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Priya Chakraborty

Lead Developer & Technical Writer

Priya Chakraborty cut her teeth on distributed systems at Stripe, where she spent four years building payment processing infrastructure handling millions of daily transactions. She left in 2024 to pursue her fascination with financial automation, joining Bot for Kalshi to architect the platform's core trading engine. Priya holds a BS in Computer Science from Georgia Tech and is an active open-source contributor, maintaining several Python libraries for financial data processing. Her technical writing philosophy: if a tutorial needs more than one read-through to follow, it's the writer's fault, not the reader's. She writes code in Python and Go, thinks in systems diagrams, and believes every complex concept can be explained with the right analogy.

Articles by Priya

Kalshi Bot Monitoring and Alerting for Production Trading Systems
Trading Bots

Kalshi Bot Monitoring and Alerting for Production Trading Systems

Learn how to monitor and alert on production Kalshi trading bots — covering health checks, PnL drift detection, position limits, dead-man switches, and incident response.

· 9 min read
Kalshi WebSocket vs REST API: When to Use Each for a Trading Bot
Trading Bots

Kalshi WebSocket vs REST API: When to Use Each for a Trading Bot

Learn when to use the Kalshi WebSocket API vs REST API in your trading bot. Covers latency, polling limits, orderbook streaming, and practical architecture patterns.

· 8 min read
How to Host a Kalshi Trading Bot: Railway, Heroku, AWS Lambda, and VPS Compared
Trading Bots

How to Host a Kalshi Trading Bot: Railway, Heroku, AWS Lambda, and VPS Compared

Compare Railway, Heroku, AWS Lambda, and self-hosted VPS for running a Kalshi trading bot 24/7. Costs, latency, setup complexity, and our recommendation for each use case.

· 9 min read
Trading Bots

Why Your Kalshi Bot's P&L Is Probably Wrong

Kalshi's order-status API returns filled_price=None for filled orders, so most bots book the limit price and over-report losses ~2.4x. How to detect and fix the phantom-loss trap.

· 8 min read
AI & Automation in Prediction Markets: The 2026 Landscape
AI & Automation

AI & Automation in Prediction Markets: The 2026 Landscape

How AI and LLMs are transforming prediction market trading — signal generation, multi-agent systems, and building AI-powered Kalshi bots.

· 15 min read Essential Guide
The Open-Source Kalshi Bot Ecosystem: 30+ Projects Worth Studying in 2026
Trading Bots

The Open-Source Kalshi Bot Ecosystem: 30+ Projects Worth Studying in 2026

Catalog of every open-source Kalshi trading bot: AI agents, market makers, arbitrage and weather bots — with honest notes on what each does well.

· 18 min read
Kalshi API Tutorial: Authentication, Markets & Orders
Trading Bots

Kalshi API Tutorial: Authentication, Markets & Orders

Complete Kalshi API guide — authentication, markets, orderbooks, placing orders, and managing positions. With Python examples.

· 16 min read
How to Build a Kalshi Bot with Python (Step-by-Step Guide)
Trading Bots

How to Build a Kalshi Bot with Python (Step-by-Step Guide)

Build your first Kalshi trading bot with Python in under an hour. Covers authentication, market data, orders, and a working bot.

· 15 min read
The Complete Guide to Kalshi Trading Bots (2026)
Trading Bots

The Complete Guide to Kalshi Trading Bots (2026)

Yes, Kalshi allows trading bots. Complete 2026 guide: types of bots, how they work, and how to build or use one for automated trading.

· 18 min read Essential Guide