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Sydney, AU · open to opportunities

Janhav Khanna.

I build data systems

Software engineer at SAS Institute in Sydney, working where code, statistics and money intersect. I build PostgreSQL data systems and analytics for some of Australasia's largest organisations — and in parallel, design and ship my own products: MonkeyLedger and LiveNearer.

LOC Sydney, AU
ROLE Senior Contributor · SAS
EDU CS · Stats · Finance · UoA
LOCAL --:--
View work → Get in touch
SE · 2026
Portrait of Janhav Khanna
JANHAV KHANNA
SOFTWARE ENGINEER · SYDNEY
Python PostgreSQL SAS Java JavaScript SQL Data Engineering R Computer Science Statistics Finance Excel Automation
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About me

The short version

I'm a software engineer based in Sydney, working at SAS Institute on enterprise data delivery — PostgreSQL architecture and schema design, board-ready dashboards and Excel-automation pipelines for some of Australasia's largest organisations.

My degree is a conjoint in Computer Science, Statistics and Finance from the University of Auckland — a combination I chose deliberately, because the most interesting problems live where those three fields collide. Four Top Achiever Awards across the programme.

The best work I do, I do because I want it to exist.

Outside SAS I design and ship two products end-to-end. MonkeyLedger — an AI-augmented personal-finance app for AU and NZ — and LiveNearer — a suburb-discovery platform scoring neighbourhoods by liveability across Australasia. Both are full-stack and live in production.

When I'm not coding I'm on a tennis court, in the kitchen, or out walking my Golden Retriever, Buddy.

now.md · ~/work/current
Active · May 2026

A snapshot of what I'm working on right now — refreshed each month.

Day job
PostgreSQL architecture & data delivery on SAS's flagship NZ programme
Shipping
MonkeyLedger v19 · personal finance for AU and NZ
Building
LiveNearer · suburb scoring across Australia and New Zealand
Researching
Polymarket BTC trading bot · LightGBM with HMM regime detection
Tooling
Authoring Claude Code skills for SEO, a11y, security and performance
Reading
Advances in Financial Machine Learning · López de Prado
Next cert
PMP · building on CAPM (2024)
Off-screen
Tennis · cooking · long walks with Buddy 🐕
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Yrs · Engineering
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Top Achiever Awards
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2026 Realisation
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Curiosity
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Experience & education

2018 — 2026
2026 — now Senior Contributor SAS Institute Sydney

Sydney chapter · enterprise data & indie products

Relocated from Auckland to Sydney. Continuing as a senior contributor on SAS's flagship NZ data programme — PostgreSQL architecture, schema design, board-ready dashboards and Excel-automation pipelines for senior client stakeholders. Sustaining strong realisation across the year.

Outside the day job: shipping MonkeyLedger v19 — an AI-augmented personal-finance app for AU and NZ — scaling LiveNearer across Australian and New Zealand cities, and prototyping a production-grade Polymarket BTC trading system built on LightGBM with an 8-state HMM regime detector and triple-barrier labelling.

Also authoring a library of Claude Code skills — accessibility, SEO/GEO, security audit, web performance, schema markup — packaged for reuse across projects.

PostgreSQL Data Delivery AI Tooling Indie Products
2025 Senior Contributor SAS Institute

Senior contributor · flagship programme

Senior contributor across SAS's flagship NZ data programme. Scope spanned data architecture, visualisation and automation.

  • PostgreSQL management — schema architecture, DDL authoring, migrations across staging and production.
  • Production dashboards — board-ready data visualisation for senior stakeholders.
  • Excel automation — formula-driven suites and workbook pipelines replacing manual reporting.
  • Client artefacts — from raw data through to executive-ready outputs.
PostgreSQL Data Viz DDLs Excel Automation
2024 Enterprise Delivery Advisory

Enterprise delivery · at scale

Contributed to flagship programmes including insurance automation, IRD data quality, MSD modernisation and a major enterprise platform migration.

Earned CAPM (Certified Associate in Project Management). Appointed to the AUT Computer & Mathematical Sciences Industry Advisory Board.

CAPM AUT Advisory IRD · MSD
2023 Permanent Role

Full-time at SAS · data & analytics

Internship converted to a permanent position. Working on data quality and analytics for public and private sector clients across NZ and Australia. Attained SAS Certified Specialist — Base Programming Using SAS 9.4.

