Rahul Chauhan

Director of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India17 yrs experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • 16+ years of experience in engineering leadership.
  • Expert in building high-scalable systems for fintech.
  • Proven track record in mentoring engineering talent.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and E-commerce engineering leader with extensive experience in scalable system architecture.

Contact

rahulchauhanraj@gmail.comLinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

System ArchitectureEngineering ManagementSoftware Development

Other Skills

API IntegrationAPI ManagementAerospikeAgile MethodologiesAgile Project ManagementAlgorithmsApache KafkaAsset Performance ManagementBackend ServicesCachingCassandraCloud OptimizationCoaching & MentoringCommunicationCore Java

About

16+ years of industry experience with an established background in delivering high quality results in a fast paced environment. Have an experience of working on complex problems, building high quality, architecturally sound systems, hands on producing both detailed technical work and high-level architectural designs. Contributed to all parts of the software development and deployment life cycle including design, development, documentation, testing and operations. As Senior Director of Engineering at AngelOne Limited, the key responsibilities include: Providing strategic leadership and vision for the engineering organization, aligning technology initiatives with business goals to drive growth and innovation. Overseeing the design, development, and delivery of critical platform services, including Login, Homepage, Orderpad Validation, Search, Discovery, Watchlist, Third-party integrations, and News. Ensuring the seamless and efficient flow of data to front-end systems across Android, iOS, and Web platforms. Leading multiple engineering teams, fostering a culture of high performance, collaboration, and continuous improvement. Managing resource planning, budgeting, and capacity management to meet project timelines and quality standards. Implementing best practices in software development, code quality, architecture, and system scalability. Collaborating with product management, UX, and business stakeholders to prioritize features and technical investments. Driving innovation by evaluating emerging technologies and integrating suitable solutions to maintain competitive advantage. Overseeing operational excellence through monitoring, incident management, and proactive system maintenance. Mentoring and developing engineering leaders and talent across the organization to build a strong leadership pipeline.

Experience

17 yrs
Total Experience
3 yrs 8 mos
Average Tenure
2 yrs 4 mos
Current Experience

Angel one

Senior Director of Engineering

Feb 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

  • Key Contributions in Building High-Scalable Systems:
  • Login & Authentication Services:
  • Designed and optimized highly available and secure login flows, ensuring seamless authentication for millions of concurrent users.
  • Implemented disaster recovery (DR) setup and failover strategies, reducing downtime and improving resilience.
  • Homepage & Discovery Platform:
  • Architected and scaled backend services powering personalized homepage content and discovery modules, handling millions of daily requests with low latency.
  • Improved caching and query optimization, achieving 40%+ reduction in response time during peak load.
  • Orderpad Validation Service:
  • Owned and delivered end-to-end Orderpad Validation Service, ensuring accurate and real-time validation of trading orders.
  • Integrated with multiple internal/external APIs, enabling fault-tolerant order processing under high concurrency.
  • Search & Watchlist Systems:
  • Delivered global search service with optimizations for faster symbol lookup and content retrieval.
  • Scaled watchlist service to handle large volumes of updates in real time with high consistency guarantees.
  • Third-Party Integrations:
  • Managed integrations with multiple external services (payments, KYC, market data, etc.), ensuring secure communication, reliability, and SLA adherence.
  • Monitored and optimized API performance, minimizing third-party dependency failures.
  • News & Market Feeds:
  • Built and optimized news aggregation service, ingesting large volumes of real-time financial data and delivering curated updates to users with minimal latency.
  • Scalability & Reliability Initiatives:
  • Led AWS cloud cost optimization and DR setups for critical services.
  • Implemented Redis compression, Sonar integration, and observability improvements for high-scale production workloads.
  • Proactively identified bottlenecks through performance testing, driving infra and code-level optimizations.
Login & Authentication ServicesHomepage & Discovery PlatformOrderpad Validation ServiceSearch & Watchlist SystemsThird-Party IntegrationsNews & Market Feeds+3

Walmart global tech india

Senior Engineering Manager

Jul 2018 – Dec 2023 · 5 yrs 5 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Built/contributed to a Gateway for Walmart Fulfilment System which serves more than 6000 stores, more than 100 million events per day, across US, UK, MX, and CA which helps in fulfilling millions of customer orders every day, without losing a single event.
  • Highly available/Kafka-based event-driven eventual consistent system with Hot/Hot deployment in Azure SC/WS with multi nodes cluster and built with in-house auto disaster recovery system and can recover the entire system within 5-10 mins in case of disaster.
Gateway DevelopmentEvent-Driven SystemsDisaster RecoverySystem Architecture

Ge digital

Senior Software Engineer

Jul 2016 – Jul 2018 · 2 yrs · Bangalore

  • Asset Performance Management (APM) from GE Digital makes asset’s operations safer and more reliable while helping to ensure optimal performance at a lower sustainable cost.
  • APM enables intelligent asset strategies that balance three traditionally competing priorities, reducing cost, improving availability and reliability, and managing risk to help optimize your overall asset and operational performance.
  • Design, architecture and development of knowledge management module of APM, which enables customer to get similar cases for a particular case. It provides information’s to the customer about the possible solutions and the risk of the case.
Asset Performance ManagementKnowledge ManagementSoftware Development

Snapdeal

Senior Software Engineer

Aug 2014 – Jul 2016 · 1 yr 11 mos · Gurgaon, India

  • A Data Platform (DP) is a centralized computing system for collecting, integrating and managing large sets of structured and unstructured event data from disparate sources, such as Web, WAP, App, Database transactional logs etc. The event details are logged by data loggers and details are categorized into certain topics. These event topics are passed via certain layers. The events are processed and evaluated. Post that, the result is stored in Kafka, S3, and Aerospike from where it is provided to the user via API layers.
  • Architecture, design and development of Recommendation System and Dataplatform.
  • Resolving intra-team component dependencies i.e. requirement gathering from product team and inter team dependencies i.e. requirement discussions with WEB, WAP, APP and Mobile team.
  • Production deployment of the releases and monitoring production system.
  • Mentored juniors to develop new feature/functionalities and delivering high quality code to production.
Data Platform DevelopmentRecommendation SystemsSoftware Development

Oracle

Senior Applications Engineer

Mar 2009 – Jul 2014 · 5 yrs 4 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

  • Java Developer, Development of features for the Project Fusion - HCM (Human Capital Management).
Java DevelopmentHuman Capital ManagementSoftware Development

Education

Krishna Institute of Engineering & Technology

Master of Computer Applications - MCA — Computer Science

Jan 2006 – Jan 2009

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