About

Kunal Bhandari is a skilled Software Engineer 2 at Intuit with a passion for problem-solving. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer and Information Sciences from R.V. College of Engineering in Bangalore. Kunal is an enthusiastic programmer with strong communication skills. He is always eager to help others and welcomes job referrals. At Intuit, Kunal is part of the Financial Data Platform and Exchange Team, where he is responsible for building Intuit Data Exchange's Control Plane. This self-serving entity allows for the dynamic creation of infrastructure as a service. Kunal works with Graphql APIs for asset creation and REST APIs to interact with a centralized registry to store and fetch assets' runtime information. He also manages secrets and synchronizes information with Kafka topics for triggering any consumption of streaming events in the flow and deployments of runtime pods in the Kubernetes cluster. Kunal is also working with AWS Sagemaker and pyspark to run models on big-data sets to extract insights on users' liabilities. Prior to joining Intuit, Kunal worked at Citrix as a Software Engineer 1, where he helped manage a few Spring-Hibernate RESTful multi-tenant microservices for the Citrix SD-WAN team. He also worked on backend services without bombarding the browser with AWS S3 Large file Parallel threaded Chunk Uploads. Kunal worked on business logic migration from client UI and gateway service to independent microservices to make them granular, efficient, and light. He also worked on high data availability and checkpoints through the creation of backups to revert or load any previous changes. Kunal has also worked as a Software Engineering Intern at Samsung, where he worked with the data intelligence team. He worked on Samsung news and fact-checker apps to reduce latency, on-device scrapping, database, and analytics to support the working. Kunal's education history includes a Bachelor's degree in Information Science and Engineering from RVCE, Mysore, and a Matriculation degree in Information Science/Studies from Baden Powell Public School, Mysore. He also has a +1 and +2 degree in Science PCMB from Sadvidya PU Composite College, Mysore. Kunal's tech stack includes Software Engineering, AWS, Microservices, Backend, Sagemaker, Spring, Web, Kubernetes, Kafka, Infra, Docker, Javascript, Jenkins, UI, Frontend, NodeJS, Python, Mobile, and AI. With 2.52 years of relevant experience, K