Rahul Godbole

Co-Founder

Pune, Maharashtra, India18 yrs 3 mos experience

Key Highlights

Expert in real-time systems and distributed architectures.
Proven track record in high-performance ad serving.
Strong background in cryptography and network security.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-heavy Fullstack developer with expertise in SaaS and Fintech.

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Skills

Other Skills

Agile MethodologiesAlgorithmsCC++C/C++ STLData StructuresDatabasesGo (Programming Language)GolangLangChainLarge Language Models (LLM)LinuxMicro-servicesMongoDBMultithreading

About

Developer at heart with experience in areas such as hard real-time server side systems, networking, cryptography, distributed systems of various kinds, microservices, load balancers. Worked in various companies, situations, cultures, tech stacks and languages. Worked in several languages like C, C++, Kotlin, Scala, Golang and NodeJS. Experience in mis-managing teams, getting my head spinning on production issues, troubling others with questions, writing code with bugs and then fixing them and spending sleepless nights on the next tech problem to solve which I am struggling to understand ………. and then learning from all this😀

Experience

Self employed

Independent Consultant and Solopreneur

Apr 2025 – Present · 11 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India

1. Working on Zer0 Data Analyst - a product that I am building to do context aware analytics on loads of data using AgenticAI. See zer0analyst.com
2. Occasional mentoring for folks at ctrlb.ai
3. Independent consultant for some companies

Career break

Personal goal pursuit

Aug 2023 – Mar 2025 · 1 yr 7 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India

1. Took this break to handle family needs
2. Worked on some of my interests in automated trading.
3. Worked as a contractor for Lightbeam.ai
4. Mentored folks at ctrlb.ai as a technology advisor

Privado.ai

Lead Software Engineer

Nov 2022 – Aug 2023 · 9 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India

Worked on a static code analyser to trace privacy issues in products

Udaan.com

Architect

Sep 2021 – Nov 2022 · 1 yr 2 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India

Development, architecture and enhancement of Udaan’s platform to solve the next level of challenges

Pubmatic

2 roles

Staff Engineer

Mar 2021 – Sep 2021 · 6 mos

Working on serving targeted ads at massive scale with heavy data processing and minimum latency

Senior Principal Software Engineer

Feb 2018 – Feb 2021 · 3 yrs

Working on a leading high performance ad server. Working on processing ad requests at massive scale to show relevant ads.

Scalearc

Senior Member of Technical Staff II

Nov 2013 – Nov 2017 · 4 yrs · Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area

Worked on the back end of a leading high performance database proxy server. Implemented features in its data and control/config paths. Implemented the load balancer, failover/resilience related features and performance/scalability related improvements. Fixed bugs and customer escalations.

Aruba networks

Member of Technical Staff

Oct 2012 – Oct 2013 · 1 yr · Bangalore

Worked on cryptography in Aruba Instant access points. Extensively worked on OpenSSL, CyaSSL and rewrote a lot of cryptography done in the product.

Credit suisse business analytics

Tech Lead/Individual Contributor

Jan 2010 – Oct 2012 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Hiranandani, Powai, Mumbai

Worked on a low latency, hard realtime application in C++ on Linux. Was instrumental in heavy optimizations done inside it and its feature development and maintenance.
Wrote an internal product from scratch to compute the realtime market exposure of the trading that the bank is doing in US exchanges. This was capable of taking tens of thousands of packets per second from multiple TCP connections and compute a realtime statistic using them. Was responsible of the reliability, HA, maintainability and performance of this mission critical product.

Fortify infrastructure ( now mphasis), client: key pair technologies

Software Developer

Feb 2009 – Dec 2009 · 10 mos

Was one of the first few developers in the startup.
Write the configuration management framework and CLI framework of this product from scratch. Also write a TCP+UDP+SSL proxy with captive portal authentication from scratch for this product. This was capable of relaying any type of traffic over TCP/UDP/SSL. Was responsible for a lot of maintenance of this product as well.

Nevis networks

Software Engineer

Jun 2008 – Jan 2009 · 7 mos · Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area

Worked on the Application Level Gateway ( ALG ) of the LANEnforcer LAN security appliance.

Vistaar technologies

Trainee Software Engineer

Jun 2005 – Jul 2006 · 1 yr 1 mo · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

Worked on a distributed query processing backend of a datawarehousing system that does multidimensional analysis over large sets of data. Worked in C++ and Linux.