Raounak S.

DevOps Engineer

Germany5 yrs 8 mos experience
AI EnabledAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

  • Expert in Distributed Systems Engineering and Ruby on Rails.
  • Proven track record in scaling high-traffic systems.
  • Strong leadership in mentoring and team development.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-heavy Fullstack Engineer with expertise in SaaS and Cloud Computing.

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Skills

Core Skills

Distributed Systems EngineeringRuby On RailsMicroservicesProduct EngineeringDistributed SystemsSite Reliability EngineeringDatabase ManagementWeb DevelopmentApi Development

Other Skills

Large Language Models (LLM)Google GeminiGoogle Cloud Platform (GCP)WebSocketREST APIsHigh-Level DesignWeb DesignSystem ArchitectureComputer ScienceMetricsPeople ManagementElixirProduct ManagementBack-End Web DevelopmentDatabase Systems

About

I design and build systems that scale. My core strengths are Distributed Systems Engineering, Ruby on Rails, and fast end-to-end product development. Over the years, I’ve built and led solutions across monoliths, microservices, and Kubernetes-based architectures — always with a focus on simplicity, speed, and reliability. I enjoy taking ideas from 0 → 1: • designing architecture • building the first version quickly • solving bottlenecks • improving performance • and keeping the system lean instead of over-engineered My background includes: • MSc in Distributed Systems Engineering • Deutschlandstipendium Scholar • Experience scaling systems using Kubernetes, queues, caching layers, and event-driven patterns • Leading performance improvements in high-traffic, service-oriented platforms • Speaking at international tech conferences and meetups If you’re building something ambitious — especially early-stage — I’d love to connect.

Experience

5 yrs 8 mos
Total Experience
1 yr 1 mo
Average Tenure
1 yr 1 mo
Current Experience

Thrillophilia.com

Lead Software Engineer - DevOps & Infra

May 2025Present · 1 yr 1 mo · Gurugram · On-site

  • Leading development and architecture for new travel products and internal tools at scale, collaborating closely with product and design teams.
  • Redesigned core service modules for better modularity and performance, reducing API latency by over 30%.
  • Guiding a team of engineers across backend (Rails) and DevOps projects, establishing code quality standards and improving deployment workflows.
  • Mentoring junior developers and contributing to hiring efforts, fostering a strong engineering culture aligned with business goals.
Large Language Models (LLM)Google GeminiDistributed SystemsGoogle Cloud Platform (GCP)Ruby on RailsWebSocket+1

Battery smart

2 roles

Principal Software Engineer 2

Oct 2024Apr 2025 · 6 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India · On-site

REST APIsHigh-Level DesignProduct EngineeringWeb DesignSystem ArchitectureComputer Science+11

Principal Software Engineer

Aug 2023Oct 2024 · 1 yr 2 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India · On-site

  • Owned a data pipeline serving 2 lakhs events/minute for critical operations.
  • Responsible for the reliability of a micro-service based software managing approx 1 lakh+ assets, and doing approx 40K transactions per day.
  • I lead communication with external vendors and 3rd party software integration.
  • Inspired by the book ”An Elegant Puzzle: System Engineering Management”, trying to build an engineering culture and streamline the development cycle.
  • Led the team of 11 SDEs in the design and architecture of the features on application, network, DevOps and database levels. PS: I still code features, sometimes.
  • Implemented partitioning in Pinot (used for OLAP) to reduce the SQL query time and faster analytics.
  • Identified and fixed performance bottleneck (in network) for Redis, which enabled business to know the
  • latest information about its assets.
REST APIsHigh-Level DesignProduct EngineeringAmazon Web Services (AWS)Web DesignSystem Architecture+18

Ibm

Distributed System Engineer | Thesis

Dec 2022Jun 2023 · 6 mos · Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany · Remote

  • Building(+ Maintaining) Database as a Service (DBaaS) for IBM cloud. Primarily focusing on MongoDB.
  • Handling the unpredicted scale of business giants like American airlines among 1000+ database instances, distributed globally.
Site Reliability EngineeringGo (Programming Language)Computer ScienceRubyObject-Oriented Programming (OOP)Business Intelligence (BI)+5

Taledo

Senior Software Engineer

Mar 2022Nov 2022 · 8 mos · Berlin, Germany · Remote

  • Did Performance improvement of the web-app server by reducing the response time of APIs to
  • under 1 second from 5 seconds. Reduced the total number of Database queries and
  • optimized the remaining SQL queries.
  • Made a process to synchronize data between Elasticsearch and PostgreSQL databases.
  • Implemented consistent usage of Google Analytics across the web app. This includes using
  • the same version of Google Analytics among different components and avoiding multiple
  • renderings of Google Analytics’s script.
  • Fixing flaky test cases in the test suite to make testing more reliable.
  • Added new features to the dashboard used by Admins of software to facilitate the new
  • business requirements.
  • Fixed security vulnerabilities among software dependencies.
  • Understanding features based on business requirements from the Product team and
  • implementing them in the web-app following Agile software development practices.
Ruby on RailsAmazon Web Services (AWS)Computer SciencePostgreSQLObject-Oriented Programming (OOP)Database Systems+3

