Yash Rathi

Washington, D.C. · (564) 218-1126 · yashr@vt.edu

Budding Full-Stack Software Developer with 2+ years of experience and passion for building scalable software solutions. Adept at leveraging various programming languages and tools to deliver exceptional results. Actively seeking fulltime roles.

Skills

Programming Languages
  • Java, Python, JavaScript, Rust, HTML, CSS

Libraries and Frameworks
  • SpringBoot, Spring REST, JPA, React, Redux, WebSocket, Tailwind, FastAPI

Cloud Platforms
  • AWS (Lambda, S3, EC2, ECR, CloudWatch), Azure (VM, Blob Storage)

Tools
  • Docker, GitHub Actions, Git, Jira, VSCode, IntelliJ, VisualVM, JMC

Certifications

Experience

CCI xG Testbed Intern

Commonwealth Cyber Initiative, Virginia Tech - Arlington, Virginia
Aug. 2024 - Dec. 2024
  • Researched and adapted quickly to emerging O-RAN O-Cloud standards and API models; implemented production-grade FastAPI interface. Presented technical updates and implementation to team and stakeholders.
Aug. 2024 - Dec. 2024

Digital Specialist Engineer

Infosys Limited - Pune, India
Oct. 2021 - July 2023
  • Designed and deployed microservices using Java 11 + Spring Boot, each exposing REST APIs with JPA-based persistence. Services managed user session logs, task queue status, and system alerts, and were routed via Spring Cloud Gateway with auto-registration through Eureka Discovery.
  • Containerized all services with Docker and orchestrated them using docker-compose for local integration testing, latency simulation, and failure scenarios; reduced new developer onboarding time by ~50%.
  • Rewrote and maintained a real-time dashboard in React + WebSocket using functional components and modern JS patterns; for monitoring 6+ ML job queues. Replaced polling with event-driven updates, detecting job failures in under 5 seconds and improving UI responsiveness by ~25% under load.
  • Built a Rust + WebAssembly module for browser-side string sanitization and transformation for client NLP use-case. Compiled via wasm-pack and consumed in a React frontend using wasm-bindgen, reducing processing latency by 40% for large input fields.
  • Developed a Rust + JNI helper module for fast filename normalization (removing invalid Unicode and special characters). Integrated the compiled library into Spring Boot via System.loadLibrary() and exposed it as a REST endpoint. Achieved ~3× performance improvement compared to the original Java implementation.
Oct. 2021 - July 2023

Programmer Analyst Trainee

Cognizant - Bangalore, India
Jan. 2021 - Oct. 2021
  • Optimized rendering of large React tables (>5K rows) using memo and debounced filters. Analyzed performance via Chrome and Firefox DevTools, cutting time-to-interactive from 4.2s to 1.1s and reducing memory usage by 40%.
  • Resolved heap overflow errors in a long-lived notification service by profiling with VisualVM and Java Mission Control. Identified ~180MB retained by expired session objects; applied an LRU eviction strategy, reducing heap usage by 30%.
Jan. 2021 - Oct. 2021

Projects

Graduate Capstone Project: L.E.A.R.N

Java React Spring Boot OpenAI API AWS

Built an AI-enhanced learning platform with Spring Boot as the backend orchestrator and React + Redux on frontend for lesson planning and WebSockets for real-time lesson synchronization.

OS Course Project: System Stats Monitor

Rust Tauri Cargo

Built a modern, memory-safe system monitor in Rust using Tauri, delivering low-latency real-time updates with under 15MB RAM usage, enabling reliable performance on resource-constrained systems.

Education

Virginia Tech

Master's Degree
08/2023 - 05/2025

Computer Science

08/2023 - 05/2025

Pune University

Bachelor's Degree
08/2015 - 04/2020

Computer Engineering

08/2015 - 04/2020

Interests

When I am not developing or learning, I enjoy hiking and exploring nature trails around Northern Virginia. I am also passionate about video games, especially strategy and story-driven titles, which are backbone of my problem-solving and creativity skills. I am also avid reader of both fiction and non-fiction, with a strong interest in literature classics, and history.