Rajat Mehla

CEO

Gurugram, Haryana, India10 yrs 8 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in building scalable backend systems.
Proven track record in team leadership and mentoring.
Extensive experience in FinTech and ERP domains.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-focused Engineer with extensive experience in FinTech and ERP solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

JavaMicroservicesTeam ManagementAws

Other Skills

AerospikeAmazon S3Amazon SQSClean CodingCross-team CollaborationDomain-Driven Design (DDD)ERPElastic Stack (ELK)ElasticsearchEngineering ManagementEvent Driven ArchitectureExtract, Transform, Load (ETL)GradleGrafanaHTML

About

Senior Lead Engineer and Architect with 11 years of experience specializing in design and implementation of robust, scalable, fault tolerant, production ready distributed backend software systems.Strong knowledge of developing and maintaing end to end software solutions Experienced in building, leading high-performing teams, mentoring/supporting engineers and driving technical excellence Domains - FinTech, Enterprise Resource planning (ERP), E-Commerce, Banking & Insurance Skills - Programming : Java , Spring Boot, JPA, ReactJS, AngularJS, Multithreading Databases & Storage : SQL, NoSQL, MongoDB, Influx DB, Aerospike, Redis, Memcached, S3, Cassandra, ElasticSearch, DynamoDB Queue and streams: SQS, Kafka, RabbitMQ Build & Deployment : Maven, Ant, Gradle, NPM , Jenkins, GitHub workflows, Docker, Kubernetes (K8s), Cloud, AWS Monitoring, Logging and alerts: Grafana , Kibana, Whatap, Grafana, Datadog, Slack/Email alerts, InfluxDB, ElasticSearch Architecture : Microservices, REST APIs , Domain Driven Design (DDD), Test Driven Development (TDD), Clean Code, SOLID principles, Design patterns, Distributed System Design, Scalable services, Code optimisations, Creating and maintaining HLDs and LLDs

Experience

Balancehero india

3 roles

Senior Lead Engineer

Promoted

Jan 2025 – Present · 1 yr 2 mos

Introduced orchestration service to support complex workflows in loan platform
Introduced even driven architecture to decouple microservices and improve system scale, reliability & performance
Implemented SPEL based rule engine to reduce deployments and allow business changes using configuration only.
Led 2 Co-Lending & 5 FLDG integrations (FinTech) with end to end ownership (With loan disbursement impact of 1200 crores annually)
Built and managed a team of 6 engineers, fostering good engineering culture and achieving high implementation throughput
Conducted one on one's and performace reviews to support personnel development of Engineers.
Progressively refactored the code to reduce technical debt
Planned and coordinated feature developement while overseeing estimates and deliverables, collaborating with business, product , QA, Devops and external teams
Reviewed BRD, PRD and translated it to ERD, LLD and eventually to broken down tasks

JavaSpring BootMicroservicesEvent Driven ArchitectureSPELTeam Management+1

Lead Engineer

Promoted

Jan 2023 – Dec 2024 · 1 yr 11 mos

SQLJ2EEInfluxDBNoSQLMicroservicesJavaScript+29

Software Engineer 3

Jun 2022 – Dec 2022 · 6 mos

SQLJ2EEInfluxDBNoSQLMicroservicesJavaScript+24

Bharti airtel

Lead Engineer

May 2021 – May 2022 · 1 yr · Gurugram, Haryana, India · Remote

Enhanced and evolved the Airtel Thanks Shop ecosystem from a functional as well as technical standpoint
Introduced Devices category to an ecosystem built for services like Net ix, HotStar etc.
Proposed system design for system wide changes and implemented same using agile approach
Analysed and fixed various system stability issues at micro-service level
Frequently liaised with product management team to come up with a feasible functional enhancements
Engaged with Airtel partner teams to understand their APIs to be able to integrate with Airtel Shop
Analysed complex functional requirements, broke those down into JIRA stories , planned and assigned the same to junior team members
Introduced Consul to centralise micro-service wide properties
Optimised the canary pipeline to correctly report metrics for automated deployments
Worked on Automata orchestrator to design product purchase work flows

SQLJ2EEInfluxDBMavenNoSQLMongoDB+25

Oracle

Senior Applications Engineer

Oct 2019 – May 2021 · 1 yr 7 mos · Hyderabad Area, India · On-site

Managed design and implementation of data centric ERP applications while adapting to Oracle internal
frameworks
Assembled data from already resolved service requests via Java utility & generated reports on recurring issues,
which was later used for system improvement recommendations
Applied ranged sharding technique in BE layer to reduce job latency by 75% effectively
Boosting application stability by making module wide changes and reducing incoming ow of bugs by 30%
Redesigning existing UI for simpler usage and testing end to end ow to ensure smooth working end product
Liaising with 5 testing members to unlock test cases daily and providing code changes along with data
manipulation to enable scenario replication
Coordinating with co-member to develop fault tolerant data storage by outlining and e ectuating backup strategies
Guiding 5+ people working on new features and volunteering for module level code reviews and refactoring

SQLJ2EEMicroservicesSoftware Design PatternsGrafanaTest-Driven Development+9

Deloitte

Consultant

Jun 2018 – Sep 2019 · 1 yr 3 mos · Hyderabad Area, India · On-site

Drafted functional & technical design specifications by coordinating with 2 senior designers and assisted UI team in frontend tasks
Reported effciency received from local caching layer project to management and implemented production ready cache
Worked in cross functional team to help DevOps team i.e. team managing server in implementing Continuous Integration Continuous Development (CICD pipeline)
Created Amazon Web Service (AWS) lambda functions supporting order management to provide online ordering of beverages, snacks in stadiums and theatres based on GPS location
Promoted integration of backend with iOS and ReactJS Layer and devised proof of concept app for client with iOS team
Handled development work effectively and performed unit, regression and integration testing for 2 projects
Engaged in activities i.e. technical blockers, timeline estimations, feasibility study and proof of concept (POCs) for new projects by analysing project data
Interacted with clients by demonstrating USPs and value proposition via 1:1 interaction with point of contact

SQLJ2EEInfluxDBMavenMicroservicesJavaScript+18

Infosys

System Engineer

Feb 2015 – May 2018 · 3 yrs 3 mos · Pune Area, India · On-site

Implemented and tested Java based web application to deliver end to end working product efficiently
Maintained complex Oracle SQL & Ab-Initio data warehouse system by developing & testing features for production
Built macro based utility to facilitate moving huge number of files across linux machines to reduce development time by 20%

SQLJ2EEMavenMicroservicesSpring MVCJenkins+7