About

Rahul Kumar is a highly skilled software developer with over 6 years of experience in building scalable products from scratch. He is an expert in backend development and has experience in all phases of product development, including frontend, DevOps, and management. Rahul graduated from NIT Rourkela and is currently a Member of Technical Staff III at VMware, where he is automating code deployment with zero downtime by creating Event Driven, distributed upgrade service using CDC and Kafka Streams. Rahul has a diverse skill set, including system design, microservices, design patterns, Kafka, GoLang, Node js, Python, React, Redux, NextJS, GraphQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Neo4j, Elastic Search, Redis, AWS, Ali cloud, CI/CD, algorithm, and data structure. He has worked with various companies, including AttainU, where he built products from end to end and solved problems related to plagiarism, curriculum, lead generation, and day-to-day activities of sales, teaching, placement, and marketing teams. In his previous role at YouPlus, Rahul was a Software Development Engineer and played a crucial role in designing and re-architecting Vision, a neural network machine-learning product that interprets and delivers consumer insights from video. He decreased processing time for crawled video through AI pipeline from 10 minutes to less than a minute by decoupling the system using RabbitMQ and reduced response time from 400 ms to less than 100 ms by refactoring existing APIs for Vichar(an app which gets public opinions for products) to use shard key in MongoDB query. Rahul's educational background includes a Bachelor of Technology (BTech) from NIT Rourkela and a 10th grade degree from Saint Karen's High School. Rahul's technical expertise includes software engineering, NodeJS, AWS, Kafka, MongoDB, Python, Javascript, DevOps, Redis, Backend, Elastic Search, Redux, Neo4j, Search, CI/CD, AI, Microservices, Frontend, test, RabbitMQ, Jenkins, Docker, Neural Networks, MySQL, Web, and Terraform. With 7.45 years of relevant experience, Rahul is a highly skilled and experienced software developer who can add value to any organization.