Summary
Hardik Rakholiya is a Staff Software Engineer with 9 years of experience building scalable, high-performance distributed systems and platform services, currently at Walmart Global Tech after leading platform engineering at Blend. He has designed and shipped production-critical features such as a feature-flagging service managing 600+ flags for 400+ customers, customer grouping APIs, and data purge tooling, and improved search ingestion accuracy and CI/CD efficiency. Comfortable across Java, Python, and TypeScript, he combines deep CS fundamentals (master’s focus on distributed systems and databases) with hands-on cloud, container, and observability expertise (AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka, DataDog). Hardik is often the technical lead on cross-cutting initiatives—debugging race conditions, migrating to Python3, and removing Jenkins/Ansible dependencies to cut costs—demonstrating both systems-level design and pragmatic delivery. Based in Rogers, Arkansas, he pairs independent problem-solving with strong communication skills and a proven ability to rapidly adopt new tools to close operational gaps.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Electronics and Instrumentation Engg., Bachelor's Degree, Electronics and Instrumentation Engg. at BITS Pilani
Master's degree, Computer Science, 3.73/4.0, Master's degree, Computer Science, 3.73/4.0 at Indiana University Bloomington
English, Hindi