Summary
Karan Malhotra is a software engineer with nine years of experience building full-stack, cloud-native applications and DevOps tooling across startups and Amazon teams. He holds an MS in Computer Science from the University of Illinois Chicago and has delivered production features at Amazon using React, Java, and AWS, as well as owning infrastructure and automation work at Zycus that reduced deployments by 85% and enabled zero-downtime rollouts. Equally comfortable in front-end and back-end domains, he has engineered resilient asynchronous APIs, integrated third-party risk services, and automated cost-saving cloud operations with Terraform, Ansible, and Python. Now at AWS, he combines practical SRE practices with product-facing development, and he maintains a strong interest in entrepreneurship and finance that informs pragmatic, efficiency-driven solutions. Notably, his background spans both large-scale consumer systems and hands-on DevOps transformation, giving him a rare blend of shipping features and operational ownership.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science at SVKM's Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS)
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at University of Illinois Chicago
English, Hindi