Summary
Rahul Thakur is a cloud-focused Lead Member of Technical Staff with 9 years of experience building scalable, cost-efficient infrastructure and data platforms across Salesforce, Amazon, Informatica, and Capgemini. He has led production deployments of Apache Druid on AWS EKS, designed multi-tenant S3 and multi-cell sharding architectures, and drove a $1M annual savings through UltraWarm warm storage design. At Amazon he shipped media-processing services for Alexa, cloud asset management, and device-aware features like motion-detected power optimization, reflecting a strong product-to-infra mindset. Trained at IIT Roorkee, he blends deep systems and database expertise with automation and microservices design, and maintains interests in machine learning, Python, and chatbots that inform practical ML-enabled tooling. Notably, he combines low-level performance tuning experience with large-scale operational resilience work, making him effective at both optimization and platform-level architecture.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Technology (MTech), Information Technology, 7.47, Master of Technology (MTech), Information Technology, 7.47 at IIT Roorkee
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science, First Devision, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science, First Devision at Shri Vaishnav Institute of Technology and Science, Indore
English