Rajat Saxena

Director of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India7 yrs 10 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Proven leader in managing high-performing engineering teams.
  • Expertise in machine learning and fraud detection systems.
  • Strong background in distributed systems and backend engineering.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and SaaS expert with a strong focus on machine learning and distributed systems.

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Skills

Core Skills

Machine LearningFraud DetectionDistributed SystemsInfrastructure

Other Skills

A/B TestingAlgorithmsApache KafkaAutomationBackend FrameworkBackend ToolingCC++CassandraCompute ServicesCronCryptographyData PipelinesData Science ModelsData Structures

About

Software Engineering Manager, experienced in managing distributed high performing teams working on critical distributed systems and driving business impact through ML innovation.

Experience

7 yrs 10 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 7 mos
Average Tenure
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Current Experience

Meta

Software Engineering Manager

Sep 2025Present · 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Booking.com

2 roles

Engineering Manager

Promoted

Jun 2023Aug 2025 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

  • Managing a 14 people charter spanning across 3 pods :
  • Fraud Platform Engineering : backend tooling and infra for fraud detection and prevention
  • Fraud Networks : graph based ML feature engineering system
  • Fraud Data Platform : data pipelines and workflows
  • The stakeholders include product, engineering, ML and operations people across 5 fraud verticals (payments, marketing, suppliers, accounts takeover, trust & safety)
Machine LearningData PipelinesGraph-based MLFraud DetectionBackend Tooling

Senior Software Engineer & Interim Enginering Manger

Mar 2022May 2023 · 1 yr 2 mos · Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

  • Tier 0 critical platform services for fraud detection and prevention

Prepfully

Industry Mentor

Jul 2021Jun 2025 · 3 yrs 11 mos

  • Mock interviews of technical coding and system design rounds

Facebook

Software Engineer

Sep 2020Feb 2022 · 1 yr 5 mos · London, England, United Kingdom

  • Engineer in LogDevice team, which maintains a highly available distributed storage system.
  • Responsibilities included designing and implementing logs metadata storage service, driving the deployment process, leading SEV management efforts, and a few security and efficiency projects.
  • Also was an Intern Manager in Q3 2021 where my job was to onboard, mentor and manage a SWE intern.
Distributed SystemsLogDeviceSecurity Projects

Coding ninjas india

Industry Mentor

May 2020Oct 2022 · 2 yrs 5 mos

  • 1. Conducting mock interviews of coding rounds
  • 2. Taking live webinars on Introduction to Competitive Programming, Roadmap for Data Structures and Algorithms, SDE Interview Preparation
  • 3. Reviewing new courses on System Design, Low Level Design

Booking.com

2 roles

Software Engineer

Promoted

Jun 2018Aug 2020 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

  • Working on engineering end to end infrastructure of scalable, robust & secure compute services for powering graph features in detection and prevention of payments fraud (stolen CC and chargeback), incentives fraud, fake accounts and partner fraud (fake property).
InfrastructureCompute ServicesGraph Features

Junior Software Engineer

Jun 2017May 2018 · 11 mos · Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

  • Worked on:
  • 1. Personalizing search experience of users on our core product using data science models
  • 2. Building machine learning services for automated feature engineering in both online and offline world
  • 3. Optimizing jobs and setting up monitoring and alerting on our A/B Experiment Tool batch pipeline
Machine LearningData Science ModelsA/B Testing

Amazon

Software Development Engineering Intern

Jun 2016Jul 2016 · 1 mo · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

  • Worked on automation of a framework to perform load tests for different client and server host configurations and aggregate performance metrics like latency, throughput and hardware utilization, to predict scaling estimates
AutomationLoad TestingPerformance Metrics

Shipsy.in

ML Engineering Intern

Feb 2016Mar 2016 · 1 mo · Gurgaon, India

  • Worked in the Algorithms and Intelligence team on developing a backend framework to improve the performance accuracy as well as efficiency of geo tagging of places by Google Geocoding API
Backend FrameworkGeo TaggingGoogle Geocoding API

Paralleldots

ML Engineering Intern

Dec 2015Jan 2016 · 1 mo · Noida Area, India

  • Worked in the Deep Learning team on news articles recommendation and app reviews classification using doc2vec (paragraph vector) embeddings for representing the context in documents/sentences
Deep LearningRecommendation Systems

Education

Delhi College of Engineering

Bachelor’s Degree — Computer Engineering

Jan 2013Jan 2017

Hillwoods Academy

Jan 2000Jan 2013

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