# Jay Bhagat > Software Engineer Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/jaybhagat ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Mercury Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area ### Software Engineer Intern @ Mercury Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area ### Software Engineer Intern @ Newfront Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area • Built new API routes with Nest.js (Typscript) using controllers, modules, and providers to add new efficient features and TypeORM entities to the large microservice network at Newfront. • Added new features to Newfront’s in-house DSL (domain specific language) schemas to dynamically and recursively build components for 50+ (and increasing) data models. • Created a tRPC router acting as a BFF layer with server-less functions as mutations and queries to ensure seamless user interaction with type-safe API calls for a Next.js app. Shipped with Vercel. • Independently built the backend and frontend for a feature that had extensive reach throughout the entire company with collaborative efforts from design and product. Applied many different React design patterns. ### Software Developer @ UW Blueprint Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Waterloo, Ontario, Canada Tech for social good. Built by students. Blueprint is a student-run organization that creates technological solutions for nonprofit organizations. HeadsUpGuys ### Full Stack Developer @ Questrade Financial Group Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Toronto, Ontario, Canada • Implemented reusable and animated React Native components/user flows, improving code modularity for a mobile application (with 100,000+ users). • Utilized Redux to store back-end responses and declutter state management, increasing efficiency by 212%. • Created API routes in a .NET Core backend for new requests, and modifying an event-based API using GCP’s PubSub. • Took initiative to independently design and build an entire end-to-end feature that was essential to launch. ### Open Source Software Developer @ BlackBerry Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Waterloo, Ontario, Canada • Developed multiple scripts using Python to automate team tasks with the Requests, Regex, and Pandas libraries to process & filter data and create spreadsheets to report data. • Created Gradle and Maven plugins using Java, for the builds of all BlackBerry products that approximately doubles efficiency by automatically transferring build information to analysts, with visibility from C-level executives. • Produced internal Bash scripts to improve the existing CI/CD strategy for different programming environments, aiding to analyze open-source software compliance. • Implemented asynchronous functions to make calls to a REST API, decreasing script run-time by a factor of 2.03. ### Software Developer @ University of Waterloo (Cynorix Inc.) Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Waterloo, Ontario, Canada • Independently created a storage server using Javascript on MongoDB, to safeguard user passwords, and making changes to use it on a Windows client, coded in C# (Cynorix Password Guardian). • Built a Google Drive application which allows users to securely share encrypted files with other users without revealing the encryption key using Javascript, Firebase, Google Drive API. (Secure File Sharing) • Successfully used the Emscripten libraries to compile C++ code to WebAssembly that runs on Javascript 4x faster. • Created a secure messaging application between two users on Javascript to use a state-of-the-art key generation algorithm. ### Camp Counselor @ City of Brampton Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Brampton, Canada - Supervising and monitoring up to 60 participants (3-13 year olds) with a team of other counsellors - Designing different crafts for participants to keep them engaged and enhance their motor skills - For toddlers, led multiple exercises to develop their writing and numerical skills, along with their common sense - Integrating participants with disabilities together with the rest of the camp to make them feel included ## Education ### Bachelor's of Computer Science in Honours, Computer Software Engineering University of Waterloo ### Turner Fenton Secondary School ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jay-bhagat-575117194 - Portfolio: https://jaybhagat.github.io --- Source: https://flows.cv/jaybhagat JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/jaybhagat/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-29