Pulkit Kathuria
Vice Manager at Rakuten
Chiyoda, Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolPulkit Kathuria is a seasoned engineering leader with 14 years of experience, currently serving as Vice Manager at Rakuten in Chiyoda, Japan. He has progressed through technical and managerial roles from test engineering to tech lead and engineering manager, combining hands-on backend development with team and product leadership. His academic background in AI and NLP (double master's) complements a practical focus on building developer-facing tools, evidenced by contributions to rakutentech/laravel-request-docs where he improved API documentation, UI, try-out features, SQL logging and OpenAPI 3.0 support. Known for bridging research-minded problem solving with production-grade engineering, he excels at turning complex API and backend requirements into usable developer tooling. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic architecture decisions and mentoring engineers through growth into leadership.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Double Master's degree, Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Double Master's degree, Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing at 北陸先端科学技術大学院大学 / Japan Advanced Institute of Science and TechnologyMaster's degree, Information Technology, Master's degree, Information Technology at Central Queensland University
English, Japanese
Github Skills (13)
php10
api10
laravel10
openapi10
apidoc10
laravel-mix10
api-design9
restful-api9
rest-api9
api-rest9
vue-jsx8
sql8
vue8
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
rakutentech/laravel-request-docs
Aug 2021 - Dec 2022
Effortless API documentation tool for Laravel applications. Swagger alternative.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:32 releases, 50 reviews, 120 commits in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Pulkit primarily focused on enhancing the API documentation tool for Laravel applications. Their contributions involved adding features for hiding specific routes, integrating an API dashboard, and improving the user interface. The user also worked on implementing a try-out feature for the API requests, including the integration of SQL query logging and support for request headers and body. Moreover, the user incorporated open API 3.0.0 support for the tool, allowing for better API documentation generation.
swaggerapiapi-documentation-toolvoyagerphp
kevincobain2000/jProcessing
Mar 2012 - Sep 2020
Japanese Natural Langauge Processing Libraries
Contributions:28 commits, 6 PRs, 5 pushes in 8 years 7 months
japaneselangaugenatural
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