About

Rajan is a creative engineering leader with over 15 years of experience in the internet industry. He has a passion for building products that consumers use and has gained significant ability to understand technologies in this space and their impact on platforms, markets, and consumers. Rajan has a proven ability to build and scale products and is competent in internet technologies such as microservices, Java, Spring, Spring Boot, Hibernate, Jersey, Maven Apache, Nginx, MySQL, Mongo, Cassandra, Aerospike, Redis, Memcache, Elastic, Logstash, Filebeat, Kafka, Rabbit, PHP5/PHP7, shell script, JavaScript, Node, jQuery, Symfony1.x, Symfony2.x, web services, REST, Git/SVN, Docker, Linux, and Windows. Rajan is an expert in working with high-traffic applications, profiling and improving performance, and scalability. He is also experienced in managing delivery schedules and working with cross-functional teams to achieve on-time project delivery. Rajan is proficient in product innovation, people leadership, CD/CI, web security, agile/program management/JIRA, and design thinking. Currently, Rajan is working as a Software Development Manager at Amazon Web Services (AWS), leading DynamoDB service products and teams. He is responsible for the long-term vision, cross-team prioritization, predictability of deliveries, and operational excellence for his organization, as well as the professional growth of engineering managers and engineers within his organization. Rajan has also worked as an Associate Vice President at Infoedge, leading and managing the complete Recruiters Technology Team, which is a B2B business with a yearly turnover of around 500 crores. He has also worked as a Software Programmer at Etech Online, where he created a billing system in .NET, C#. Rajan holds a B.Tech degree in Computer Science & Engineering from Giani Zail Singh College of Engg & Tech (Govt.) Punjab, a Computer Engineering Diploma from Government Polytechnic, Punjab, and completed his senior secondary education from Punjab State Education Board, Punjab. Rajan's tech stack includes software engineering, AWS, web, Spring, Java, Spring Boot, MySQL, Docker, Cassandra, Kafka, microservices, search, memcache, Redis, JavaScript, PHP, MongoDB, NoSQL, Spark, Kubernetes, Elastic Search, HDFS, New Relic, mobile, backend, Selenium, SQL, Apache Hive, frontend, QA, ML, research scientist