About

Raunaq Vohra is a skilled software engineer currently working at The Trade Desk, a company that specializes in advertising technology. With over 7 years of experience in the field, Raunaq has worked with some of the most renowned companies, including Spotify, Skyscanner, Goldman Sachs, and CognitiveScale. His primary expertise lies in back-end engineering, but he also has some exposure to data engineering. Raunaq is most comfortable writing Python and Java, but he tries to be language-agnostic and has worked with Scala in a professional capacity. Raunaq is passionate about writing reusable and extendable code and has a keen interest in distributed systems, correctness, and functional programming. He prefers working in tech-first organizations with little to no legacy code, where engineers are first-class citizens, and people are valued as people rather than resources. Currently, Raunaq works as a generalist software engineer in the Connected TV space at The Trade Desk. His work involves customer-facing tooling, low-latency backend engineering, and big data ETL pipelines. His tech stack includes C# (.NET), React, Scala (Spark), and AWS. In his past roles, Raunaq has worked on building content review products, real-time reactive CSAM detection and restriction systems, and regulatory platforms to detect and handle copyright infringement in podcasts based on audio fingerprinting. He has also built a personalized full-screen video discovery feature to serve millions of users and worked on an editorial video transcoding and serving platform. His tech stack included Java, Scala, and GCP. Raunaq holds a Master’s Degree in Mathematics and a Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology and Science. In his spare time, he enjoys reading, music, and video games. Raunaq is a highly skilled software engineer with a passion for building quality software and working in tech-first organizations.