Cardup

Senior Software Engineer

Dec 2020Sep 2021 · 9 mos · Singapore

  • Worked on defining the architectural layouts, both on the application and database level for public payment API responsible for millions of USD payments annually.
  • Analyzed production incidents and defined followed-up actions
  • Helped the team to come up with new solutions that make applications scalable, high in performance, reliable and secure following OWSAP standards
Ruby on RailsREST APIsProduct EngineeringApplication ArchitectureAmazon Web Services (AWS)Web Design+23

Oncehub

2 roles

Senior Software Development Engineer

Jul 2020Dec 2020 · 5 mos

  • Undertook engineering tasks that were complex in nature and worked on big modules. Defined the architectural layouts, both on the application, API, and database levels.
  • Help the team to come up with a new solution that makes our applications - scalable, high in performance, reliable, and secure.
Ruby on RailsREST APIsNode.jsApplication ArchitectureWeb DesignDocker Products+25

Full Stack Engineer

Jul 2019Jul 2020 · 1 yr

  • Architect full-stack solutions for complex business requirements in a fast-paced environment while optimizing for scalability, performance, concurrency, availability, security, and code quality.
  • Execute a product end to end including API design, DB design, project planning, coding, and fluent communication across multiple teams.
  • I solved scaling problems regarding session management, concurrency(multi-process/multi-threading), DB pool size , in Rails API micro-service having a RabbitMQ worker.
  • Increased the test suite speed by 10 times on CI/CD pipeline, for fast deployment
Ruby on RailsNode.jsProduct EngineeringApplication ArchitectureWeb DesignDocker Products+24

People interactive

Junior Backend Developer Consultant

Jan 2019Mar 2019 · 2 mos · Mumbai Area, India

  • Made a Kafka Consumer in Ruby whose functionality is to manage sessions. This consumer keeps track of every session and stores them in a PostgreSQL database.
  • Deployed this consumer and it's corresponding PostgreSQL database using Docker.
  • This session table is then Joined with events table in the warehouse (Amazon RedShift) to provide better business intelligence
Ruby on RailsApplication ArchitectureRESTful WebServicesComputer SciencekafkaRuby+10

Coupa software

Software Development Intern

Jun 2018Aug 2018 · 2 mos · Pune Area, India

  • Roles and Responsibilities:
  • Contribute to the architecture and the evolution of the Coupa platform
  • Find creative and elegant solutions to complex problems
  • Be an evangelist for Rails and software engineering best practices
  • Work in an agile environment where quick iterations and good feedback are a way of life
  • Continually look for opportunities to improve our platform, process and business
Ruby on RailsApplication ArchitectureRubyPostgreSQLShell ScriptingObject-Oriented Programming (OOP)+7

Namyata

2 roles

Full Stack Developer

Mar 2018Dec 2018 · 9 mos

  • Building a complete end-to-end product for Namyata. Handling all aspects of a product like UI/UX, backend, and DevOps. The product is on microservice architecture, made by Angular and Rails. The deployment is on firebase and AWS for Angular and Rails respectively.
Ruby on RailsApplication ArchitectureRESTful WebServicesRubyPostgreSQLObject-Oriented Programming (OOP)+6

Web Developer Intern

Oct 2017Feb 2018 · 4 mos

  • As a web developer intern my key responsibilities were:
  • 1. Choosing the tech stack for our product, as per current needs and market demand.
  • 2. Design the underlying architecture of the complete product.
  • 3. Implementing the front-end architecture of the product in Angular-4 initially and later updating it to latest Angular-5.
  • 4. Using Angular-Material and Bootstrap for user interface (UI).
  • 5. Making a Progressive Web Application as a client-side application in Angular-5.
  • 6. Designing the architecture of REST API (JSON) and implementing it on Rails-5.
  • 7. Changing the architecture of REST API as per current requirements.
  • 8. Handling the DevOps part for both front-end and back-end application on Firebase and Amazon Web Services.
  • 9. Maintaining both Testing and Production server.
  • 10. Improving the code by applying best practices, and maintaining the industry standards.
Ruby on RailsApplication ArchitectureRESTful WebServicesRubyPostgreSQLObject-Oriented Programming (OOP)+5

Gyandhan

Full Stack Developer Intern

Jun 2017Aug 2017 · 2 mos · New Delhi Area, India

  • I was a full stack Ruby on Rails developer there. While at that position I worked on browser simulation testing, adding content delivery network, and making ruby model of banking
Ruby on RailsjQueryApplication ArchitectureRESTful WebServicesRubyPostgreSQL+6

Aviate software

UI, UX developer Intern

Dec 2016Jan 2017 · 1 mo · Pune, Maharashtra, India

  • Roles and Responsibilities:
  • Developing JavaScript code to read and write data to and from the Firebase Realtime database.
  • Developing JavaScript code for Firebase Authentication
  • Working with JavaScript UI Storytelling frameworks like Intro.js and Angular UI tour.
  • Exploring the Angular Material Library, its usage, functionalities, and limitations.
  • tour.
  • Working with CK-editor
  • Creating single page applications using the Angular Framework

Education

Technische Universität Dresden

MSc Distributed Systems Engineering — Computer Science

Oct 2021May 2023

Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University

B.tech — Computer Science

Jan 2015Jan 2019

Kendriya Vidyalaya

12th CBSE Board — Engineering

Jan 2003Jan 2013

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