# Arham K.

> Software Engineer @ Halliday | CS Honors, Business Honors @ UT Austin

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/arham

I love applying software engineering skills to improve lives, whether it be through industry work, personal projects, or organizational involvement. My primary interests are backend systems and machine learning, but I'm always willing to pick up a new skill if a problem requires it.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Halliday
Jan 2023 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States

### Software Engineer Intern @ Salesforce
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco, California, United States
- Spearheaded onboarding automation for Einstein Hawking team’s AI hosting platform
- Coordinated across 3 teams to understand pipeline needs and security requirements of ML applications
- Architected API design to host Hawking Applications dynamically and reduce onboarding time from 2 weeks to 3 days
- Developed unified workflow with Python and Java to deploy new applications across 5 feature packages

### Software Engineer Intern @ Optiver
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Austin, Texas, United States
- Expedited rule generation for Delta One team’s automated option trading system
- Redesigned price-based rule generator with C++ and Python to avoid redundant ML model evaluations for 2x speedup
- Devised C++ algorithm to cover 60% more relevant target points during rule generation
- Expanded metrics and test coverage with C++ for 3 code suites

### Software Development Engineer Intern @ Amazon
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Seattle, Washington, United States
- Improved process graphs emitted from digital item ordering API to expedite request tracking for clients and engineers
- Coordinated across 2 teams to understand user needs, approve design proposal, and deploy API changes across 5 packages
- Coded inter-process graphical linkage with Java and Kotlin to save 700 hours per year of tracking sequential process graphs
- Onboarded new service to graph tool with Java and Kotlin to save 80 hours per year of reading raw data logs 
- Compiled metrics dashboard and employed 2-day canary release to address latency risk of emitting new graph events
- Leveraged Guice for utility dependency injections and Mockito for unit testing

### Software Engineer Intern @ Bentley Systems
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021
- Enhanced Design Insights team front-end to enable 10x speedup with feature integrations
- Migrated 2 client-facing Angular webpages to TypeScript + React + Redux to improve compatibility with company codebase
- Transformed each page’s global initialization workflow into 5+ encapsulated processes
- Leveraged Redux-Saga to optimize asynchronous API requests
- Coded unit tests in Jest and deployed changes to Azure DevOps pipeline

### Software Engineer Intern @ Trashbots
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Austin, Texas, United States
- Implemented 5 novel features for coding interface and programmable robot used by 2000+ customers
- Solved #1 customer complaint of robot veering by creating Node.js overlay and C++ algorithm to calibrate motors in 15 seconds
- Programmed Node.js redirect page with deep link to improve UI experience for 1300+ mobile users
- Introduced versioning structure with Node.js and C++ to ensure website and robot compatibility across 3 product updates

### Research Fellow @ Smart Electronic Systems Laboratory
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019
- Architected Smart-Log, a stress-eating detection system which had 97% accuracy with ~1000 inputs
- Built vision program with Python, OpenCV, and Azure classification API to detect user nutrition and emotion
- Developed iOS application with Swift + XCode and connected it to vision program using Firebase Realtime Database 
- 2nd-authored an IEEE publication that was presented to 1000+ attendees at the 2019 International ICCE Conference


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS | Bachelor of Business Administration - BBA in Computer Science Honors | Business Honors
The University of Texas at Austin
Jan 2019 – Jan 2023

### High School Diploma in Computer Science
Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019

### High School Diploma
Coppell High School
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/arham-kothari

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Last updated: 2026-03-20