Rahul Bhardwaj

Software Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India14 yrs 6 mos experience

Key Highlights

Expert in scalable architecture and distributed systems.
Proven track record in software development across top tech companies.
Innovative thinker with a focus on improving hiring processes.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-heavy Software Engineer with expertise in SaaS and Cloud Computing.

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Skills

Core Skills

Software DevelopmentDistributed Systems

Other Skills

AlgorithmsC#Cloud ComputingCloud Computing IaaSCloud ManageabilityCloud StorageComputer SecurityData StructuresHTMLJavaJavaScriptMicrosoft SQL ServerPythonREST APIsSQL

About

I engineer systems - persistent and resilient!

Experience

Google

Staff Software Engineer & Tech Lead Manager

Jun 2025 – Present · 9 mos

Salesforce

Principal Software Engineer

Dec 2023 – May 2025 · 1 yr 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Agoda

Senior Staff Software Engineer

Jul 2023 – Nov 2023 · 4 mos · Bangkok City, Thailand

Flights Team.
Unfortunately this partnership didn't last long because I decided to come back to India for family.

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Career break

Personal goal pursuit

Nov 2022 – May 2023 · 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka

1. Explored a passion project for reducing cost-per-hire by improving hiring processes. This included improving panel assignments, thereby reducing wasteful interview rounds and bringing overall cost-per-hire down.
Applied unsuccessfully to a couple of VCs including YCombinator for funding. I wasn’t able to bootstrap.
2. Travelled extensively.

Microsoft

Principal Software Engineer

Jan 2021 – Oct 2022 · 1 yr 9 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

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Adobe

3 roles

Computer Scientist II (SDE IV)

Promoted

Feb 2018 – Jan 2021 · 2 yrs 11 mos

Backend Engineer working on Adobe Experience Manager Platform

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Computer Scientist (SDE III)

Promoted

Feb 2015 – Jan 2018 · 2 yrs 11 mos

Backend Engineer.
Areas :
1. Adobe Experience Manager - Forms : Process Management, Forms Workspace
2. Adobe Experience Manager - Communities : Social Component Framework, Moderation

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