Yash Bhalodi

Product-minded Senior Engineer who bridges technical excellence with business impact, empowering startups to build and scale user-centric products efficiently. Expert in full-stack development and cloud infrastructure, with proven ability to lead cross-functional initiatives, optimize team velocity, and deliver solutions that drive revenue growth.

Experience

Senior Product Engineer

Zolidar

Oct, 2025 - Present

  • Authored the technical design and re-architected the core pricing engine to unlock a B2B2B reseller model. Replaced a brittle legacy system with a scalable Stripe infrastructure that handles complex hybrid billing (direct vs. advisor-paid), automated commissions, and granular discounts. Successfully migrated the entire customer base to the new platform and implemented telemetry to provide real-time business insights.
  • Architected and implemented a comprehensive serverless monorepo infrastructure using TypeScript, Turborepo, and Terraform, featuring automated resource discovery, code generation, and multi-environment deployment pipelines, enabling the team to iterate rapidly without infrastructure overhead and reducing deployment complexity by 80%.
  • Next.js
  • React
  • Typescript
  • PostgreSQL
  • Stripe
  • Prisma
  • tRPC
  • Python
  • Docker
  • FastAPI
  • AWS
  • Terraform
  • System Design
  • DevOps
  • GitHub Actions

Software Engineer

Zolidar

Aug, 2024 - Sep, 2025

  • Rapidly assumed full technical ownership of the core "Aha Planner" financial modeling product from the CEO, becoming the company's subject matter expert by deeply understanding its complex financial domain (business exit strategies, valuations), architecture, and underlying technology stack (Python, FastAPI, Pycel).
  • Designed and implemented a secure, scalable, and maintainable cloud architecture from the ground up on AWS (using Terraform, GitHub Actions) for a new financial document analysis service, significantly enhancing "Aha Planner's" usability by automating complex data entry.
  • Engineered a QuickBooks Online integration to automate financial data synchronization for the "Aha Planner," substantially improving user experience and data input efficiency.
  • Led the end-to-end development of these critical "Aha Planner" enhancements, including project management, collaboration with product stakeholders, and mentorship of a junior engineer, ensuring successful delivery and team growth.
  • Slashed service latency by 99.72% and boosted throughput by 36,186% for financial model evaluation through strategic caching, enabling high-value features crucial for user acquisition and revenue growth
  • Spearheading a team of 3 engineers, driving technical excellence, architectural decisions, and engineering best practices for GTM-stage features
  • Next.js
  • React
  • Typescript
  • PostgreSQL
  • Prisma
  • tRPC
  • Python
  • Docker
  • FastAPI
  • AWS
  • Terraform
  • System Design
  • DevOps
  • GitHub Actions

Software Engineer

Toddle - Your Teaching Partner

Jul, 2022 - Aug, 2024

  • Architected and executed high-performance messaging for Toddle app, including real-time chat using Ably.js, personal and channel chat, message reactions, and AI-driven drafting. Project resulted in a 14% revenue increase.
  • Led research and system design efforts to integrate OpenAI and Claude for sentiment analysis, deriving sentiment scores for school admin monitoring. Achieved a ~70% reduction in costs and a ~85% improvement in scalability.
  • Engineered and deployed a low-cost solution for displaying user online status using Ably with limited resources, resulting in a 50% cost reduction.
  • Initiated and created 10+ mobile app design system components in collaboration with product designers, ensuring a seamless developer experience and consistent user experience across platforms.

Associate Software Engineer

Toddle - Your Teaching Partner

Jul, 2021 - Jun, 2022

  • Led end-to-end integration of student assessment (continuum) in Toddle web app using React, Redux, and GraphQL, enhancing UX and increasing revenue by ~4%.
  • Enhanced Global Search performance by 70% using React profiler to identify bottlenecks and applying advanced React techniques, ensuring fast and smooth user interactions.
  • Integrated a third-party library into our platform by analyzing and understanding its source code despite insufficient documentation, achieving the desired functionality, resulting in ~12% increase in customer satisfaction.
  • Developed and led the end-to-end user onboarding flow using deep links and OTP sign-in, streamlining account creation for ~700k users.
  • Built integration service using Express.js and GraphQL, synchronizing data between platforms, resulting in ~18% increase in feature adoption.
  • Designed and developed an access control module with RBAC for web and mobile apps, enhancing security across 10+ modules.
  • Crafted a well-defined SDLC with JIRA and Agile practices aligned with team workflow, reducing the cognitive load of team members by ~80%, resulting in a 2x productivity boost across team members.
  • Mentored 3 interns in web and mobile app development, reviewing their PRs to ensure adherence to best practices, and guiding them to become integral parts of the team.

