Hari Kharel

Senior Associate June 2026 – Present

• Technical and business lead for Treasury, Operations and Risk; sets direction and builds hands-on.
• Set up Sona's cloud and delivery foundations (Azure, Terraform, GitHub Actions CI/CD) as reusable templates, so every new app, including Claude-built ones, deploys on working infrastructure from day one.
• Built an autonomous development platform (Claude Agent SDK, Azure) that builds full applications from Jira epics using parallel agent swarms, deterministic hooks and Playwright E2E tests, with live graph visualisation. Knowledge-graph traversal, shared context packs and a vector-DB lesson store cut cost per feature from $80 to $17 and run time by ~40%. Used by all 8 engineers.
• Built Sona's AI agent SDK (OpenAI Agents SDK, AG-UI, MCP Apps), embedding agents in every app that act on page data or call backends directly. Ships by default in all new applications.
• Built a gen-AI analytics platform (Python, React) where PMs and the CIO query internal and external data to generate reports and dashboards. Available in Claude and ChatGPT via MCP Apps. Adopted by the C-suite and 10 PMs.
• Built an AI-assisted DDQ platform for Business Development & Investor Relations, replacing vendor platforms quoted at £70–100k a year.
• Built a governed platform where 30+ non-engineers build and deploy apps, from dashboards to full React/FastAPI/Azure SQL applications, in a rootless Claude Code sandbox, with Copier templates and Claude skills enforcing structure.

Associate, Liquid Credit Strategies Dec 2024 – June 2026

• Built an AI coding and observability framework (MCP servers, custom Claude plugins) giving LLMs direct access to CloudWatch and Splunk logs. Halved time-to-production and raised test coverage to 90%.
• Tech lead on an in-house OEMS processing $300B+ in fixed income and derivatives; managed EMEA contractors and planned work with PMs, users and solutions architects.
• Built a FIX gateway across 8+ venues automating order staging, routing and fill ingestion for 500+ trades a day, saving the desk 8 hours daily.
• Re-architected the legacy Angular monolith into React/Angular micro-frontends with a shared AG Grid component library.

Analyst, Liquid Credit Strategies May 2022 – Dec 2024

• Built event-driven OEMS and FIX routing services, turning primary-market workflows and pre-trade risk checks into product features.
• Migrated a monolith to AWS microservices (C#/.NET 8, Python, SQS/SNS, Terraform), cutting deployments from hours to minutes.

AI Lead (currently Advisory) March 2024 – Present

• Built a Python LLM orchestration service for ordering, voice reservations, support and menu management on GCP, serving 100+ restaurants.
• Built the team's AI development pipeline: multi-model review (Claude, Codex), Playwright testing and browser-based integration testing via Claude Code.

Founding Engineer 2021 – May 2022

• Led React and React Native development from prototype to production. The platform now processes £50M in orders annually across 100+ stores.
• Built native modules to hold 60 FPS on constrained hardware; set up Expo OTA releases with Sentry.

Industrial Placement May 2019 – September 2021

• Built core infrastructure tools in Python and Angular for internal engineers, including a CI-job tracking tool.
• Built a Python tool to detect and reconcile database changes across environments, saving 3+ hours of manual work weekly.