Rupesh Thakur

Software Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India11 yrs experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in scalable cloud-based architectures.
Led significant cloud governance initiatives at PayPal.
Proven track record in enhancing developer productivity.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and E-commerce architect with expertise in cloud infrastructure and governance.

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Skills

Core Skills

JavaSpring Boot

Other Skills

AlgorithmsAngularJSBig DataCC++CSSContinuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)Core JavaData StructuresDesign PatternsDockerGo (Programming Language)HTMLHTML5Hadoop

About

I focus on designing and implementing scalable cloud-based architectures and solutions that empower teams with productivity while maintaining robust governance standards.

Experience

11 yrs

Total Experience

3 yrs 8 mos

Average Tenure

6 yrs 9 mos

Current Experience

Paypal

4 roles

Staff Software Engineer

Promoted

Dec 2025 – Present · 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

Architecture, Cloud Infrastructure and Adoption of AI Technologies at PayPal

MTS 1

Apr 2024 – Dec 2025 · 1 yr 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

Designed a rule based Cloud Governance as a service . Worked with the team to bring the idea to realization. This service set the foundation cloud strategy for PayPal easing the
developers to use any technology, while keeping PayPal Security and Governance in place
Designed a GKE, Helm, ArgoCD based generic deployment template for all the services, and developed Jenkins Library for Continuous deployment using the template, increasing the developer productivity multi-fold in the Org

Software Engineer III

Aug 2022 – Mar 2024 · 1 yr 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

Designed & developed a Golang library and CLI featuring cloud based logging, monitoring, tracing, auto-recovery, authentication acting as a base for all Golang services in the Org
Lead & Mentored a team of six developing services and SDKs for all PayPal applications for secure and governed use of Google Cloud Platform

Software Engineer II

Jul 2019 – Jul 2022 · 3 yrs · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

Lead the Geo China initiative for PayPal Checkout , taking E2E ownership of design, development, testing and delivery along with mentoring the Team
Migrated a critical service (having 30 APIs + 100M daily traffic) under tight timelines from Java7 + Spring based traditional framework to Java8 + Spring Boot + Jax-RS based new framework, reducing the latency of APIs by 40%
Improved consistency in our APIs by developing a framework for request validation and error handling

Go (Programming Language)JavaSpring Boot

Walmart labs

Engineer III - Development

May 2018 – May 2019 · 1 yr · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Developed and enhanced the Data pipelines of the Online Grocery Search team to create aggregated business metrics dashboard from the raw data stream
Introduced expanded assortment in Online Grocery to bring the complete merchandise Catalog to index. Modified the complete Data pipeline and machine learnt signals to club variants of the same product in a single abstract view

Amadeus labs

2 roles

Senior Software Engineer

Apr 2018 – May 2018 · 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Designed and Developed a chat-bot for booking air tickets over a chat integrating with Facebook Messenger for chat, Google DialogFlow for Contextual NLP, and in-house travel APIs. Handled concurrency, message queues, and other various design patterns.

Software Engineer

Dec 2014 – Mar 2018 · 3 yrs 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Implemented the migration of a product from WebLogic on Windows to JBoss on Linux and OpenShift. Worked as single developer from Bangalore in a scrum team with other members outside India, collaborated through daily stand-up calls
Did a deep dependency analysis of the Maven project followed by clean-up. This helped reduce the war artifact size 6 folds, and the total build time 10 folds. Modified the build to deploy docker images.
Wrote reusable Jenkins Pipeline Code in groovy for CI/CD
Worked as an Individual Contributor, Full Stack Engineer in an agile team, clearing requirements for the user stories with product manager and merchandising team through calls. Used TDD approach to develop user stories with their test cases written before development