SAS Certified Specialist Full-time
2022 Graduation Industry Entry

Graduation & industry entry

Awarded Top Achiever in HCI and Computer Graphics. Internship at Billdr (fintech). Graduated and secured a permanent offer from SAS Institute.

Fintech Internship HCI
2021 Year 3 · UoA

Object-oriented systems & student leadership

Awarded Top Achiever in Object-Oriented Software Development. Elected Executive & Social Media Manager at UoA Esports (500+ members).

OO Software Dev UoA Esports Exec
2020 Year 2 · UoA

Finance conjoint added · broadening the lens

Added Finance as a third conjoint alongside Computer Science and Statistics. Awarded Top Achiever in Data Technologies and Economics. Joined UoA Esports social media team.

2019 Year 1 · UoA

University of Auckland · first year

Commenced BSc in Computer Science and Statistics. Awarded Top Achiever in Introduction to Software Fundamentals.

2018 High School

Macleans College · merit endorsement

Graduated with a Merit endorsement. Secured early entry into UoA's BSc in Computer Science and Statistics.

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Skills & tools

Engineering toolkit
Languages // daily
PythonCore
SQLCore
JavaCore
JavaScriptStrong
HTML / CSSCore
R / R MarkdownStrong
C / C++Familiar
Data & analytics // platform
SAS PlatformCore
PostgreSQLCore
Excel AutomationCore
Data VisualisationCore
DDL AuthoringStrong
XML / Data FormatsStrong
Statistics & MLStrong
Tools & practice // delivery
Git · GitHubCore
Claude Code · MCPCore
BootstrapStrong
Mapbox · OverpassStrong
Google Drive APIStrong
Project ManagementCore
Stakeholder ReportingCore
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Selected work

Things I've shipped
Live

MonkeyLedger

monkeyledger.com

Single-file personal-finance app with Google Drive sync and AI-augmented insights via Groq's API. Production-ready: rate limiting, API-key obfuscation, full legal disclosures, AU/NZ focus.

HTML JavaScript Google Drive API Groq AI
Visit site → v19 · 2026
Live

LiveNearer

livenearer.com

Suburb-discovery platform scoring neighbourhoods across Australia and New Zealand by amenity, transport and lifestyle factors. City pages live for Sydney, Melbourne, Perth and Auckland.

JavaScript Overpass API Mapbox AU/NZ
Visit site → 2026

Twitter Sentiment Engine

github.com/JanhavK

Custom NLP sentiment classifier built on Cambridge dictionary lexicons — ~85% accuracy. Integrated with the Twitter Developer API for live hashtag and timeline sentiment tracking.

Python NLP Twitter API
GitHub → ~85% acc

Number Plate Recognition

github.com/JanhavK

Computer-vision pipeline: greyscale, histogram stretching, mean blur, thresholding, morphological operations. DFS-based connected-components for plate localisation, then crop and OCR.

Python Image Processing Computer Vision
GitHub → UoA · 2021

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Awards & certifications

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SAS Certified Specialist
SAS Institute · 2023
SAS Certified Specialist — Base Programming
CAPM
PMI · 2024
CAPM — Project Management
Top Achiever Award
University of Auckland
Top Achiever — Software Fundamentals
Top Achiever Award
University of Auckland
Top Achiever — Data Technologies
Top Achiever Award
University of Auckland
Top Achiever — Object-Oriented Software
Top Achiever Award
University of Auckland
Top Achiever — HCI & Computer Graphics
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What I'm building toward

The long arc
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Solution architecture · at the data layer

Deepening expertise across the SAS platform toward AI-augmented, cloud-native enterprise systems. The long-term direction: solution architecture across data and fintech.

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Indie products · built to last

Growing MonkeyLedger and LiveNearer from side projects into real products with real users — designed and shipped end-to-end, to production standards.

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Project ownership · delivery-first

Building on CAPM toward PMP and broader project ownership — governance, client relationships and cross-functional delivery led by example.

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International chapter · Sydney & beyond

The Auckland-to-Sydney move opens Australia's fintech ecosystem, broader cross-border networks, and a path toward ANZ and global programmes.

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Let's build something good.

Open to roles and collaborations — especially in fintech, data infrastructure or product engineering. Best way to reach me:

janhavkhanna@gmail.com Click to copy
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