Gahan Rakholia
Lead Engineer at Rapido
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolGahan Rakholia is a hands-on engineering leader with 11 years of experience building and operating high-throughput payment and finance systems, most recently shaping delivery practices as Lead Engineer at Rapido and now exploring new challenges at a stealth startup. He combines deep production experience—improving observability and ensuring four-nines uptime on distributed payment platforms—with strong delivery discipline, having introduced micro-feedback cycles, pair-programming and XP practices to boost predictability. His background spans ledger, loans and accounting systems, payment gateway and ERP integrations, and standardizing DevOps with Infrastructure as Code. Comfortable negotiating between finance, ops and end-users, he excels at turning complex, regulated requirements into auditable, reliable systems. Known on GitHub as a "tacit monomaniac coder," he brings focused curiosity and a product-minded engineering approach from Bengaluru.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at SRM UniversityKendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan
English, Hindi, Gujarati, Japanese
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Github Skills (93)
realtime10
authentication10
backend10
seo10
java10
apache-nifi9
golang9
coverage9
eclipse9
png9
vuepress9
jacoco9
apache9
morph8
language-server-protocol8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
HandOfGod94/kafkatail
Jun 2021 - Dec 2022
tail kafka logs from any topic, any wire format on local console
Contributions:1 review, 221 commits, 17 PRs in 1 year 5 months
golangwirewire-formatconsoletail
HandOfGod94/jacoco-cov-badge-maven-plugin
Sep 2018 - Jan 2020
Generate High Quality SVG, PNG and JPG Coverage badges locally from jacoco report as part of build
Contributions:111 commits, 28 PRs, 100 pushes in 1 year 4 months
jacocosvgjpgreportlocally
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