Summary
Amiraj Dhawan is a CTO and founder with 13 years of experience architecting and scaling high-throughput distributed systems, most recently leading Luxe Software after driving DoorDash’s Order Platform from 200k to over 5M orders per day. He combines a minimalist, pragmatic engineering ethos with deep expertise in stream processing, Cassandra at scale, and Spark-based pipelines that supported critical revenue and reporting systems at Yelp and DoorDash. Skilled at orchestrating complex service landscapes and optimizing performance, he has built systems handling 200k requests/sec and the largest Cassandra cluster at Doordash. His background spans full-stack service design, robotics research at IIT-B, and a Cornell MEng, reflecting both practical production rigor and an enduring curiosity for algorithmic and systems-level problems.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Fr. C. Rodrigues Institute of Technology
Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan
Master of Engineering (MEng) Computer Science, Master of Engineering (MEng) Computer Science at Cornell University
English, Hindi, Punjabi