Rohan Kalra

Software Engineer

London, England, United Kingdom17 yrs 4 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Expert in building AI-driven integrity systems.
  • Proven track record in enhancing payment reliability.
  • Strong leadership in cross-functional technical strategies.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and SaaS expert with strong software development and cloud computing skills.

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Skills

Core Skills

Software DevelopmentCloud ComputingWeb Development

Other Skills

JavaScriptPHPC++SQLCore JavaAndroidJavaData StructuresOOPCEclipseJSPRuby on RailsMVCCodeigniter

About

Passionate Engineer with experience in directing mission critical decisions to improve reliability of systems and expanding state of the art of Similarity. 11+ years of hands on experience in development of distributed systems, strategizing initiatives for launch acceleration, and operational excellence. Excels at building consensus with leadership and providing mentorship to junior and senior engineers. Holds a bachelor degree in Information Technology from Delhi College of Engineering.

Experience

17 yrs 4 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 10 mos
Average Tenure
5 yrs 4 mos
Current Experience

Meta

Staff Software Engineer

Feb 2021Present · 5 yrs 4 mos · Greater London · Hybrid

  • Building the trust and safety autonomous integrity investigation pipeline: Engineered AI agents that operate 24/7 across multiple Trust & Safety domains to continuously discover enforcement errors, diagnose root causes, and propose fixes with zero human intervention.
  • Architected the organization's most-utilized investigation agent: Enabled investigators to query enforcement decisions using natural language, establishing the foundational AI architecture that other teams now build upon.
  • Previously
  • Led the technical strategy for scaling similarity-based detection: Partnered cross-functionally across content representation, large-scale indexing, data privacy, and content policy to reduce harmful content prevalence and maintain Meta’s position at the forefront of CSAM detection and removal.
  • Built comprehensive governance tooling: Developed solutions across the entire integrity enforcement stack to systematically identify and reduce enforcement errors.
JavaScriptPHPC++SQLCore JavaAndroid+35

Microsoft

Senior Software Engineer

Jul 2020Jan 2021 · 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Part of the Azure Synapse team, an analytics service that brings together data integration, enterprise data warehousing, and big data analytics.
  • Worked on the control plane component responsible for provisioning infrastructure as a service.
  • Delivered garbage collection of partner infrastructure, reliability and latency improvements.
  • Delivered measurement and improvement of reliability platform capabilities from 98% to 99% reliability by working with 10+ dependencies that are provisioned.
AzureInfrastructure as a ServiceReliabilityLatency ImprovementsCloud Computing

Amazon

5 roles

Senior Software Development Engineer

Jun 2018Jun 2020 · 2 yrs

  • Part of the Consumer Payments organisation that supports Payments as a platform. Leading the effort to improve Reliability of payments and improving the architecture to support 1 trillion dollar money platform.
  • Defined a technical strategy to be executed in 2020 to achieve 4 nines of Availability covering key risks and optimizations across the 10+ platform components. This involves a fallback for payment processing system, (which would automatically kick-in the event of an internal or external payments outage), best practices adoption across 20+ partner teams and reduction of outage duration through anomaly detection across the entire decoupled architecture.
  • Data Localization: Defined technical strategy for Payments to adhere to RBI regulations while enabling Amazon to move their critical data (Credit Cards) from their internal secure zone to Public Cloud i.e. AWS Lumos, a new offering that supports storage and transmission of critical data on the Cloud. Delivered the ability for Amazon’s Wallet to support asynchronous copy over of 170M credit cards hosted in Dublin to Bombay during payment transaction processing. Once launched, reduced impact of latency regression caused by storage in BOM by 100 ms through transient storage of data in Dublin.
  • Bank of Amazon: Technical lead for Balance Tracker Service i.e. the Bank of Amazon which supports generic ledger like functionality to support use cases for Amazon Pay Balance (45M transactions a day), Seller Services (Disbursements to external sellers – 70M transactions a day) and JPPoints (Points Platform which supports burst traffic of up-to 12K TPS).
Payments ArchitectureReliabilityAnomaly DetectionSoftware Development

