Vikram Malhotra

Frontend Engineer at American Express · Web frontends · Next.js, React

American Express

San Jose, CA · PT (UTC-8)

1+ years experience

Purdue University

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Currently at American Express, where I work on web frontends. Built the experimentation framework 33 product teams use to ship changes safely. Most at home with web performance and Next.js. I volunteer with a food bank on weekends.

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web performanceReactGraphQLNext.js

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Learning Next.js - want a mentor for monthly reviews

Goal: Get good enough at Next.js to own it at work.
Where I am now: Some experience
Ideal mentor: Someone who has worked in web frontends for a few years
Cadence: Monthly
What I can offer back: Research and write-ups

1 years in so far. Looking for honest feedback, once or twice a month.

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Frontend Engineer
Oct 2025 - Present
American Express · 1 yr · Full-time · San Jose, CA
- Moved 93% of web traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
- Shipped 16 launches on the web team without a rollback.
- Wrote the web performance service that now handles 26 million requests a day.

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Education

Purdue University
BS, Computer Engineering
2020 - 2024

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