About

Rajeev Singh is a Senior Engineering Manager at Gojek with over 8 years of experience in leading high-performing cross-functional teams and building intelligent and scalable applications at multiple fast-growing unicorn startups. He is a full-stack developer who loves distributed systems and the challenges associated with them. Rajeev is also a writer, teacher, and mentor to other engineers. Rajeev's programming blog, which covers various topics related to software engineering, receives more than 300k views per month. He has also published several open-source projects on his Github account, which have collectively garnered more than 6k stars. Additionally, he has created several online tools that are used by thousands of developers worldwide, including JSON Formatter, URL Encoder, URL Decoder, Base64 Encoder, Base64 Decoder, and ASCII Table. Currently, Rajeev is leading the Transport Next vertical at Gojek, which consists of four cross-functional teams with 25 engineers across Backend, Mobile, and Web. His primary responsibilities include looking after the planning, technical architecture, and delivery of projects in the vertical, mentoring managers and principal engineers, OKR planning, collaborating with product and business folks to convert business requirements into concrete stories, and hiring, engaging, and retaining top talent. In the past, Rajeev has led multiple cross-functional squads consisting of 10+ engineers across Backend, Web, QA, and DevOps in Gojek's Transport team. He also led a team of 6 full-stack engineers in the Supplytech squad of the Ops Platform team in Gojek, where he built a Lead Management System and Blueprint, a cross-platform library that renders a form on mobile or web from JSON configuration. Rajeev holds a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science from West Bengal University of Technology. He also has experience in Kubernetes, DevOps, infra, integration, SRE, iOS, microservices, Clojure, Ruby, Android, and more. With 8.62 years of relevant experience, Rajeev is a highly skilled and experienced engineering manager and full-stack developer.