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Rahul Singhal

Software Engineer

San Francisco, California, United States10 yrs 10 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led successful cross-functional projects at Meta.
  • Expert in building and scaling 0-1 products.
  • Strong mentor and team motivator.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS-focused software engineer with expertise in database engineering and monetization platforms.

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Skills

Core Skills

Database EngineeringProduction EngineeringMarketplace DevelopmentCross-functional CollaborationMonetization Platform DevelopmentAds Delivery InfrastructurePerformance OptimizationWeb Development

Other Skills

MySQLResource GovernanceTeam LeadershipReal-Time ReportingUI Component DevelopmentPrototype DevelopmentRTEMS PlatformjQueryJavaScriptJavaCC++PythonAlgorithmsProgramming

About

Experienced Tech Leader with a demonstrated history of 1. Executing and landing multi-team/cross-org/cross-functional projects. 2. First hand experience building 0-1 products and making them successful. 3. Mentoring/Influencing/Motivating teams. 4. Designing complex large scale distributed systems.

Experience

10 yrs 10 mos
Total Experience
7 yrs 9 mos
Average Tenure
3 yrs 3 mos
Current Experience

Databricks

Staff Software Engineer

Feb 2023Present · 3 yrs 3 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Meta

5 roles

Staff Software Engineer (Databases)

Jan 2020Apr 2023 · 3 yrs 3 mos

  • Led initiatives to proactively cut down production issues faced by database engineering teams.
  • Designed & built native support in mysql server so it can self-resolve replication lags due to increased write workloads by penalizing bad tenants.
  • Partnered with production engineering team, data caching and database customers to design staged rollout plan that provided early signals to potentially impacted customers and successfully deployed it in production.
  • As Meta scales, we are investing heavily in multi-tenant infrastructure. Currently, leading the resource governance initiative which aims to provide resource usage guarantees and fairness to database workloads running in shared environments. Directly interfacing with core customers to collect feedback & iterate on design.
MySQLDatabase EngineeringProduction EngineeringResource Governance

Senior Software Engineering (IG+FB Creator Monetization)

Promoted

Jan 2018Jan 2020 · 2 yrs

  • Area lead for 0-1 bet by Facebook to build a marketplace to make it easy for brands and content creators to collaborate on sponsored content. Brand Collabs Manager was announced at Vidcon 2018.
  • Tech led a team of 11 engineers, interfaced closely with X-functional product partners. Worked with PMM and sales leads on GTM plan and a successful launch.
  • Bootstrapped the marketplace to auto onboard content creators and advertisers that were already publishing sponsored content on FB and IG to fuel the marketplace after its launch.
Cross-Functional CollaborationMarketplace DevelopmentTeam Leadership

Senior Software Engineer (Publisher Monetization)

Promoted

Jan 2017Jan 2018 · 1 yr

  • Team tech lead for the new monetization and analytics platform for publishers. Responsible for X-functional collaboration between Ads, publisher-brand safety and monetization product teams.
  • Built the infrastructure to enable publishers to set price targets for each ad placement.
  • Drove consensus with Facebook ads and business manager teams to agree on a publisher monetization data model to simplify management of ad placements while ensuring efficient ads delivery, reporting and payouts.
Monetization Platform DevelopmentCross-Functional Collaboration

Software Engineer (Publisher Monetization)

Jul 2015Jan 2017 · 1 yr 6 mos

  • Infrastructure to support ads delivery related real-time reporting and insight products for Audience Network publishers.
  • Consolidation of user experience for publishers using Facebook audience network and those that were acquired as part of LiveRail acquisition.
Real-Time ReportingAds Delivery Infrastructure

Software Engineering Intern

May 2014Jul 2014 · 2 mos · Menlo Park, California

  • Performance optimization of Facebook Ads manager to make product navigation seamless. Worked with the design team to update navigation flows. Built a hybrid of data bootstrapping & pre-loading of UI components to reduce the perceived latency.
Performance OptimizationUI Component Development

Technische universität braunschweig

Research Intern

May 2013Jul 2013 · 2 mos

  • Worked on aerospace applications. Research team was using a RTEMS platform for their hardware. Built prototypes to prove feasibility of transition to platform built using L4-Fiasco microkernel.
Prototype DevelopmentRTEMS Platform

Educational initiatives

Software Engineer Intern

Nov 2012Dec 2012 · 1 mo

  • Migrated flash applications to equivalent web-apps written using jQuery and JavaScript to help the company avoid compatibility issues flash applications keep running into.
Web DevelopmentjQueryJavaScript

Education

Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

Bachelor of Technology (BTech) — Computer Science

Jan 2011Jan 2015

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