Rahul Nallappa
Senior Software Engineer at Trava
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolRahul Nallappa is a Senior Software Engineer and founder with nine years of experience building full-stack, data-driven products and leading engineering teams. At Trava he scaled a mobile travel platform to 3,000+ users, architecting a Node.js/AppSync/Lambda backend and React Native/TypeScript frontends while introducing a novel 2D drag-and-drop itinerary UI. He drove a transition from human-authored to retrieval-augmented AI-generated content that expanded recommendations from 2.5K to 100K and cut per-item costs from $25 to $0.05, and boosted Explore engagement by 450% via OpenAI embeddings and OpenSearch. Rahul blends rigorous analytical training (Northwestern: Math, Economics, CS) with product instincts honed at consulting and analytics roles, enabling him to translate complex models into customer value. Now at Capital One, he continues to bridge scalable cloud architectures and AI-enhanced user experiences. Public work and code can be explored at github.com/rnz269, reflecting his hands-on engineering approach.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at DePaul UniversityBachelor’s Degree Mathematics and Economics, Bachelor’s Degree Mathematics and Economics at Northwestern University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (75)
bing10
api10
sdk9
openapi9
javascript8
python8
chat8
java8
authentication7
typescript7
react-native7
sticky7
react7
highlighting6
firebase6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
trava-co/react-native-drax
Feb 2021 - Aug 2023
A drag-and-drop system for React Native
Contributions:1 PR, 38 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years 5 months
reactreact-nativedrag-and-dropdropdrag
rnz269/react_native
Apr 2020 - Jul 2020
fullstack react native
Contributions:10 PRs, 108 pushes, 30 branches in 3 months
react-nativereact-fullstackreactfullstack
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