About

Rahul Kumar is a highly skilled Software Developer Engineer 3 at Ola (ANI Technologies Pvt. Ltd). With over 4 years of relevant experience, he has a sound background in Data Structures and Algorithm, Distributed System Design, Java, Scala, C++, Flink, and more. Currently working as an SDE 2 at Ola, Rahul has previously worked as an SDE 1 at the same company. In his previous role, he worked on the Location Service Platform, which provides services to other teams for better customer experience. He used a range of technologies such as Java, Scala, Vertx, Play Framework, Redis, Cassandra, ScyllaDB, Kafka, and Event Driven/ Async Architectures. Rahul has also worked on real-time streaming jobs, which helped to provide real-time demand and supply in specific geographical regions, increasing revenue. For this project, he used Flink, Scala, Kafka, and S3. Additionally, he worked on Location-Based Services, which worked as a wrapper over calling Google API's to fetch map level information, serving downstream services to establish successful bookings using Java, Scala, Redis, and Kafka. Rahul has also worked on Autocomplete API, which served as a search engine for the customer app using Elasticsearch, Scala, Vertx, and Postgres. In another project, he worked on a real-time streaming job, which helped drivers to see the hotspot areas where they have higher chances of getting bookings, using Flink, Kafka, Scala, and Redis. Finally, he worked on customer experience projects, which helped end-users to see drop and pickup suggestions based on their historical ride history, enhancing the platform experience using Vertx, Scala, and Scylla. Rahul completed his Bachelor of Technology in Electronics and Communications Engineering from the National Institute of Technology Jamshedpur in 2019. He is proficient in a range of technologies, including Scala, Java, Kafka, Redis, Cassandra, Spark, Elastic Search, Search, Postgres, and Mobile. Rahul is a highly dedicated and skilled software engineer, with a proven track record of delivering high-quality projects within strict timelines.