Kunal Mandalia
Senior Full Stack Engineer at Desia
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolKunal Mandalia is a senior full stack engineer and founder with over 10 years in tech, leveraging React, Node, and SQL across FinTech, manufacturing, startups, maritime, and private equity. He currently serves as Senior Full Stack Engineer at Desia, where he leads web development for knowledge management in Private Equity, collaborating with backend, DevOps, product, and ML engineers, and in his first month cut response times 10x by streaming outputs from LLMs via WebSockets and delivered the first major release as the sole web app and server developer. In parallel, he runs Kunal Mandalia Limited and Kunal Mandalia Property Limited in London, reflecting a blend of product-building and entrepreneurial ventures. Previously, at Advent International, he drove beta releases, unified search with GraphQL, led the creation of a regression suite with 600 tests, and coached four consultants to rapid proficiency across schema modelling and type generation. He values readable, testable code and effective collaboration, and is committed to mentoring others, including CS students through grraft, while shipping impactful, scalable software.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Economics, 2:1, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Economics, 2:1 at The University of ManchesterA-level, Mathematics, Economics, IT, Psychology, AABa, A-level, Mathematics, Economics, IT, Psychology, AABa at Christ's CollegeReact Nanodegree, Computer Software Engineering, React Nanodegree, Computer Software Engineering at UdacityLeadership and Professional Development (PgC), Organizational Leadership, Merit, Leadership and Professional Development (PgC), Organizational Leadership, Merit at Harper Adams University
English, Gujarati
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Github Skills (200)
react-boilerplate10
mapbox-gl10
styled-components10
webpack410
immer10
scaffolding10
browser10
redux-saga10
foundation10
reactjs10
react-router10
react-intl10
mapbox-gl-js10
redux10
session-store10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
kunal-mandalia/distributed-messaging
Dec 2018 - May 2019
Using messages between microservices to achieve an available, partition tolerant, eventually consistent system
Contributions:225 commits, 62 PRs, 161 pushes in 5 months
gossipzeromqpartitioningconsistentdistributed-computing
kunal-mandalia/youtube-looplist
Jun 2019 - Aug 2019
A Chrome extension to easily play your favourite YouTube videos on loop from any tab
Contributions:1 release, 53 PRs, 76 pushes in 1 month
videosjavascriptyoutube-videosyoutubechrome
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