About

Riju Ghosh is a highly skilled software engineer with over 4 years of experience in building and maintaining highly scalable, available, and resilient distributed systems. He is currently working as a Software Engineer III at Google, where he is responsible for backend engineering and GCP security and privacy compliance. Prior to his current role, Riju worked as a Software Engineer 3 at PayPal, where he led the I&T Business mandates team and was responsible for overall delivery. He worked closely with all stakeholders, including team members, engineers, leadership, product managers, owners, and architects, ensuring timely and accurate delivery. He also worked on a Store and Forward system using Spring Boot, ActiveMQ, and Juno, reducing advice transaction failures by ~98%. Additionally, he worked on elastic scaling settlements batch, reducing run time substantially by decoupling record processing from the batch. He developed a processing daemon using Spring, Kafka, RxJava & Async HTTP. Riju also worked as a Software Engineer 2 at PayPal, where he built multiple dashboards for monitoring processing/settlement components using Kibana and Tableau. He built a Slack bot to help triage settlement exceptions, reducing support engineer’s efforts by 2 man-hours per day. He also developed a framework for automated LnP testing of (ISO 8583) TCP connectors and a custom JMeter plugin for ISO 8583, supporting sign-on/network messages. He integrated it with TestNG, which was used in Release CI pipeline to compare LnP capability of a new build with a baseline for multiple MTIs and product flows. Riju holds a Master of Engineering (M.E.) degree in Computer Science from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, and a Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Guru Nanak Institute of Technology, Kolkata. He is proficient in several technologies, including Software Engineering, Backend, Spring, Kafka, Spring Boot, and test. With 6.61 years of relevant experience, Riju is a highly skilled software engineer who is passionate about building and maintaining highly scalable, available, and resilient distributed systems.