Jun Jiang
I build across ML research, Go systems, and the web.
Less polish-for-show, more things that earn their keep.
About
About
I’m drawn to the small surface area: a CLI that does one thing well, a search loop you can actually read, a visualizer that makes the abstract click.
Most of my projects start as a personal annoyance or a thing I wanted to understand, then turn into something tight enough to ship. gaze and ephm came from everyday terminal friction; NAStoy from wanting to feel how architecture search actually behaves; dsavisualizer from being bad at picturing algorithms in my head; supercaloriemonster from not wanting a subscription just to count calories.
I care about tools that are honest: fast, legible, and free of the cruft that makes software feel heavier than it is.
Alongside building, I’ve worked on real systems: the algorithmic trading system at Kuvera Trading, where I’m co-founder and CTO; a frontend GUI for NASA Ames’ HADES aviation-safety tool; a microgravity crystal-growth experiment bound for the ISS as a team lead at Quest for Space; and co-founding Billion.
01 · project
gaze
A real-time terminal dashboard for your local dev environment. Kill the ghost process behind EADDRINUSE without leaving the terminal. Auto-discovers active ports, maps each to its process and PID, and keeps a history of when ports open and close. Sort by port, PID, or process, export snapshots to JSON/CSV, and kill a hung process with a single keystroke. Runs on macOS, Linux, and Windows, and refreshes every 3s.
02 · project
NAStoy
A minimal, educational implementation of Neural Architecture Search. Three search strategies on toy datasets (MNIST, CIFAR-10): uniform random baseline, population-based evolutionary search with mutation, and a REINFORCE RL controller that generates architectures autoregressively as 13-token sequences.
03 · project
wcforecast
An end-to-end sports-analytics pipeline for the 2026 FIFA World Cup. A current-Elo strength anchor, a Dixon-Coles-style Poisson goal model, and a calibrated gradient-boosted classifier are blended at the cross-validated optimum, then fed into a 10,000-run Monte Carlo tournament simulator that estimates every team’s odds of reaching each stage, served through a FastAPI backend and an interactive bracket dashboard.
04 · project
ephm
A zero-disk-footprint CLI for ephemeral notes. Every note carries a time-to-live: when the timer expires, it’s gone. Supports burn-after-read secrets, clipboard copies that self-wipe after 10s, and a kill switch that erases everything, permanently. A scratchpad that never outlives the moment you needed it.
05 · project
dsavisualizer
An interactive playground for data structures and algorithms, built to study without burning through YouTube tutorials. Press run, then watch everything play out at once, or step ahead one operation at a time with each move explained. Live and deployed.
06 · project
citybuildergame
A relaxing, resource-free voxel city-builder sandbox that runs in the browser. Drag out an area on any surface, extrude it up or dig it down, and paint it in nine block styles from concrete to deco. Dress the streets with trees, fountains, and bus stops, then walk through what you built. Time of day, weather, tilt-shift, and bloom are all adjustable, and the city autosaves in the browser.
07 · project
supercaloriemonster
A free, self-hosted calorie and macro tracker. Search foods across USDA FoodData Central and Open Food Facts, log them by day and meal, and see daily calorie, protein, carb, and fat totals. A phone-first PWA backed by a single SQLite file, with no subscriptions. Tested with pytest and built in CI on every pull request.
01 · experience
Kuvera Trading
Jul 2025 to present. San Jose, CA, hybrid.
- Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer
Founded the investment venture and lead its technical development. Designed and built the algorithmic trading system, including backtesting infrastructure and automated execution and risk management. Executing about $32M in average monthly volume.
02 · experience
NASA Ames Research Center
May 2025 to Aug 2025. Internship, Mountain View, CA.
- Software Engineer Intern
Helped develop the frontend GUI for HADES (Hazard Analysis Designer), a computational safety tool built under NASA’s System-Wide Safety Project and the In-time Aviation Safety Management System (IASMS). Helped build interactive diagramming interfaces and safety-assessment table generation, and researched best-practice packages for hazard detection in aviation.
03 · experience
Billion
Oct 2025 to present. San Jose, CA, hybrid.
- Co-Founder
Co-founded Billion and work across operations, R&D, and development. 3rd place winner of the Congressional App Challenge.
04 · experience
FRC 9400 BagelBytes Robotics
Jul 2025 to Sep 2026. FIRST Robotics Competition.
- Drive Team Coach
- Software Member
05 · experience
Valley Christian High School, MATE ROV
Aug 2025 to present. Mechanical, robotics.
- Mechanical Lead
Helped lead the mechanical design and assembly for the 2025/26 Navigator ROV.
06 · experience
Quest for Space
Oct 2025 to present. ISS research lab.
- ISS Research Lab Team Lead May 2026 to present
- ISS Research Lab Software Member Oct 2025 to May 2026
Researched the growth and piezoelectric properties of Rochelle salt and KDP crystals under microgravity, comparing results to Earth-grown samples. Analyzed whether microgravity produces larger, more uniform crystals with fewer defects, to examine how crystal structure influences performance in sensors, transducers, and electro-optic devices. Helped develop the software infrastructure and testing process for the experiment, which is currently awaiting launch to the International Space Station.
07 · experience
Chabot Space & Science Center
Sep 2024 to Jun 2026.
- Mentor
Everything, as a list
Work
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01
gaze
A real-time terminal dashboard for your local dev environment.
2026
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04
NAStoy
A minimal, educational implementation of Neural Architecture Search.
2026
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05
wcforecast
An end-to-end sports-analytics pipeline for the 2026 FIFA World Cup.
2026
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06
ephm
A zero-disk-footprint CLI for ephemeral notes.
2026
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07
dsavisualizer
An interactive playground for data structures and algorithms, built to study without burning through YouTube tutorials.
2026
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02
citybuildergame
A relaxing, resource-free voxel city-builder sandbox that runs in the browser.
2026
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03
supercaloriemonster
A free, self-hosted calorie and macro tracker.
2026
Experience
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01
Kuvera Trading
Founded the investment venture and lead its technical development.
Jul 2025 to present. San Jose, CA, hybrid.
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02
NASA Ames Research Center
Helped develop the frontend GUI for HADES (Hazard Analysis Designer), a computational safety tool built under NASA’s System-Wide Safety Project and the In-time Aviation Safety Management System (IASMS).
May 2025 to Aug 2025. Internship, Mountain View, CA.
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03
Billion
Co-founded Billion and work across operations, R&D, and development.
Oct 2025 to present. San Jose, CA, hybrid.
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04
FRC 9400 BagelBytes Robotics
Drive Team Coach
Jul 2025 to Sep 2026. FIRST Robotics Competition.
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05
Valley Christian High School, MATE ROV
Helped lead the mechanical design and assembly for the 2025/26 Navigator ROV.
Aug 2025 to present. Mechanical, robotics.
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06
Quest for Space
Researched the growth and piezoelectric properties of Rochelle salt and KDP crystals under microgravity, comparing results to Earth-grown samples.
Oct 2025 to present. ISS research lab.
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07
Chabot Space & Science Center
Mentor
Sep 2024 to Jun 2026.
Facts
- now
- Co-founder and CTO, Kuvera Trading
- research
- ISS Research Lab Team Lead, Quest for Space
- recently
- SWE Intern, NASA Ames
- languages
- Go, Python, TypeScript, JavaScript
- also
- PyTorch, FastAPI, React, Three.js, reinforcement learning, terminal UIs
- status
- Open to opportunities