About

Rahul Godbole is a highly experienced software engineer with over 15 years of experience in networking, systems programming, security, Linux, and real-time systems. He has a proven track record of architecting high-performance, hard real-time, high-throughput, highly parallel, and multithreaded server-side applications in C/C++ on Linux. Rahul has contributed to building load balancers, L7 proxy servers, database connection pools, and server applications that can handle heavy packet loads and do heavy data processing per packet. He is also an expert in cryptography and has extensive knowledge of NodeJS and product development using it. Rahul has an MTech research project titled "Secure and Efficient protocol for Mobile Payments," which led to a publication in ACM at the 10th International Conference on Electronic Commerce in Innsbruck, Austria. He specializes in firewalls, network security, cryptography, C/C++, Linux, system programming, socket programming, real-time systems, high-performance server programming, and multithreading. Currently, Rahul is working as a software engineer at Udaan, where he is responsible for the development, architecture, and enhancement of Udaan's platform to solve the next level of challenges. Previously, he worked as a Staff Engineer and Senior Principal Software Engineer at PubMatic, where he worked on serving targeted ads at massive scale with heavy data processing and minimum latency. He also worked on a leading high-performance ad server, where he processed ad requests at massive scale to show relevant ads. Overall, Rahul has relevant experience of 15.87 years in the field of software engineering, making him a highly skilled and experienced professional. He is always eager to learn and grow in his field, and his passion for coding and problem-solving is evident in his work.