Senior Software Development Engineer

Promoted

Oct 2017Jun 2018 · 8 mos

  • Worked on Scan and Pay Japan and Improving Availability of the Amazon Pay Platform.
  • Enhanced a client side fallback that used a static ML model to optimistically fulfill a transaction in case authorization was not approved within 7 seconds. This improved overall availability from 99.9% to 99.97%.
Availability ImprovementClient-Side FallbackMachine LearningSoftware Development

Software Development Engineer II

Promoted

Oct 2015Sep 2017 · 1 yr 11 mos

  • Working on Amazon Pay Country Expansion. Amazon Pay is a next generation payments solution to allow any merchant to use Amazon Account as a means to purchase items online.
  • Delivered a technical strategy and architecture on how to accelerate launches by reduction of work done in Refunds and A-Z claims team by 50 weeks per year. Bridged gaps in multiple teams in Amazon for supporting country expansion to FR, IT and ES. This involved reducing touch-points in 10+ components across Fraud, Chargeback, and Seller Central platforms which reduced country expansion effort by 60% (9 months to 2 months).
Country ExpansionTechnical StrategyFraud PreventionSoftware Development

Software Development Engineer

Oct 2014Sep 2015 · 11 mos

  • Delivered a single page checkout experience for the earlier version of Amazon Pay launched in India for 3rd party merchants. This allowed a reduction of abandonment of customers by 10%.
Checkout ExperienceUser ExperienceWeb Development

Software Development Engineer

Aug 2013Sep 2014 · 1 yr 1 mo

  • Delivered reverse-logistics and return label printing capabilities for the Retail Business. Delivered Return Transportation Service which migrated key functionality from legacy monolithic service into key APIs. Once launched, this capability was integrated as a library into the Amazon Fulfillment systems in order to print the return label address on each item that Amazon delivers to customer.
Reverse LogisticsAPI DevelopmentSoftware Development

Sap

Associate Developer

Jun 2012Aug 2013 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Development of the Desktop Office Integration component for SAP applications as a part of the IMS Controls team. The component allows customers to access SAP modules via Microsoft applications.
Desktop Office IntegrationSAP Applications

Cadence design systems

Systems in Processing Intern

Dec 2011Jan 2012 · 1 mo · Noida Area, India

  • Developed web component for porting OrCAD’s project management functionality to a cloud based system using GWT. The component supports both hosted and browser mode.
  • Ported Sahi, a web automation tool for debugging OrCAD’s cloud components.
  • Development of an OrCAD automation framework to provide end users with recording of test cases.
Web DevelopmentGame Development

Delhi college of engineering

Head,Web Management - IEEE Student Council

Jul 2011May 2012 · 10 mos · New Delhi Area, India

  • Management and co-ordination of fest events for the year 2011-12
Integrated Voice ResponseAutomated Portal Development

One97 communications limited

Software Intern

Jun 2011Jul 2011 · 1 mo · Noida Area, India

  • Developed Automated Portal based on Integrated Voice Response using VXML.

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Web Developer

Aug 2008Jul 2011 · 2 yrs 11 mos

  • Developed Mist, an online competition whose aim is to solve puzzles, brainteasers and other challenges posed at every level. It was developed as a Facebook application and received more than 5000 registrations.
  • Developed Bulls n Bears, an online stock market simulation game. The event simulated a real market situation where the prices of shares varied based upon the number of transactions in the virtual market.
  • Developed Panache, an online quizzing game where the participants had to answer the questions within a specific time limit and Encryptopedia, a LAN based quizzing game using PHP, MySQL and JavaScript.
  • Conducted several workshops on PHP and SQL

Education

Delhi College of Engineering

B. Tech — Information Technology

Jan 2008Jan 2012

Delhi Public School - R. K. Puram

CBSE — PCM with Computer Science

Jan 2006Jan 2008

St. Columbas School

CBSE

Jan 1994Jan 2006

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