Ronit Jain is a software engineer with eight years of hands-on experience building backend systems and algorithmic trading infrastructure, currently contributing at QuantConnect. He founded and scaled AlgoBrain to enable passive income through algorithmic strategies, and has core expertise integrating Indian brokerages and market data into the popular Lean trading engine (including Zerodha support, symbol mapping and timezone fixes). Comfortable owning end-to-end projects, Ronit blends a strong CS foundation from LNM Institute with product-minded engineering and a keen interest in finance and entrepreneurship. Based in Jaipur, he repeatedly bridges research-grade tooling and production deployments, making him a go-to engineer for market integrations and live trading systems.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
BTech - Bachelor of Technology, Communication And Computer Engineering, BTech - Bachelor of Technology, Communication And Computer Engineering at The LNM Institute of Information Technology
Lean Algorithmic Trading Engine by QuantConnect (Python, C#)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:11 reviews, 39 commits, 45 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Ronit implemented support for the Indian market within the trading engine, specifically integrating with the Zerodha brokerage. This included creating a new `SymbolData` class, modifying the symbol mapper, and handling exchange-specific information. The user also added functionalities for backtesting and live deployments through Zerodha, customizing product types for fetching positions, holdings and placing orders. Additionally, they addressed timestamp and timezone related issues in data downloads.
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