Rajkiran R.

Software Engineer

Munich, Bavaria, Germany13 yrs experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in building cloud-native applications.
Led high-volume integrations at Personio.
Strong focus on operational excellence and observability.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS backend engineer with a focus on integrations and operational excellence.

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Skills

Other Skills

API DevelopmentAlgorithmsAmazon Web Services (AWS)Data StructuresJavaJava Object Oriented Querying (jOOQ)KubernetesMySQLProgrammingProtobufRedisSpring BootSpring SecuritygRPC

About

Experienced in building cloud-native applications, deploying with a focus on observability. Motivated by projects/platforms that enable organization-wide benefits, operation excellence, and strong processes that shape velocity. Always learning. Please note: I regularly check my message requests inbox. If you have a query about the recruitment process at Personio or any other professionally relevant question for me, please send a message directly without a connection request.

Experience

Personio

3 roles

Staff Engineer

Oct 2024 – Present · 1 yr 5 mos · Munich, Bavaria, Germany

Leading Personio's efforts to build embedded integration experiences, currently through the integration with Remote.com

Lead Engineer

Promoted

Oct 2022 – Oct 2024 · 2 yrs · Munich, Bavaria, Germany

Built foundational components to store and manage third party authentications. Drew initial blueprints to set the technical vision and direction for building highly scalable integrations.
Founding engineer and technical lead for Personio Webhooks. Built a robust data processing pipeline to enable integration partners to build efficient downstream processes on top of various changes to Personio system of record.
Led Webhooks to General Availability serving XX k+ qps at peak volume, handling more than XX million events per week. Current event catalog is available here- https://developer.personio.de/v2.0/reference/webhooks

Senior Backend Engineer

Feb 2021 – Oct 2022 · 1 yr 8 mos · Munich, Bavaria, Germany

[October 2021] Part of the People Workflow Automation launch at H.U.G 2021. Contributor to Slack and Microsoft Teams integrations' absence requests capabilities.
[April 2021] Part of the initial global launch of Personio's Integrations Marketplace.

Career break

Health and well-being

Sep 2020 – Jan 2021 · 4 mos · Chennai, Tamil Nadu

Classic case of burnout leading to a short break, fortunately extended by awaiting a work permit for Germany.

Freshworks

3 roles

Lead Software Engineer

Promoted

May 2019 – Aug 2020 · 1 yr 3 mos · Chennai Area, India

1. Worked towards the goal of unified customer experience at Freshworks. My contributions were part of the identity platform which powered single sign-on for Freshworks products. I worked on performance testing and operational excellence focussed on stability post 100% internal adoption. Key contributor and developer in charge of migrating users transparently from product-specific sign-in to the SSO platform.
2. Worked on an API gateway component that provides features such as rate-limiting, surge protection. Extended the design of the system to incorporate more features, added observability, and charted the path towards a WYSIWYG model while maintaining the core tenets of having low latency & high throughput.
3. Wrote the request context and authentication brokering middleware for Freshworks' revamped CRM offering.

Senior Software Engineer

Promoted

May 2017 – Apr 2019 · 1 yr 11 mos · Chennai Area, India

1. Built and deployed email and content spam filtering engine for Freshworks products.
2. Worked on unified customer experience as part of the identity management platform for Freshworks ecosystem.

Software Engineer

Jun 2016 – Apr 2017 · 10 mos · Chennai Area, India

Worked on an event store platform, which ingested semi-structured event payloads into Elasticsearch and provided aggregation and segmentation capabilities.

Amazon

Software Development Engineer

Jul 2014 – May 2016 · 1 yr 10 mos · Bangalore, India

1. Part of the Seller Fulfilment and Discovery teams under Amazon Home Services
2. Part of the Offer Listing team working on ranking offers based on relevance to customer.

Microsoft

Software Development Engineer Intern

Jun 2013 – Aug 2013 · 2 mos · Hyderabad, India

Bing Segments Team

Ceg tech forum

Student Director

Apr 2013 – Apr 2014 · 1 yr · College of Engineering Guindy

Events Coordinator of the annual technical fest Kurukshetra, 2014.
Managed events coming under the categories of quiz, marketing and online treasure hunts.

Acm student chapter

Secretary

Jul 2012 – Mar 2013 · 8 mos · College of Engineering, Guindy

Weekly activities of the student chapter including talks, hands-on sessions and the annual event Prodigy, conducted to increase awareness about computer science among school students.