Rahul Mittal

VP of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India11 yrs 9 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Led teams to achieve multi-million ARR growth.
Architected scalable Tier 1 systems with 20k TPS.
Innovated global payroll solutions for 192 countries.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS Engineering Leader with expertise in scalable systems and team management.

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Core Skills

Team LeadershipSystem ArchitectureOperational ExcellenceProduct DevelopmentPerformance EngineeringCollaboration

Other Skills

SQLDatadogevent-driven processingautomationfault-tolerancePost-mortemsOncall retrosmonitoringJIRAAPI designmicroservicessecurity reviewperformance optimizationCC++

About

Engineering Manager with 9+ years, leading teams to build and scale customer-centric marketplaces (Deel, Rippling, Amazon). I specialize in building high-performing teams from the ground up (0-1), architecting resilient, scalable Tier 1 systems (20k TPS), cost-efficient systems, and solving complex business challenges to drive multi-million ARR growth.

Experience

Deel

2 roles

Senior Engineering Manager

Promoted

Jan 2025 – Present · 1 yr 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Remote

Delivered 96% productivity gain by innovating a compliant-first global time-tracking and payroll calculation engine; eliminating inaccuracy (error < $0.1)
Architected product as a distributed service (“Timesheet-Interpretation-as-a-Service”) supporting 192 countries; standardized Deel + 3rd-party input/outputs and enabling >95% automation via self-serve rules, corrections, and scalable event-driven processing.
Well versed with operational excellence practices like multi-layered monitoring through Datadog, P99 service monitors, sentries and audits; SQL transactions; output validations; >90% test and branch coverage; playwright; fail-fast philosophy; fault-tolerance and automatic recovery; Post-mortems and Oncall retros
Engineering excellence driven team culture - PRD reviews (for maintainability), design reviews (for reliability, scalability, and extensibility), code reviews (readability), release checklist, automations like AI-assisted code reviews, and coverage checks.
Founded and empowering leaders in an org of 12 engineers across 2 teams.

SQLDatadogevent-driven processingautomationfault-tolerancePost-mortems+3

Engineering Manager

Nov 2023 – Dec 2024 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Remote

Leading a team of 8 engineers (BE + FE) and working along with PM, QA and Designers.
Building from scratch a highly configurable (per customer level) time-tracking interpretation and payroll calculation software for hourly workers across 192 countries.
Responsible for the team's productivity with effective processes and focus on engineering and operational excellence.

Rippling

2 roles

Engineering Manager

Promoted

Apr 2022 – Oct 2023 · 1 yr 6 mos

Drove 250% ARR growth ($10M to $35M) in one year by leading 9 engineers across 2 sub-teams. Introduced on-call rotations, automated JIRA ticketing for code errors and weekly OE reviews to improve operational excellence.
Launched a $1M ARR product in 2 months despite post-COVID headcount constraints, coordinating across US/EU/IN time zones.
Designed and led a profitable and fully automated PEO Workers Comp module in Rippling from scratch in collaboration with internal stakeholders and an external partner company, raking in 1.5M ARR in 1 year.
Designed and led API contracts with 2 external companies for a fully automated US tax account registration and employee benefit assistance system.

JIRAAPI designautomationTeam LeadershipProduct Development

Senior Software Engineer

Sep 2020 – Apr 2022 · 1 yr 7 mos

Built multiple zero to one products that are earning multi millions in ARR.

Amazon

3 roles

Software Development Engineer 2

Promoted

Jul 2018 – Sep 2020 · 2 yrs 2 mos

Proposed and designed a platform microservice simplifying work for 5 other teams by extracting out the redundant business and storage layer into a framework.
Served as a certified security reviewer for 2 microservices.
Optimized a tier-1 service (20 K TPS) - reduced P99 latency from 5 ms -> 0.1 ms using cache, cutting infra cost by 80%.
Delivered time-sensitive and newly launched GST compliance of all the sellers.

microservicessecurity reviewperformance optimizationSystem ArchitecturePerformance Engineering