Summary
Rahul Thankachan is a Principal Member of Technical Staff based in California with 11 years of experience designing and optimizing high-performance, highly available data-intensive backend systems. He has driven scalability and performance initiatives across large platforms at Yahoo and Ellie Mae and continues to shape distributed systems and security-focused networking work at Illumio and Oracle. Rahul specializes in microservices, caching strategies, messaging systems, and network load reduction, and pairs deep system architecture expertise with hands-on mentoring of engineering teams. He also explores ML and LLMs application areas, bringing curiosity about how AI can augment backend services—an interest rooted in both production-grade systems and early mobile/IoT work from his internship days.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Army Public School, Udhampur
Master’s Degree, Computer Science, Master’s Degree, Computer Science at University of Southern California
High School, High School at Mount St. Mary's, Delhi Cantt
Bachelor's Degree, Information Technology, Bachelor's Degree, Information Technology at Vellore Institute of Technology
Army Public School, Ferozepur