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Yash Kamothi

Yash Kamothi

San Francisco,CA

Summary

Empathetic and experienced leader with strong IC background working at high output organizations. Knows how to build 0 to 1 products, and also scale them appropriately for the business.

Interests

Traveling

Coffee

Watches

Peloton

Video Games

Reading

Timeline

Staff Software Engineer

Sidecar Health
10.2025 - Current

Tech Lead

Carta
09.2024 - 09.2025

Senior Software Engineer

Carta
06.2021 - 09.2024

Senior Software Engineer

Thrive Market
05.2020 - 06.2021

Senior Software Engineer

Aspiration
06.2019 - 12.2019

Software Engineer

Avenda Health
06.2018 - 06.2019

Software Engineer

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems
07.2017 - 07.2018

Bachelor's of Science - Computer Engineering

University of California, Riverside

Work History

Staff Software Engineer

Sidecar Health
10.2025 - Current
  • Own and develop the provider domain across the organization, working closely with stakeholders and strategic clients.
  • Leverage Python, NextJS, and AWS to create a platform that is generating $5M ARR for the business.

Tech Lead

Carta
09.2024 - 09.2025
  • Owned and lead the Capital Activity domain and product within the Fund Administration business.
  • Coordinate across the organization for new projects and lead team to success through planning, review and mentorship.

Senior Software Engineer

Carta
06.2021 - 09.2024
  • Leveraged Python, gRPC, and Kafka to create a public facing API platform that is regularly used by strategic partners like Stripe, Compound, Cooley, etc and has 99% up-time and sub 1% errors.
  • Created features and automations for Capital Activities and related products within the Fund Admin business that safely and successfully moves ~$150M every year.
  • Minimized execution time for a frequently utilized endpoint and logic related to share class conversion. Reduced the average time from 10-30 seconds to consistently under 1 second.

Senior Software Engineer

Thrive Market
05.2020 - 06.2021
  • Leverage Go and AWS to create efficient micro-services and distributed systems. Scaled the core ordering platform to support 5 million concurrent users.
  • Addressed memory leaks in pipelines, leading to an 80% reduction in Redis cache size from 10GB to 2GB.
  • Optimized Kafka message size and error rate by 50% through streamlined data handling.

Senior Software Engineer

Aspiration
06.2019 - 12.2019

Leverage Go and AWS to create microservices within a distributed systems environment to automate features for the banking domain.

Software Engineer

Avenda Health
06.2018 - 06.2019

First engineer at the company that implemented the core system for an FDA-approved medical device for treating prostate cancer, utilizing Go, React, RabbitMQ and AWS.

Software Engineer

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems
07.2017 - 07.2018

Use C++ and C to contribute to services for autonomous flight processes.

Skills

  • Team Leadership
  • Communication and Collaboration
  • Software Architecture Design
  • Product Development
  • Backend Development
  • Mentorship

Education

Bachelor's of Science - Computer Engineering

University of California, Riverside
Riverside, CA
03-2017
Yash Kamothi