Abhishek Raj

Software Engineer

London, England, United Kingdom12 yrs 6 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Led AI and distributed systems projects at Meta and Apple.
Scaled One Stop for Writers into a leading platform for authors.
Recognized as a global talent by the United Kingdom.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-heavy SaaS expert with a focus on AI and distributed systems.

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Skills

Core Skills

Distributed SystemsSoftware InfrastructureSoftware ObservabilityBig Data

Other Skills

HackSoftware DesignMachine LearningJavaPython (Programming Language)ScalaApache KafkaApache SparkApache StormKafkaStormBackendCassandraMicroservicesCloud Computing

About

Engineering leader at the intersection of AI, internet-scale distributed systems, platform integrity, and creator tech. Over the past decade I’ve shipped revenue-moving, reliability-raising systems at companies like Meta, Apple, and JioSaavn. As CTO of One Stop for Writers, I scaled the product into a category-leading platform for authors with a standout, differentiated feature set. Recognized as a global talent by the United Kingdom.

Experience

12 yrs 6 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 9 mos

Average Tenure

1 yr 2 mos

Current Experience

Apple

2 roles

Senior Software Engineer

May 2022 – Mar 2025 · 2 yrs 10 mos

Building massively scalable observability platforms @Apple

Software DesignSoftware InfrastructureBig DataDistributed SystemsSoftware ObservabilityJava+5

Senior Software Engineer

Jan 2020 – May 2022 · 2 yrs 4 mos

Saavn

4 roles

Technical Lead

Jun 2019 – Jan 2020 · 7 mos · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

Acted as a mentor for junior engineers within the team.
Managed projects with a focus on deliverables and managing timelines.

Senior Software Engineer

Promoted

Jun 2018 – Jun 2019 · 1 yr · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

Developed fraud prevention systems using Kafka, Storm.
Developed an in house realtime ratelimiting system for blocking excessive requests in an
autoscaling architecture.
Developed a user targeting system for catering to complex set of cohort requests using Cassandra, Presto, Storm, Hive.
Created a centralized logging system for monitoring logs of various clusters in realtime using Elasticsearch.
Part of the team managing various big data clusters like Kafka, Storm, Mongo and Cassandra.

Software Engineer

Jul 2016 – May 2018 · 1 yr 10 mos · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

Infrastructure software engineer working on big data.
Wrote various real time data pipelines for monitoring and analysis of data using Storm, Kafka.

Software Engineer Intern

May 2015 – Jul 2015 · 2 mos · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

Created new applications using real time data processing frameworks to gather analytics about currently implemented systems.

Training & placement cell, iit ropar

Student Co-ordinator

Aug 2014 – May 2016 · 1 yr 9 mos · Ropar, Punjab, India

Member of the Advisory Committee: Activities include setting up placement procedure and policy, communicating with potential recruiters, making key decisions regarding recruitment and facilitating the placement process.

Google

Student Ambassador

Jul 2014 – Apr 2016 · 1 yr 9 mos · Indian Institute of Technology Ropar

Organize and lead Android development classes for students.
Learn about innovative Google products and programs.
Plan and host fun events on campus.
Act as a campus contact for Google teams.
Help Google better understand each university’s culture.

Indian institute of technology, patna

Summer Intern

May 2014 – Jul 2014 · 2 mos · Greater Patna Area

Text Mining in Biomedicine.under Doctor Asif Ekbal.
a) Worked in the field of data mining and machine learning to design a system for Disorder Mention Detection and Classification from patient records (SEMEVAL Task 7).
b) Improved the efficiency of CHEMDNER system built by 10%.