlinjavaandroid
hummingbird-me/kitsu-tools
Jul 2014 - Dec 2015
:hammer: The tools we use to build Kitsu, the coolest platform for anime and manga
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 3 PRs, 4 comments in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Mikunj focused on modifying the API and database interactions. They addressed issues related to the display of `updated_at` field, along with other fields, in the API and in the entities and fixed several errors. In addition, they modified the application by updating the library entry deletion, and modifying the search limit and improved the links on the front-end of the application. These changes improved the data presentation, functionality, and user interface.
kitsuhammerdockerhummingbirdmanga
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