Rahul Rajaram
Senior Software Development Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Jersey City, New Jersey, United States
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Top SchoolRahul Rajaram is a Senior Software Development Engineer with 11 years of experience building distributed systems, CLIs, and operational tooling, currently leading technical work on AWS Elastic Beanstalk. He joined AWS in 2017 after stints at AppFolio and Uber, and brings deep hands-on expertise spanning APIs, agentic workflows, and cross-platform tooling. Rahul has contributed to making the EB CLI easier to install and develop against—authoring a self-contained installer and cross-OS wrappers—demonstrating a practical focus on developer experience and DevOps automation. With an MS in Computer Science from the University of Arizona and a background in computer engineering from Mumbai, he blends strong academic foundations with production-grade cloud engineering. Based in Jersey City, he combines platform-level thinking with a knack for simplifying complex operational flows for developers.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
The University of ArizonaBachelor of Engineering, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Engineering at University of Mumbai
English, Tamil, Hindi, Kannada
Github Skills (15)
aws10
python10
scripting9
virtualenv9
devops9
bash9
shell9
script9
pip9
sh9
command-line-interface8
powershell8
cli8
command-line8
windows7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
aws/aws-elastic-beanstalk-cli-setup
Apr 2019 - Mar 2020
Simplified EB CLI installation mechanism.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Python Developer
DevOps Engineer & Python DeveloperContributions:1 release, 78 commits, 15 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Rahul primarily focused on improving the EB CLI installation process by developing a self-contained installer script. They added support for installing the EBCLI from source, allowing for testing of development versions. Furthermore, they created Python scripts for installing and managing the EB CLI, including generating wrappers for various operating systems and shells. The user also implemented improvements to the installation process, such as adding colorized text for Windows systems and handling user-triggered installation exits.
mechanismpythonelastic-beanstalkinstallationsimplified
progfan/statropia
Jan 2015 - Feb 2017
Contributions:36 PRs, 35 pushes, 45 branches in 2 years
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