Hi, I'm

Harkaran Bual

Backend & data engineer

I build the parts of software you don't see: the API, the database, the deploy pipeline and the analysis that turns raw data into a number you can trust.

Selected work

Selected projects

All 12 projects ↗

OxHack 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 report temperature and CO₂ through a Raspberry Pi to a Rust REST API and a React dashboard.

  • Rust
  • Actix Web
  • Diesel
  • SQLite

Author · 2021

Discord bots

FeatureRichBot, an open-source all-in-one bot in Java, and a custom bot for the community of maker YouTuber Integza.

  • Java
  • JDA
  • Kotlin
  • Python

Experience

Lately

Full timeline ↗
  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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