Summary
Palina Rawat is a software engineer with 10 years of experience building full-stack systems and data-driven features at scale, most recently contributing to search at Salesforce. At PayPal she led backend architecture for a recommendation engine, redesigned the merchant homepage UI, and cut bundle size to improve performance for a platform with over 6 million daily visits. She pairs strong frontend skills (React, Node) with backend and data expertise (Java, Python, SQL) and has integrated analytics tooling like Amplitude and Braze to drive targeted campaigns and A/B testing. A Caltech AI certification and hands-on NLP work on chatbot augmentation give her a solid machine learning foundation beyond typical web engineering. Known for rapid delivery under tight timelines and mentoring junior engineers, she thrives in high-growth product environments.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
МБОУ ЛИТ "Лицей Информационных Технологий" | Novosibirsk, Russian Federation
California Institute of Technology
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Purdue University
Russian, Hindi