Rahul Modpur
Chief Executive Officer at Xalary
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolRahul Modpur is a cloud-native enthusiast and CEO based in Bengaluru with 7 years of hands-on experience building scalable backend systems and platform products. He has led migrations and performance improvements—such as moving 50+ tables from Cassandra to Postgres and cutting API P99 latencies from ~1s to 200–300ms—while owning Golang services across Azure and AWS. Rahul’s recent work spans Postgres-as-a-platform efforts and contributions to Neon (a well-known serverless Postgres project), where he fixed core backend and DevOps issues and added observability for WAL redo processes using Rust and rigorous testing. He combines product leadership with deep implementation skills in databases, microservices, and container orchestration, and has a track record of shipping developer-facing tooling like drag-and-drop Docker/Kubernetes manifest builders. An IIT Delhi alumnus, he pairs academic rigor with startup grit and a pragmatic focus on reliability, performance, and operational excellence.
7 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi)
Github Skills (10)
databases10
rust10
postgresql10
database10
devops9
testing9
serverless9
regex8
dockers3
docker3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
neondatabase/neon
Feb 2023 - May 2025
Neon: Serverless Postgres. We separated storage and compute to offer autoscaling, code-like database branching, and scale to zero.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & DevOps Engineer
Backend Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:8 reviews, 11 PRs, 34 comments in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Rahul primarily contributed to the backend functionality and operational aspects of the Neon serverless Postgres database. Their work included fixing bugs related to logging, version parsing, and tenant detachment. They also made changes to infrastructure-related tasks such as the status command and adding a metric for WAL redo processes. Furthermore, the user demonstrated expertise in Rust, database operations, and testing within the Neon codebase.
autoscalingdatabasepostgresqlserverlesspostgres
rmodpur/neon
Feb 2023 - Dec 2023
Neon: Serverless Postgres. We separated storage and compute to offer autoscaling, branching, and bottomless storage.
Contributions:91 pushes, 20 branches in 9 months
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