Mobile Developer - React Native - Intern

Toddle - Your Teaching Partner

Jan, 2021 - Jun, 2021

  • Implemented attendance marking, feedback collection, and product updates for Toddle iOS and Android apps using React Native, Redux, and Apollo GraphQL, enhancing user delight by ~30%.
  • Refactored codebases, resolving 50+ critical bugs in features like announcements and attendance management for improved performance.

Sales and Marketing Intern

AllEvents.in

Dec, 2019 - Jan, 2020

  • Improved lead generation by ~13% by designing and implementing targeted web push notifications, resulting in more effective outbound marketing campaigns.
  • Developed dedicated funnels to streamline and optimize the marketing process, improving overall efficiency by ~30% and conversion rates by ~12%.

UX & CS Intern

AllEvents.in

May, 2019 - Jul, 2019

  • Conducted UX audits on the existing platform and implemented enhancements to improve user experience.
  • Performed competitive studies to reassess the platform's UX and address pain points, resulting in a ~20% reduction in churn.
  • Redesigned the Customer Success experience by developing and writing the Knowledge Base and Chatbot flow, reducing customer support team load by ~60% and enhancing overall platform UX

Projects

Designed Kul, a new language for writing down a family's full structure: marriages, divorces, adoptions, generation after generation. Hand-authored in plain text, the file itself is the canonical record, and the format works for a single household just as well as a sprawling multi-generational lineage.

Wrote the spec, then built the toolchain in Rust as one workspace: parser, validator, formatter, language server, and WebAssembly bindings. The same engine drives the CLI, the VSCode extension, and the npm package.

One release pipeline ships it all: pre-built binaries for Linux, macOS, and Windows, the extension on both the VS Code Marketplace and Open VSX, and an npm package with TypeScript types generated straight from the Rust source.

PhotoPrune

Built a local CLI that finds near-duplicate photos in a directory using CLIP embeddings, Faiss similarity search, and perceptual hashing. Everything runs on CPU; nothing gets uploaded anywhere.

Ships three output modes for different consumers: an interactive HTML report (thumbnails, lightbox, keyboard nav) for reviewing in a browser, JSON with a versioned schema for scripts that pipe into jq, and a compact text mode that's easy to feed to an LLM agent. Flagged files move to a local trash folder rather than getting deleted, so originals stay recoverable.

Published through a Homebrew tap so users don't need Python installed; the formula bundles the whole PyTorch stack into a sandboxed venv. Releases run through GitHub Actions, which opens the formula bump PR on the tap repo and admin-merges it.

A Go library for parsing PGN chess notation, written test-first with GitHub Actions CI running on every push.

Published as a versioned, semver-tagged module on pkg.go.dev, the public Go package registry.

A JavaScript plugin for Miro that bulk-generates cards, cutting manual card-creation time by around 90%.

A React + Recoil web app for keeping data organized in tables. Supports drag-and-drop, global search, and full keyboard operation, so the whole app can be driven without a mouse.

Education

B.Tech in Information and Communication Technology
Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, DAIICT, Gandhinagar

July, 2017 - April, 2021

Dual Degree (B.Tech & M.Tech) in Computer Science
Indian Institute of Technology, Madras - IITM, Chennai

July, 2015 - April, 2017

(Dropped out)

Technologies & Skills

    Technologies

  • Javascript
  • TypeScript
  • React
  • React Native
  • Next.js
  • Terraform
  • AWS
  • GitHub Actions
  • Docker
  • GraphQL
  • Apollo
  • HTML5
  • CSS3
  • SCSS
  • Tailwind
  • Node.js
  • Redis
  • PostgreSQL
  • Git
  • Stripe

    Skills

  • Software System Design
  • Accessible Web Development
  • Mobile app development
  • Product UX Design
  • Mobile UX Design
  • Technical writing

Certifications