Hi, I'm

Harkaran Bual

Backend & data engineer

I build the parts of software you don't see: APIs, data pipelines, deployment and the analysis behind the numbers.

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Things I've built

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OxHack 2026 · 2026

Eisengrau

An electricity-market research workspace for Great Britain. I built the backend: a FastAPI service over Tiger Data, the algorithm runner, forecast backtests and the CI/CD that deployed it.

  • Python
  • FastAPI
  • PostgreSQL
  • TimescaleDB

Team project · 2023

Smart meter

A home environment monitor: ESP32 sensors feed a Raspberry Pi, which posts readings to a Rust REST backend and a React dashboard.

  • Rust
  • Diesel
  • SQLite
  • Python

Author · 2021

Discord bots

FeatureRichBot, an open-source general-purpose bot in Java on JDA, and a discord.py bot for the maker YouTuber Integza's community.

  • Java
  • JDA
  • Python
  • discord.py

Experience

Recently

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  1. 2023 – Present

    Student

    King's College London

  2. Oct 2026

    Backend & infrastructure, Eisengrau

    OxHack 2026

    Built the API, analysis runner and CI/CD for an electricity-market research workspace in 25 hours.

  3. 2022 – Aug 2022

    E-commerce

    Pets & Friends

    SEO tagging, product data management and running the web-chat service.

Writing

Notes & posts

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