Summary
Rahul Patni is an engineering leader with a decade of experience building crypto, fintech, and high-impact product teams from startup to scale in San Francisco. He founded and led Fire (acquired) to protect nearly $1B in assets and raised seed funding, then moved into privacy-focused blockchain work at IF Labs before joining Coinbase. Comfortable shipping both product and infrastructure, Rahul blends systems-level engineering (e.g., compression work at Microsoft) with entrepreneurial grit from roles at Atomic and Ridgeline. He thrives where work and play blur—relentlessly shipping and iterating—and has a track record of turning ambitious crypto security and compliance goals into production systems. Less obvious: he pairs deep technical chops with hands-on crisis-innovation experience, having supported FDNY robotics workflows through civic tech fellowship work.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Engineering at Purdue University
International Baccalaureate High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates, International Baccalaureate High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates at UWC South East Asia
French, Hindi, English