Arnav Malhotra
Software Engineer at Handshake
Arcata, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolArnav Malhotra is a pragmatic software engineer with 8 years of hands-on experience building latency-sensitive, full-stack systems using JavaScript/TypeScript, Node.js, React, and Rust. He has operated across the stack—designing microservices, owning Kubernetes and CI/CD pipelines, and configuring deployments with Docker, Nginx, AWS, and Cloudflare. At startups and product teams he’s driven performance optimizations, SOC 2 readiness, and runtime upgrades while collaborating with engineering, sales, and compliance. He also has founder experience running a scalable consumer product with Go, gRPC, PostgreSQL, and real-world operational responsibilities for thousands of users. Based in Arcata with Bay Area ties, he combines a developer’s curiosity for emerging tech with a track record of improving compile/start times and reducing infrastructure latency.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Arizona State UniversityComputer Science, Computer Science at Saint Francis High School
Github Skills (33)
localstorage10
json9
json-database9
storage9
embeddable9
nodejs9
database9
lodash9
embedded-database8
javascript8
electron8
error-reporting7
golang5
ai5
sdk5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
amcode21/progen
Jun 2019 - Aug 2025
Modular project template generation
Contributions:3 PRs, 23 pushes, 9 branches in 6 years 3 months
templateboilerplatemodular
ashah360/proxy-tester
Sep 2019 - Aug 2020
A lightweight proxy-tester chrome extension
Contributions:8 commits, 5 PRs, 33 pushes in 10 months
chrome-extensionproxy
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