Jamal Khan

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  • Maximum continous sequence profit

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    An interesting concept in Finance and Computer Science is if we have some historical data about the price of a security and we want to see the maximum profit we can make. (Assumption: we can only carry out one buy and one sell action) Let’s assume that time is represented by natural numbers as opposed…

  • Summer 2012 – Silicon Valley

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    A little over a year ago, I came back from an amazing summer at Silicon Valley in California. Here’s a small guide / story for anyone thinking about going out there to work, or if you’re just curious about my experience there. Motivation As part of my degree requirements at Imperial College London, we were…

  • Pesapy : M-PESA API for Python

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    Over the summer I had some time and decided to work on a python API for M-PESA. The inspiration was drawn from the pesaPI project. I’ve also included an example of how to use it via a simple python Flask application. https://github.com/jamalzkhan/pesapy

  • My final piece of homework

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    I just recently completed my degree at Imperial College London and my masters project was on ‘Performance Evaluation of Cloud Services’ (yes, I didn’t even know what this mean’t when I chose the project). Essentially what I tried to accomplish was to look at the performance and cost implications of hosting cloud computing applications. My…

  • Coding Guide

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    So I’ve been meaning to put this up for a while, I compiled a small project containing some common algorithms and coding techniques which I used to practise for interviews and tests. It’s here on Github and the direct link on my Dropbox is here. Enjoy 🙂

  • Seedcamp 2011

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    After interning in London for the summer, I had the opportunity of helping out with Seedcamp week 2011. Seedcamp is Europe’s largest tech startup accelerator programme. There were 4 main days, Entrepreneurs, Product, Growth and Demo day. The energy throughout the whole week was intense as a whirlwind of more than 100 entrepreneurs and venture…

  • Silicon Valley comes to Cambridge (svc2c)

    Silicon Valley comes to Cambridge (svc2c)

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    I visited Cambridge on the 18th of November 2010. I took a train from London Kings Cross at around 19:30. The evening was spent roaming around Queens’ College and Cambridge. In the morning I rushed to the Judge Business School to attend the Silicon Valley comes to Cambridge conference. The first keynote speaker was Mike…