About

Rahul Agrawal is an experienced Technical Coach, Architect, and Pragmatic Engineer with over 23 years of relevant experience. He is currently serving as a Senior Architect, Coach, and Code Janitor for a healthcare startup. Rahul believes in building simple and easy-to-understand solutions that are easy to test and debug. He is a firm believer that good architecture and design can make complex problems appear simple and obvious. Rahul has gained valuable experience in building healthy teams that are breeding grounds for innovation. He emphasizes the importance of building a strong culture of trust and psychological safety among team members. Rahul has a proven track record in harmonizing engineering processes and driving consistent standards and approaches throughout the team. Rahul is skilled in various technical areas, including Messaging, Integration Architectures, Distributed Computing, and Application Security. He has hands-on experience in Java, J2EE, Unix, Cloud, Reactive Programming, and more. Rahul has also worked with various technologies such as Spark, Hadoop, MongoDB, and AWS. In the past, Rahul has worked with emeter corporation (acquired by Siemens) as a Senior Engineer/Development Manager and with apigee (acquired by Google) as a Senior Development Engineer. He was part of the founding engineering team at the startup Sonoa Systems/Apigee, an infrastructure provider of analytics, management, and governance solutions for cloud services and APIs. Rahul holds a 5-year Integrated M.Tech degree in BioChemical Engineering and BioTechnology from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. He completed his schooling at St. Xavier School, Bokaro Steel City, where he earned his 10th and 10+2 degrees. Rahul's coworkers have identified him as someone who adds value to the team in areas such as Architecture, Design Principles, and Engineering skills. He is also experienced in efficiency and productivity improvements using XP practices such as Pair Programming, Ensemble/Mob Programming, Continuous Refactoring with the safety net of Automated Tests, and TDD. Rahul is committed to delivering continuous value to his clients and helping them achieve their goals.