Govind Rai
Senior Backend Engineer at Affirm
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolGovind Rai is a Senior Backend Engineer based in San Francisco with 10 years of experience building scalable APIs and cloud-native systems on Node.js, Python, AWS and Google Cloud. He designs high-throughput services and observability-first architectures—recently authoring Shopping and Affiliate APIs that handle over 50 million requests per day at Affirm. Govind has deep experience across SQL and NoSQL stores (Postgres, MySQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB, Redis) and a track record of converting monoliths into microservices and multi-environment CI/CD workflows to reduce deployment risk. He blends hands-on engineering with strong operational discipline—writing design docs, automated test suites, and runbooks while mentoring junior engineers. Early roles in regulated environments (HIPAA work on digital medicines) and consulting gave him a practical focus on compliance, reliability and measurable outcomes. Outside core engineering, he has a history of building developer-friendly tooling and real-time data pipelines that enable analytics and faster feature iteration.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
GED with Golden State Seal Merit, 4.20 GPA, GED with Golden State Seal Merit, 4.20 GPA at Dublin High SchoolFull Stack Software Engineer, Full Stack Web Development, Full Stack Software Engineer, Full Stack Web Development at Dev BootcampBachelor of Science (B.S.), Business Information Management, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Business Information Management at University of California, Irvine
Hindi, Punjabi, English, Spanish
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Github Skills (200)
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Github contributions (5)
govindrai/LPN-Fitness-App
Feb 2017 - Jun 2019
Helps organizations take charge of their people's well being and promote healthier lifestyles through fitness competitions. Built on Node.js
Contributions:92 PRs, 99 pushes, 72 branches in 2 years 3 months
node-jshealthfitnessjavascriptfitness-tracker
govindrai/CountedIO
Apr 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:192 commits, 39 PRs, 37 pushes in 1 month
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