Kartik Bajaj, Developer in Vancouver, BC, Canada
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Kartik Bajaj

Bio

Kartik is a seasoned engineering leader with a strong technical foundation and experience across high-growth startups and established tech companies. In his most recent position as Co-founder and VP of Engineering at WonderFi, he was responsible for driving product engineering and development strategy and scaling engineering operations to support the company’s ambitions in the fintech and Web3 space.

Portfolio

WonderFi Technologies Inc
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Blockchain, Continuous Deployment, Databases...
Salesforce
Java, Continuous Deployment
Galaxy Digital
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Blockchain, Continuous Deployment, Computer Science...

Experience

  • JavaScript - 7 years
  • Node.js - 5 years
  • React - 4 years
  • Go - 4 years
  • Social APIs - 4 years
  • Web3.js - 3 years
  • Blockchain - 3 years
  • Shopify - 3 years

Preferred Environment

Node.js, Blockchain, Solidity, Go, React, React Native, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Back-end, Expo

The most amazing...

...work I've done is co-founding and leading the engineering for Canada's largest publicly traded cryptocurrency exchange.

Work Experience

Co-founder and VP of Engineering

2021 - 2025
WonderFi Technologies Inc
  • Led engineering through multiple acquisitions, integrating Coinberry, Bitbuy, CoinSmart, and Blockchain Foundry platforms with minimal downtime and seamless user migrations.
  • Built and scaled WonderFi Labs, driving Web3 innovation with new blockchain and wallet products while maintaining engineering velocity during major mergers.
  • Consolidated platforms post-merger, streamlining infrastructure, unifying product pipelines, and achieving significant cost savings across engineering operations.
  • Scaled engineering team and processes, growing from startup mode to supporting a public company while ensuring delivery of secure, compliant fintech products.
  • Strengthened platform reliability, leading upgrades to cloud infrastructure and DevOps practices that improved uptime, security, and scalability during rapid growth.
Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Blockchain, Continuous Deployment, Databases, Decentralized Finance (DeFi)

Lead Technical Staff Member

2019 - 2021
Salesforce
  • Built a multi-cloud CI/CD infrastructure that automated deployments across 20,000+ AWS and GCP VMs daily, ensuring high availability and rapid feature delivery.
  • Decomposed monolithic systems into microservices, improving scalability, fault isolation, and deployment velocity for critical internal engineering workflows.
  • Transitioned infrastructure from legacy servers to Kubernetes, standardizing environments, reducing downtime, and enabling elastic scaling across clouds.
Technologies: Java, Continuous Deployment

Director of Engineering

2018 - 2019
Galaxy Digital
  • Engineered and launched ICO platforms that enabled blockchain startups to securely raise over $50 million in ETH through token sales.
  • Designed and wrote Ethereum smart contracts, ensuring secure, audited code for large-scale fundraising and investor trust.
  • Built and led the early engineering team, delivering scalable blockchain infrastructure and tools that supported multiple high-profile ICOs.
Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Blockchain, Continuous Deployment, Computer Science, Back-end, Front-end, React

Senior Software Developer

2015 - 2018
Hootsuite
  • Transitioned a monolithic front-end application into multiple smaller React apps.
  • Built a CI/CD release pipeline for the React applications.
  • Introduced Go at the company and wrote the first production-level microservice.
Technologies: React, PHP

Experience

NFT Marketplace

Helped design and architect the marketplace smart contracts, as well as the back end required to monitor blockchain transactions and convert the relevant on-chain data into a database format. Built multiple smart contracts that provide marketplace functionality, such as auctions and peer-to-peer sales.

Game Tracker

Helped design the front end components in React as well as the back end in Go. Worked alongside multiple engineers in the team to deliver day-to-day tasks. Helped design the microservices framework that is currently actively deployed in production.

Personality-based NFTs

https://www.personalitynft.com
Built smart contracts required to generate NFTs as per the business logic and built frameworks that supported rendering interactive NFTs using Three.js. Built the back end required to support various use cases in the application.

Mediflix

https://www.mediflix.com/
Helped build the frameworks required to support user authentication using AWS Cognito, allowing users to sign in to the web application and communicate with multiple microservices behind the scenes. Also helped build multiple React components required for the web app to operate smoothly.

Smart Contract and Discord Bot Development

https://lore.xyz/
I collaborated with the founding team to build early proof-of-concepts, including Discord platform integrations, Ethereum smart contracts, and MPC wallet prototypes. I delivered rapid iterations that validated technical feasibility and shaped product direction for Lore’s early roadmap.

Education

2013 - 2014

Master's Degree in Computer Science

University of British Columbia - Vancouver, BC, Canada

2008 - 2012

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

Vellore Institute of Technology - Vellore, India

Skills

Libraries/APIs

Node.js, React, Social APIs, Web3.js

Tools

Slack, Expo

Languages

Solidity, JavaScript, Go, TypeScript, Java, PHP, GraphQL, HTML, CSS

Platforms

Shopify, Blockchain, Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Paradigms

Continuous Deployment, Responsive Web Design (RWD)

Frameworks

React Native

Storage

MySQL, Databases

Other

Artificial Intelligence (AI), Computer Science, Decentralized Finance (DeFi), Machine Learning, ERC-721, Back-end, Smart Contracts, Ethereum Smart Contracts, Non-fungible Tokens (NFT), Front-end, Discord Bots, Discord

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