Yajas Malhotra

Software Engineer

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada4 yrs 3 mos experience

Key Highlights

Prototyped a trading engine reducing memory usage by 85%.
Engineered a microservice handling 20 million messages daily.
Developed a review-moderation API achieving 72% accuracy.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech Software Engineer with strong full-stack capabilities.

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Skills

Core Skills

TypescriptJavaSpring BootAwsPythonJavascriptFirebaseHerokuFlask

Other Skills

ADMAPI DevelopmentAmazon Web Services (AWS)C (Programming Language)C#Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)Computer HardwareContinuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)Customer SupportDatadogDockerEnglishFull-Stack DevelopmentGitGo (Programming Language)

About

I’m a software engineer at Coinbase. Feel free to learn more about me at yajasmalhotra.com!

Experience

Coinbase

Software Developer

Mar 2025 – Present · 1 yr · Canada · Remote

Citi

Software Developer

Jul 2023 – Mar 2025 · 1 yr 8 mos · Greater Toronto Area, Canada · Hybrid

Prototyped new blotter for trading engine using Typescript and React.js, reducing memory usage by ∼85% over legacy application.
Developed translation layer with Java, making new application backwards compatible with existing
container infrastructure.
Engineered a Spring Boot microservice to retrieve and publish 20 million JSON messages daily via
WebSocket.
Managed the upgrade of credit products with Openshift and AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service, delivering successful deployments daily.
Built an error-reporting script with Python, reducing manual log isolation from 2 hours to seconds.

TypeScriptReact.jsJavaSpring BootWebSocketAWS+1

Ubc visual cognition lab

Software Developer

Nov 2021 – Jun 2023 · 1 yr 7 mos · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada · Remote

Created custom experiment conditions using industry standard JavaScript libraries like d3 and jsPsych.
Configured identity and access management for Firebase, ensuring appropriate permissions.
Deployed web application to Heroku, allowing remote access for up to 200 participants per term.

JavaScriptd3jsPsychFirebaseHeroku