Summary
Pritom Kundu is a PhD student and Graduate Teaching Assistant at Stony Brook University with 10 years of software engineering experience spanning backend systems, fintech, and blockchain. He has a strong competitive-programming pedigree as the ICPC World Finals West Champion (2020) and is proficient in C, C++ and Python with a focus on algorithmic problem solving. At Priyo he built production-grade APIs, CI/CD pipelines and authentication/onboarding flows, cut build times 8x, and helped migrate services to GCP to save ~$8k annually. He also contributed to blockchain performance and resilience at LATOKEN by improving transaction finality and making a consensus protocol persistent. Comfortable moving between research and production, he combines rigorous algorithmic thinking with practical engineering that drives measurable product and cost improvements. Based in the New York City metro area, he brings both academic depth and hands-on delivery across distributed systems and fintech domains.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Stony Brook University