# Arvind Kalathil

> Software Engineer

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

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ EvenUp
Jan 2024 – Present

### Software Engineer @ Blend
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023
• Borrower team – Designed and led initiatives to improve borrower experience on Blend’s flagship mortgage product.
• Led a 3-person team to build a complex feature into legacy code, significantly reducing the time for customers to customize inputs to the mortgage product from 4 weeks to just one day using React and MongoDB.
• Developed a reusable layout component that optimized the creation of new web pages, with widespread adoption across all Blend Mortgage pages

### Software Engineer @ Intuit
Jan 2018 – Jan 2021
•	Delivered 5% increase in annual net subscribers by designing and developing upsell modals
•	Worked cross functionally to enable users to purchase multiple Intuit products simultaneously
•	Developed a new sign up interface with React and Redux for all QuickBooks Online Accountant sign ups
•	Simplified the process of adding new end to end tests in our CI/CD pipeline by refactoring tests using Nightwatch.js
•	Reduced server side errors from 5% to 1% by introducing session timers
•	Developed a scalable payment system that eased the onboarding of new payment processors 
•	Created multiple UI components that stakeholders could customize, reducing time needed for stakeholders to create new sign-up flows from up to 2 weeks to less than 1 day

### Software Engineer Intern @ Intuit
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Mountain View, California
Summer Software Engineering Intern                                                                                                    June 2017 – Sept 2017
Platform and Tools member responsible for creating tools to make the development process smoother and faster.
•	Built a Domain Specific Language using ANTLR to ease the process of extracting data from financial institutions
•	Contributed to a new search service for developers using AWS Elastic Search and SpringBoot
•	Programmed multiple multithreaded crawlers to crawl different data sources and obtain data for the search service 
•	Led the effort to integrate new data sources into the search engine

### Software Engineering Intern @ Intuit
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | San Diego, California
Software Engineer (Part-Time) 	June 2016 – June 2017
Turbotax team member responsible for modernizing infrastructure, enabling faster product development.
•	Saved 6-8 hours per developer and 2-3 weeks development time per product segment by contributing to a source-to-source compiler for the extraction and conversion of legacy TurboTax code to the new TurboTax framework
•	Refactored Github and Perforce integration to streamline development
•	Created infrastructure to let editors and other non-technical audiences more efficiently edit and update the product
•	Created tests and added functionality to a Domain Specific Language for TurboTax 
•	Added protection schemes to protect the tool from extracting broken code
•	Built a debugging tool for the compiler to reduce the amount of time spent debugging
•	Increased the amount of functions the compiler can compile and build

### Software Systems Lead for Triteia CubeSat @ Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (SEDS)- UCSD Branch
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016
Led the team and designed the software to win $30,000 grant from competitive NASA’s CubeQuest competition, comprising of 15 teams from top tier universities and companies. (25+ hrs/wk)
•	Recruited and managed team of 6 student engineers.
o	Led a team of engineers through programming sessions and setting goals & due dates 
o	Created a business team for SEDS to raise money, advertise our club, and acquire sponsorships
o	Created an application and selection process to review hundreds of candidates and staff multiple engineering positions
o	Founded a project named MoonShot α to develop a cubesat for NASA competition
•	Developed key components for the CubeSat including avionics algorithms:
o	Designed interface software between computer and sensors to determine position and orientation
o	Used Arduino to establish connection and a data link with radio signals for CubeSat software
o	Designed algorithms to be able to prioritize functions to create a semi-autonomous CubeSat 
o	Used Xilinx z7000 board to develop software for ground testing


## Education
### Undergraduate in Computer Science
UC San Diego


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/arvind-kal

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Source: https://flows.cv/arvind
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Last updated: 2026-03-20