Piyush Jha
Senior Software Engineer (Macro Quant Developer) at Balyasny Asset Management L.P.
Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong, China
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Top SchoolPiyush Jha is a Senior Software Engineer and Macro Quant Developer with eight years of experience building backend and infrastructure systems for global finance firms, currently at Balyasny Asset Management. A University of Hong Kong computer science graduate and World Champion of the Microsoft Imagine Cup 2020, he combines strong algorithmic chops with practical engineering in Java, Python, C++ and cloud-native tooling. His background spans data engineering and market-data platforms at Goldman Sachs, end-to-end deployment with Kubernetes/ArgoCD and multi-cloud (AWS/Azure), and early-stage blockchain R&D funded by Cyberport. Known for leading technically challenging projects, he favors backend and infrastructure problems where low-latency and reliability matter. Piyush’s competitive origins—30+ tech contests with more than 10 wins—underscore a persistent drive for innovation and rapid prototyping in fintech contexts.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Summer School Computer Science, Summer School Computer Science at The University of British ColumbiaThe University of Hong Kong (HKU)
English, Hindi
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Github Skills (27)
scoring10
virtual-machine10
loan-application10
bank10
azure-portal10
credit10
reinforcement-learning9
blockchain9
blockchain-network9
cryptocurrency9
ethereum8
ai7
intelligent5
classification5
malware3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
piy0999/Malmenator
Sep 2019 - May 2020
Network Based Intelligent Malware Detection, Classification & Elimination
Contributions:27 commits, 11 PRs, 23 pushes in 7 months
classificationmalware-detectionmachine-learningeliminationmalware
piy0999/Piyush_codes
Sep 2017 - Mar 2018
Contributions:15 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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