Yash Kothari
Software Engineer 2 at Lendbuzz
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolYash Kothari is a backend-focused Software Engineer with 8 years of engineering experience and 4+ years building scalable, event-driven systems in fintech and consumer apps. Based in Boston, he has driven major platform improvements at Lendbuzz—architecting an event-driven auto-approval engine that tripled auto-approval rates, migrating monolith components to microservices, and designing a Kafka/OpenSearch search pipeline serving millions of borrowers and dealers. His background spans big-tech reliability work at Google and Amazon, an AutoML research track improving model pipelines, and a founder CTO role that built a Firebase backend supporting 10K users and designs for 1M+ DAU. An active open-source front-end contributor to FOSSASIA projects, he blends strong systems design with hands-on frontend polish and a knack for turning operational problems into automated, measurable improvements.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, 8.84/10, Bachelor of Engineering, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, 8.84/10 at Bhartiya Vidya Bhavans Sardar Patel Institute of Technology Munshi Nagar Andheri MumbaiMaster's degree, Computer Science, 4/4, Master's degree, Computer Science, 4/4 at Khoury College of Computer Sciences
Github Skills (9)
html10
css10
responsive-design10
javascript10
website-design10
front-end-development10
game-development9
ui-design8
audio7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
fossasia/gci17.fossasia.org
Dec 2017 - Jan 2018
FOSSASIA Google Code-In Website 2017/18 https://gci17.fossasia.org
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:28 commits, 68 PRs, 167 comments in 25 days
Contributions summary:Yash primarily contributed to the front-end development of the website, focusing on content updates and adding interactive elements. The contributions include adding links to external websites, and social media integration. The user also introduced features related to student projects and added a public code image. Furthermore, the user updated the website's design with layout and visual changes.
google-code-injavascriptreactfirebase
fossasia/labyrinth
Jan 2018 - Jan 2018
FOSSASIA Labyrinth
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:58 commits, 52 PRs, 150 comments in 9 days
Contributions summary:Yash primarily contributed to the front-end of the project, focusing on UI enhancements and the addition of new tiles and elements within the game's environment. They modified existing UI components, added visual elements like new tiles and characters, and integrated audio functionality, enhancing the user experience. These changes involved modifications to HTML, JavaScript, and potentially asset files.
labyrinth
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