# Yash Bhalla > Software Engineer Location: United States, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/yashbhalla I'm a back-end focused, collaborative software engineer. I've worked in a variety of industries - pharmaceutical, maritime shipping, and telehealth. I've worked in a variety of stacks - Java/Spring, Python scientific computing, Microsoft C++/C# stack, Java/Kotlin/Dropwizard, AWS/Typescript Serverless and Typescript/Nodejs/React. The constant through this variety has been my curiosity to understand the principles behind the software and use it to inform future development. ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer - Contract @ Salesforce Jan 2024 – Present | Remote Digital Content and Taxonomy Team within Marketing department. The team owns a taxonomy product to catalog all Salesforce content. - Leveraged AWS serverless technologies to build new features and improve efficiency - Extended GraphQL API to match evolving business requirements; built performance tests to catch scaling issues - Updated Typescript build process to modern tools (esBuild) Tech stack: AWS DynamoDB, AWS Appsync, Terraform, Typescript, GraphQL, K6, AWS Lambda ### Software Engineer @ Xealth Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Seattle, Washington, United States Xealth is a health tech startup building a platform to enable health systems to create patient education and engagement experiences. Worked on the Customer Operations team. Accomplishments: - Improve code quality by addressing Sonarcloud flagged bugs and code smells - Early adopter of new internal tools, providing feedback and suggestions for new features. - Update playbooks to use new internal tools test/verify customer inputs that previously weren't testable. - Implement new features for internal tools using React and Nodejs ### SDE 2 @ 98point6 Inc. Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Seattle, Washington, United States 98point6 is a health-tech startup. Worked on the Onboarding and Eligibility back-end team. Accomplishments: - Refactor AWS CDK code to enable company shift from product to platform - Collaborate with other back-end engineers to modify static code analysis (detekt). Developed patterns and standardize on code style for meeting these rules - Perform on-call duties for team owned services and update runbooks as necessary - Implement REST APIs to enable new user onboarding and eligibility workflows Core Technologies Used: AWS CDK, Typescript, Kotlin, AWS Lambda, AWS ECS ### Associate Software Engineer @ Veson Nautical Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Boston, Massachusetts, United States Veson Nautical is a maritime shipping company. Worked on the Financials and Invoices back-end team. Accomplishments: - Ship new invoice creation experience with three other developers - Introduce Googletest unit tests to newly developed back-end services - Increase test coverage of older legacy (non-unit testable) code by writing Selenium tests - Created on-boarding process for new developers on the team - Earned an AWS Developer Certification and helped build an AWS Lambda function to automate keeping/removing test databases needed for reproducing production issues. - Debug performance issues with SQL queries, introduce application layer caching where appropriate - General maintenance and debugging C++ code using Microsoft Visual Studio Core Technologies Used: C++, SQL Server, C#, Microsoft Visual Studio, JavaScript (React.js) ### Teaching Assistant @ Northeastern University Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 Teaching Assistant for CS1800 Discrete Structures, an introductory course on discrete structure math and its application to the fundamentals of computer science - Led weekly office hours to reinforce students' understanding of Discrete Structures - Provided students quick feedback on homework and exams ### Data Scientist Intern @ Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research (NIBR) Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 - Developed a QSAR model to predict chemical assay results of given molecules - Aided in creation of a custom machine learning model using covariances to impute chemical assay data - Utilize Flask to enable easy interactions with machine learning models - Utilize dask to parallelize model training ### IS Beta Engineering Intern @ Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research (NIBR) Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 -Developing applications for Novartis Scientists -Utilize Spring-Hibernate-Java model to customize and internalize open source web service -Utilize Javascript and bootstrap to add customizations to an open source web editor -Gained experience in Jenkins, Bootstrap, Javascript, Spring-Hibernate-Java model ### Teaching Assistant @ Northeastern University Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 Teaching Assistant for CS1800 Discrete Structures, an introductory course on discrete structure math and its application to the fundamentals of computer science - Led weekly office hours to reinforce students' understanding of Discrete Structures - Assisted instructor during weekly recitations - Provided students quick feedback on homework and exams ### Bioinformatics Lab Intern @ Northeastern University Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 - Part of Mitochondrial research lab headed by Dr. Konstantin Khrapko - Automated data cleaning and formatting using Perl scripts saving tens of manual work hours - Rudimentary sequence data analysis using BLAST and Geneious ### Medical Imaging Intern @ PAREXEL Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Billerica, Ma ### Data Management Intern @ Wintergreen Research Inc Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | Lexington, Ma ## Education ### Computer Science and Biology Northeastern University Jan 2016 – Jan 2020 ### Burlington High School Jan 2012 – Jan 2016 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/yash-bhalla - Website: https://bhallay.github.io --- Source: https://flows.cv/yashbhalla JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/yashbhalla/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-29