About

Rakesh Kumar T is a Software Engineer 2 at Intuit with over a year of experience in designing, developing, and maintaining distributed software applications. He is an expert in building REST APIs, data modelling, DevOps, and backend development. Rakesh has a strong understanding of data structures, algorithms, scalability, microservices, Java, Python, Redis, Docker, Amazon Web Services, Jenkins, Jmeter, Grafana, InfluxDB, REST APIs, GRPC, and design. He is also an open-source contributor and has developed an open-source Python package called IP-Model. Rakesh is a learner forever and constantly seeks to expand his knowledge and skills. He has a personal portfolio at rakesht2499.github.io. Currently, he is working on Quickbooks Online payroll at Intuit, where he is providing a seamless payroll experience to customers. Previously, Rakesh worked as a Software Engineer 2 at Bewakoof, where he completely owned the end-to-end development of the marketplace service, including high and low-level design. He developed APIs for order management, integrating with a 3PP courier partner for manifestations and tracking updates. He also worked on chatbot APIs, allowing users to log in via OTP and cancel orders from the chatbot. Additionally, he worked on a courier service that gave the logistics team the flexibility to select different courier partners for every seller. Before Bewakoof, Rakesh worked as a Software Engineer - Backend at Freshworks, where he worked with the API Gateway team on building services that provide rate-limiting, throttling, and more. He has experience working with Java Restful framework, Python, gRPC protocol, Docker, Jenkins, Redis, Terraform, and AWS. Rakesh completed his Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from D.G. Vaishnav College in 2019 and his 11th and 12th in Mathematics and Computer Science from Kendriya Vidyalaya Gill Nagar in 2016. His relevant experience is 4.11 years, and he has a strong tech stack in software engineering, backend development, Python, Redis, Docker, Jenkins, microservices, DevOps, web development, Java, AWS, Terraform, OpenCV, mobile, and UI.