Rajesh Chowdary

Senior Software Engineer

Hyderabad, Telangana, India14 yrs experience

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Key Highlights

Expert in scalable architecture and data engineering.
Led teams to deliver high-impact projects at Flipkart.
Proficient in backend development with diverse tech stack.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-heavy Fullstack Engineer with expertise in E-commerce and SaaS.

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Skills

Core Skills

Back-end Web DevelopmentData EngineeringScalable ArchitecturePeople ManagementLarge Scale SystemsSoftware Development

Other Skills

Go (Programming Language)DockerPostgreSQLKubernetesPerformance TuningData ArchitectureProject ManagementStakeholder ManagementMentoringMetricsDistributed SystemsHigh Availability ArchitectureAPI DevelopmentApache KafkaRedis

About

A passionate engineer who loves creating, designing and developing solutions that drive impact at scale.

Experience

14 yrs

Total Experience

2 yrs

Average Tenure

2 yrs 8 mos

Current Experience

Deliveroo

Senior Software Engineer

Sep 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 8 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · Hybrid

Go (Programming Language)Back-End Web Development

Hellofresh

Senior Software Engineer

Dec 2022 – May 2023 · 5 mos · India · Remote

Payment fraud detection
Rule engine to configure profitability based subscription/order cancellations

DockerPostgreSQLGo (Programming Language)KubernetesData Engineering

Career break

Health and well-being

Feb 2022 – Nov 2022 · 9 mos

Thoughtspot

Staff Software Engineer

Nov 2020 – Jan 2022 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

- Enabled ThoughtSpot to integrate with Oracle Cloud Data-Warehouse for new Oracle DW based clients

Flipkart

4 roles

Technical Lead

Sep 2018 – Feb 2020 · 1 yr 5 mos

- Lead a team of ~10-14 engineers responsible for cross-cutting platforms responsible for delivering Ads, Recommendations and Personalised Merchandising

People ManagementProject ManagementStakeholder ManagementData EngineeringMentoring

Software Development Engineer 4

Promoted

Feb 2017 – Oct 2020 · 3 yrs 8 mos

Oversaw the implementation of a key-feature enabling Flipkart’s discovery platform to be aware of differential pricing based on customer (loyal vs non-loyal)
Re-Architected the seller-ranking service with a more neat and simplified reactive-programming constructs; also scaling it further to ~10X
Moved the key underlying data-store of Redis from a vertically shared one to Redis-Cloud

Performance TuningScalable ArchitectureData Architecture

Software Development Engineer 3

Promoted

Jul 2015 – Jan 2017 · 1 yr 6 mos

Providing visibility over the Ingestion Platform, with metrics around data-loss, errors, inconsistencies and functional aspects
Increasing accountability of the platform through automatic data-validation over a sample as well as priority based correction (reconciliation)
Scaling the whole platform (updates/reads/writes) to ~10-15X
Owned a seller-ranking API that witnesses a scale of ~50-100K ops/s

MetricsDistributed SystemsLarge Scale SystemsHigh Availability Architecture

Software Development Engineer 2

Jul 2014 – Jun 2015 · 11 mos

Built streaming based ingestion-platform for Flipkart’s search
Handling near-real-time updates and querying on an immutable and inverted search-index through an in-memory representation (custom-built)
Update processing scale of ~5k updates/s, NoSQL writes of ~10-20k/s, NoSQL reads of ~50k/s

API DevelopmentApache KafkaRedisJavaBack-End Web DevelopmentSolr+1

Adobe

2 roles

Member of Technical Staff II

Promoted

Jan 2013 – Jul 2014 · 1 yr 6 mos · Noida Area, India

- Built the API based worker-layer and a PHP plugin to expose Adobe’s native core-libraries responsible for image encoding/decoding (JPEG, PNG, TIFF etc.) as part of their desktop-to-cloud transition.

C++Software Development