Vikram Malhotra
Full Stack Engineer with 5+ years of experience designing and shipping resilient cloud-native architectures, high-throughput microservices, and interactive web applications. Deep expertise across TypeScript, Go, React, and Kubernetes, with a proven track record of optimizing distributed workflows and scaling systems to millions of active users.
- Architected and scaled a distributed telemetry and control plane processing 1.2M+ events/sec, cutting end-to-end data ingestion latency by 45% using Go, Apache Kafka, and optimized ClickHouse columnar storage.
- Engineered a high-performance interactive monitoring console in React, TypeScript, and WebGL, reducing initial dashboard load time by 58% across enterprise customer deployments.
- Orchestrated zero-downtime infrastructure migrations across multi-region Kubernetes clusters using Terraform and ArgoCD, maintaining 99.99% system availability throughout peak traffic events.
- Developed core billing, usage metering, and payment automation microservices processing $24M+ in annual transaction volume with Stripe and automated reconciliation workflows.
- Constructed real-time collaboration canvas with CRDT synchronization and WebSockets, facilitating seamless multi-cursor editing for 12,000+ simultaneous organization workspaces.
- Spearheaded engineering transition from monolithic API to modular GraphQL federated services, accelerating feature delivery cycles across 4 distributed product teams.
- Constructed an open-source real-time event ingestion gateway capable of handling 50,000+ incoming HTTP/WebSocket webhook events per second with sub-10ms buffer latencies.
- Integrated distributed caching and backpressure management with Redis and Kafka consumer groups, preventing service degradation under sudden 10x traffic surges.
- Implemented an administrative web analytics UI with Next.js, WebGL charts, and live SSE streaming to monitor throughput, error rates, and cluster health metrics.
- Authored and published "Building Resilient Event-Driven Microservices" technical guide featured on Hacker News front page, accumulating 1,400+ stars on GitHub.
- Earned Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) and AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional certifications.
- GPA: 3.84 / 4.0 · Magna Cum Laude
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Featured Skills: Java, Python, or C++ · JavaScript or TypeScript · Go, C#, or Kotlin · Backend Application Development · Frontend Application Development