About

Sai Rahul is a highly skilled Backend Developer with 4 years of experience in building products from scratch and scaling them. He has mostly worked in seed startups, where he played a crucial role in bringing ideas to life and making them successful. Currently, he is working as a Back End Developer at wakao, where he was the first employee of the company. He built a video conversion pipeline using AWS mediaconvert, Eventbridge, Lambda, and implemented user management and auth using JWT. He also designed and implemented actions like likes, follows, votes, reports using SQS, and speeded up many APIs using caching using redis and dynamoDB. He utilized Golang, Django, AWS mediaconvert, dynamodb, elasticache, eventbridge, lambda, beanstalk, codebuild, ECR, RDS, Cloudfront, SQS to complete his tasks. In the past, Sai has worked as a Back End Developer at wysh and gifskey. He designed and developed REST backend, database, and cloud from scratch at wysh. He also integrated payment services like Razorpay, PayTM, Stripe, Paypal, and implemented social features like follows, shares, likes, comments. At gifskey, he migrated the backend from PHP to Golang and increased server capacity from 500 req/sec to 2500 req/sec with the same resources using Golang, changes in the database, and Nginx. He also reduced multi-word search latency from 1000 msec to 200 msec by improvising SQL queries and database schema. Sai holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Computer Science from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani. His tech stack includes Backend, AWS, Golang, SQL, Redis, Search, Integration, PHP, Django, Amazon Athena, MySQL, Postgres, and UI. His relevant experience is 4.78 years. Sai is not only a skilled developer but also a Tech Blogger, where he shares his knowledge and experience with others.