Rishabh Upadhayay

Software Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India6 yrs 8 mos experience

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Key Highlights

7+ years in scalable distributed systems.
Expert in AWS and GCP migrations.
Proven track record in live-streaming technologies.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-focused Software Engineer with expertise in scalable systems and cloud migrations.

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Skills

Core Skills

Amazon Web Services (aws)C++PythonJavaGo (programming Language)Kubernetes

Other Skills

MySQLGraphQLNode.jsVert.xJavaScriptFFmpegGCPRedisgRPCPostgreSQLUnityData StructuresAngularAlgorithmsMachine Learning

About

Software Engineer with 7+ years of experience designing and building scalable distributed system. Have extensive experience in building things from scratch, and keeping it maintainable and scalable over years. Have worked in both Platform and Product Engineering. Worked on scale ranging from thousands to millions of users. Worked at FanCode (by Dream11) building Sports OTT and E-Commerce was part of both platform and product team. Worked at Weave as a Software Engineer (SE2) building large scale distributed systems using Golang, gRPC, PostgreSQL Worked at Infosys as a Full Stack Developer built products using Nodejs, Angular, Python

Experience

6 yrs 8 mos

Total Experience

1 yr 4 mos

Average Tenure

2 yrs 1 mo

Current Experience

Fancode

3 roles

Software Development Engineer 3

Jul 2025 – Present · 11 mos · On-site

Software Development Engineer 2

May 2024 – Jul 2025 · 1 yr 2 mos · On-site

Software Development Engineer 2

May 2022 – Jan 2024 · 1 yr 8 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · On-site

▪ Developed an automated live-stream video monitoring and alerting system that checked for issues like blank frames, blurry frames, stuck frames, and audio drops. This system used Python for image processing and FFmpeg for video processing.
▪ Built a user personalisation framework that generated personalised home feeds for each user.
▪ Responsible for building multiple live-streaming feature such as real-time user clip generation, 50 fps video enhancement and others resulting in better viewership experience
▪ Responsible for migrating production services and databases from AWS to GCP with 99.99% uptime. Tasks include building a migration plan, establishing guardrails to prevent downtime, and creating a monitoring dashboard and metrics. This also included Kubernetes migration from EC2
▪ Identified bottlenecks, optimized code, SQL queries, and Redis, and migrated GraphQL and HTTP frameworks to achieve a concurrency of 140 million RPM in an end-to-end load test.
▪ Created a session limiting service using Java (Vertx) and Redis to limit the number of concurrent live videos streamed by a single user account, leading to a 30% reduction in password-sharing piracy.
▪ Built CI/CD pipeline for all the services(Java/Python/JavaScript) using github workflow for faster build and deployment time resulting in better developer experience.
▪ I was responsible for setting the hiring process, onboarding, and mentoring multiple SDE-1.

PythonMySQLGraphQLNode.jsVert.xAmazon Web Services (AWS)+2

Amazon

Software Development Engineer 2

Jan 2024 – May 2024 · 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Worked on Purchase, Install and Download flow of Apps from Appstore for the new Vega OS

C++Amazon Web Services (AWS)Java

Weave hq

Software Engineer 2

Aug 2021 – Apr 2022 · 8 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Worked on developing services using Golang, gRPC, Kubernetes etc.
As part of Phone Experience Team I helped redesigning the architecture of multiple phone system components that helped better manage the IVR phone system for customers that spanned multiple locations (These were initially designed for single location customers).
Implemented audit logging to let customers view their activity history.

KubernetesGo (Programming Language)gRPCPostgreSQL

Infosys

Specialist Programmer (Full Stack Developer)

Aug 2019 – Jul 2021 · 1 yr 11 mos · Pune District, Maharashtra, India

▪ Test Environment Management System
▪ Implemented distributed API Rate Limiting using NodeJS, Redis
▪ Designed and Developed Condition Monitoring System for Solar Farm using Python, Angular, Spring Boot, Postgresql.
▪ Helped Operational Managers maintain the resources effectively
▪ Worked on building Talent Hiring Platform for Apple using Angular 8

Stealth

Software Engineer - Founding

Mar 2019 – Aug 2019 · 5 mos · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

Bootstrapped a camera renting/lending e-commerce platform.
Built a monolith backend service to handle users, products and orders flow in Nodejs and Mongodb.
Built the Content Management Portal to handle the products details using HTML, CSS & Javascript.
Closed because of lack of funding and initial cash burn.