Rajat Sahu

Senior Software Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India8 yrs 4 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

7+ years of experience in full-stack development
Expert in building scalable microservices
Strong mentoring and leadership skills

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Full-Stack Developer specializing in Fintech and EdTech with expertise in microservices architecture.

Contact

rajat.sahu@gojek.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

GolangJavaReactPythonAsp.net

Other Skills

API designAPI developmentAWSAirflowAmazon Web Services (AWS)AngularJSCSSDjangoDockerEnglishFlaskGitHTMLJavaScriptKafka

About

Experienced full-stack developer with 7+ years in building scalable, reliable, and high-performance distributed systems. Currently working at Gojek, where I design and scale microservices used by millions across Southeast Asia. Proficient in Java, Golang, Kafka, gRPC, and event-driven architecture. Strong in backend engineering, system design, production monitoring, and mentoring engineers. I enjoy solving real-world problems, improving developer workflows, and delivering high-impact products through collaboration. Previously contributed to ed-tech, health-tech, and public sector products—delivering impact across domains. Skills: Golang, Java, .Net, Python, JS, Flask, SpringBoot, React, K8s, Docker and many more.

Experience

Gojek

2 roles

Software Engineer III

Promoted

Apr 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

1. Core developer in building and scaling GoPayLater, a fintech product used by millions of customers across Southeast Asia.
2. Led multiple end-to-end initiatives: authored RFCs, drove design discussions, and owned feature delivery from requirements gathering to production rollout.
3. Scaled microservices to handle high-traffic transactions, improving system performance, reliability, and observability.
4. Mentored junior engineers, conducted code reviews, and guided best practices for microservice design and cloud-native development.
5. Played a key role in cloud migration from GCP to Alibaba Cloud, ensuring service continuity, reliability, and cost optimization.
6. Designed and optimized API gateways, enabling seamless communication across multiple services while improving latency and resilience.
7. Currently part of the GoFood domain, ensuring smooth post-booking flows for merchants

GolangJavaKafkagRPCmicroservicesAPI design+1

Software Engineer II

Nov 2021 – Apr 2023 · 1 yr 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

1. I work as a full stack developer, managing and scaling paylater microservices. (Java API's and React Frontend)
2. Worked on React Frontend, with tailwind css, have majorly worked on analytic integration and clickstream
3. Worked on growth functionally to solve users pain points and enhanced user journey by developing and enhancing KYC, SSO and other flows.
4. Responsible for operational and production support on rotation basis (Have understanding of fixing issue in microservices and using tools such as Datadog, Newrelic and other metrics to maintain SLA;s)
5. Here contributed on Spark Java, Spring Boot, gRPC, Helm/K8s deployments, Javascript,Python and few RoR tasks
6. Have worked on Reactive based frameworks such as SpringWeb Flux, and worked on various authentication such as TLS, mTLS, oAuth etc.

JavaReactSpring BootgRPCKubernetesPython

Nineleaps

3 roles

Software Development Engineer III

Oct 2020 – Oct 2021 · 1 yr

1. Lead backend team to develop python API's for an Ed-Tech product.
2. Developed admin panel, involved in end-to-end process from designing to developing the admin functionality.
3. Worked as founding member on a Finance related project from scratch, the project was data intensive where we needed to collect data from various sources, we used Workato and airflow/python pipelines to create data aggregation pipelines.

PythonAPI developmentdata aggregationWorkatoAirflow

Software Development Engineer II

Promoted

Jul 2018 – Oct 2020 · 2 yrs 3 mos

1. Contributed extensively to Mentoring and grooming new hires.
2. Acted as Founding member and lead for the ApnaIAS ed-tech product in Nineleaps.
3. Discussed, designed, Implemented, and deployed the core of the product in Python, React, and AWS.
4. Created Airflow pipeline with the integration of python scrappers and ML scripts.
5. Integrated Razorpay with a custom checkout method, moved docker-compose deployment to k8s cluster.

PythonReactAWSAirflow

Member Of Technical Staff

Sep 2017 – Jun 2018 · 9 mos

1. Worked on a health care project as a backend developer.
2. Primarily worked on ASP.NET Web API with the contribution in Angular Js.
3. Responsible for end-to-end story delivery and worked on significant signal connection and refactoring improvement.

ASP.NETAngularJS