# Bharat Arimilli > Senior Software Engineer at Pasito Location: Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/bharatarimilli Product-driven Senior Software Engineer with 6 years of experience building and scaling full-stack applications at early-stage startups. Proven track record of owning critical product features end-to-end, leading major architectural overhauls, and integrating cutting-edge technologies like generative AI. Passionate about building experiences that customers love to use, driving technical best practices, and shaping engineering culture from the ground up. ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ Pasito Jan 2024 – Present • Spearheaded a major rewrite of the employee benefit recommendations engine, expanding supported plan types tenfold and significantly growing the product's addressable market. • Designed and implemented generative AI features powered by Anthropic Claude, including RAG infrastructure to ensure accurate and context-aware outputs. • Championed ADA compliance, leading to a more accessible and user-friendly product experience for all users. ### Software Engineer @ Pasito Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 • Joined as an early engineering hire at a YC S22 startup, helping shape the company, product and engineering culture from the ground up. • Built core product features using TypeScript, React, and Node, and contributed to roadmap planning and cross-functional decision-making. ### Software Engineer @ Dover Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | New York, New York, United States • Built high-value customer-facing and backend functionality across the stack at a Series A startup (YC S19) using TypeScript, React, and Django. • Rebuilt Python data ingestion pipelines to add redundancy against vendor outages and reduce costs by using heuristics to determine the most cost-effective data retrieval methods. • Built and maintained third-party integrations with Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS), email integration APIs, scheduling APIs and Slack, providing customers with a seamless experience with their existing tools and broadening the product's potential customer base. ### Software Engineer @ Rethink Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Los Angeles Metropolitan Area • Responsible for foundational work on an early-stage startup product known as Rethink Files as an early engineering hire (only full-time engineer besides the CEO at the time) • Worked end-to-end across all aspects of the product (frontend, backend, DevOps, cloud infrastructure) to build, deploy and orchestrate our product • Worked with CEO (and later CTO) to help architect, define product roadmap and build a complete rewrite of Rethink Files based on a new extensible architecture purpose-built for third-party integrations and third-party apps • Architected cloud infrastructure on AWS and Azure with Kubernetes and Terraform • Worked in full-stack JavaScript with Node.js and React along with our own in-house frontend libraries ### Director of ACM Labs @ ACM UT Dallas Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Richardson, TX Founding Director of ACM Labs, an in-house software engineering division of the Association for Computing Machinery at UT Dallas that develops software for the benefit of the UT Dallas community and beyond. ### Vice President @ ACM UT Dallas Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Richardson, TX Leading UTD's largest computer science organization and overseeing its operations across five divisions, over 30 officers and thousands of members. ### Director of ACM Labs @ ACM UT Dallas Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Richardson, TX Founding Director of ACM Labs, a in-house software engineering division of the Association for Computing Machinery at UT Dallas that develops software for the benefit of the UT Dallas community and beyond. ### Web Editor @ The Mercury UTD Jan 2015 – Jan 2019 | Richardson, TX • In charge of the website (https://www.utdmercury.com), technology, video and social media of UT Dallas's official student newspaper • Led an award-winning turnaround of The Mercury’s social media and web presence, increasing engagement and brand exposure, while giving online readers a more immersive experience • Won an ACP Online Pacemaker at the ACP 2016 Conference in Washington D.C. for these online efforts • Led a new multimedia effort by directing, editing and producing engaging news and entertainment videos ### Technology Analyst Intern @ JPMorgan Chase & Co. Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Plano, Dallas • Worked with Teradata, Oracle, SQL Server, and Hadoop to manage and organize a data warehouse that supports over 10 million users • Created an internal tool to facilitate search in the data ecosystem using Python, SQL, React and Redux, which decreased search times and tracked the lineage of attributes throughout multiple layers of the ecosystem ### Intern @ Orenda Solutions Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Remote Built scalable backend microservices for an enterprise mobile app with Node.js along with mobile app prototypes with React Native and Ionic Framework. ### Technical Coordinator @ HackUTD Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Richardson, TX Led the development of HackUTD's web and mobile experiences along with supporting and designing all other technological needs of the hackathon. ### Experience Co-Coordinator @ HackUTD Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Richardson, TX Planned and designed the attendee experience at the HackUTD hackathon at the University of Texas at Dallas in March 2016. Managed the technological needs of the hackathon including maintaining HackUTD’s website and building a real-time web app to provide information and announcements to attendees. ### Founder and Chief Information Officer @ Swyft Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | Exeter, NH Co-founded Swyft, a student-run logistics business that works with local merchants in the town of Exeter, New Hampshire to deliver products directly to student dorms. I developed and designed Swyft's entire online experience and its branding and promotional materials. ### Web Developer Intern @ Conductix-Wampfler Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Omaha, NE Developed a visual interface to manage the menus of Conductix Wampfler's internal websites using ColdFusion, SQL, Kendo UI and AngularJS. ### Administrative Assistant @ Saudi Aramco Expatriate Schools Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Dhahran, Saudi Arabia Assisted the central district office of the Saudi Aramco Expatriate School system in preparations for the 2013 - 2014 academic school year. ## Education ### Bachelor of Science (BS) in Computer Science The University of Texas at Dallas Jan 2015 – Jan 2019 ### Phillips Exeter Academy Jan 2012 – Jan 2015 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/bharat-arimilli-b34155b8 - Website: https://www.arimilli.io --- Source: https://flows.cv/bharatarimilli JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/bharatarimilli/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22