About

Rakesh Ranjan is a skilled Software Development Engineer I at Flipkart, where he is part of the Cloud Platform team and responsible for building security and compliance solutions for the company. He has strong experience in working with distributed systems at scale in the Security Engineering team and is proficient in C++ and Java. Rakesh has been involved in several development projects, including the development of a Change Management System responsible for auditing builds and deployments across FCP to achieve SOX compliance. He used Java and Dropwizard to build the backend service. Additionally, he developed a PIM/PAM Database Credential service for Redis and integrated Hashicorp Vault using Java and Spring Boot to generate credentials and provide Role-Based Access Control (RBAC). The service was developed to have a custom expiry time of credentials based on Role type and takes advantage of ACL’s introduced in Redis 6, which enables development of RBAC. Before joining Flipkart, Rakesh worked as a Software Engineer at Gainsight, where he was involved in the development of the Gainsight mobile app. He used React-Native and Redux for the development of the cross-platform mobile app and was involved in end-to-end development of multiple complex features. Rakesh holds a Bachelor's degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, and completed his secondary education from Jawahar Vidya Mandir, Shyamali Ranchi. He has relevant experience of 3.87 years and is skilled in Java, Backend, Redis, Spring, Spring Boot, Mobile, Redux, NLP, MongoDB, Sentiment Analysis, React Native, MySQL, and Web.