Rishabh Malhotra
Senior Software Engineer at Square
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolRishabh Malhotra is a Senior Software Engineer with five years of experience building backend systems and store offer management platforms, currently advancing payments and commerce infrastructure at Square in Old Toronto. A University of Waterloo honours CS graduate who has worked across notable fintech and retail-tech teams—Credit Karma, Lightspeed, and Square—he combines product-focused engineering with an eye for scalable platform design. Rishabh has a track record of shipping reliable backend services and has moved between roles that span deep learning roots at IBM to iOS work early in his career, reflecting versatility beyond pure backend work. He values engineering that feels "practically indistinguishable from magic," aiming to make complex systems seamless at scale. Colleagues describe him as pragmatic and execution-oriented, often bridging domain knowledge in offers/commerce with strong system-design sensibilities.
5 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates, High School, High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates at Delhi Public SchoolBachelor's degree, Hons Computer Science( Dean’s Hons. List), Bachelor's degree, Hons Computer Science( Dean’s Hons. List) at University of Waterloo
French, Hindi, EnglishProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (1)
ls-rishabh-malhotra/Lightspeed-Gamma
Jan 2021 - Aug 2021
Contributions:72 commits, 69 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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