Rakesh Chhabra

Software Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India19 yrs 2 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Expert in building large scale distributed systems.
  • Led engineering efforts for 3 billion users at Meta.
  • Developed scalable solutions for Yahoo Mail.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-heavy Fullstack engineer specializing in Fintech and SaaS solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

Distributed SystemsWeb ServicesScalability

Other Skills

Software DevelopmentJavaPerformance OptimizationData ExtractionData StructuresElasticSearchSolrPulsarVespaHadoopPig

About

Expertise in building large scale distributed systems and highly scalable web service stacks. Skilled in object oriented design and programming, Scalability and Agile Methodologies.

Experience

19 yrs 2 mos
Total Experience
8 yrs 3 mos
Average Tenure
2 yrs 7 mos
Current Experience

Salesforce

Principal Member of Technical Staff

Oct 2023Present · 2 yrs 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Meta

Software Engineer - Lead

Apr 2019Aug 2023 · 4 yrs 4 mos · Menlo Park, California · On-site

  • Lead engineer in MFT (Meta Fintech) group.
  • 1. Solving for the payment needs of ~3B users on FB.
  • 2. Building platform to help us to scale globally across many use cases.
  • 3. Acting as a tech lead for a team/subgroup in MFT.
Software DevelopmentJavaDistributed SystemsWeb Services

Yahoo

3 roles

Principal Software Engineer

Promoted

Mar 2019Apr 2019 · 1 mo

Senior Engineering Manager

Sep 2017Mar 2019 · 1 yr 6 mos

Principal Software Engineer

Dec 2006Sep 2017 · 10 yrs 9 mos

  • Leading various effort for empowering next generation Mail Experiences for 700 Million Yahoo users by developing highly scalable, efficient & reliable products and platform infrastructure.
  • Leading the effort to index Yahoo Mail data on Yahoo Cloud and extract structured data like
  • flights, orders, events from mails.
  • Designed and implemented service for classifying all email deliveries in Yahoo mail in sub millisecond latency in real time delivery.
  • Developed system to extract, enhance and index personal links from emails.
  • Led efforts towards scalability, performance optimization, and large scale data & platform migrations.
  • Implemented the cardDAV interface for Yahoo Address Book, which empowers mobile devices to sync their contacts with Yahoo Contacts.
  • Developed platform to compute global and category wise user reputation scores. These scores were used as signals for content personalization, comment ranking , abuse detection and customer care.
  • Developed Web Traffic Management System (WTMS) to manage the web traffic by metering varied entities (both predefined or logical) & providing complex controls over metered entities. This helps in shaping, scheduling & policing the traffic on behalf of hosted services within Yahoo!.
  • Mentored teammates in several products, platforms & technologies.
ScalabilityPerformance OptimizationData ExtractionWeb Services

Education

National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli

Master's Degree — Computer Applications

Jan 2004Jan 2007

Delhi University

Bachelor's degree — Computer Science

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