Rahul Kumar is a Senior Software Engineer 2 based in Bengaluru with 12 years in the industry and 8 years focused on fintech and distributed backend systems. He has led teams of 6–8 engineers and owned architecture for high-throughput transaction platforms that handled over 600K+ daily orders and launched a 0→1 Mutual Funds product. Comfortable across microservices, queues, Redis caching and cloud deployments, he has a track record of improving latency, reducing bundle sizes, and shipping production systems from prototype to scale. Prior work includes building a queue-based screenshot-to-GIF service and an Android app with 10k+ downloads, showing both backend depth and product-minded engineering. Active on GitHub and StackOverflow, Rahul blends hands-on coding with architecture leadership and a bias for pragmatic, measurable performance improvements.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Central Academy
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Lovely Professional University
Contributions:38 commits, 2 PRs, 34 pushes in 1 year 1 month
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