Summary
Raj Geriya is a Principal Lead - Backend with 11 years of experience building high-performance, scalable backend systems and leading teams from Bengaluru. He has led major migrations and cost-optimization efforts—most notably a zero-downtime migration of 700+ million records to MongoDB Atlas and a 60% cloud cost reduction—while designing API proxies and event-driven consumers that handle thousands of RPM. Comfortable coding in Golang and Node.js, Raj blends hands-on engineering with architecture leadership, having chaired architecture reviews and mentored small teams to deliver production-grade recommendation engines and real-time services. An empathetic technologist and open-source enthusiast, he pairs technical rigor with strong product collaboration and a knack for practical solutions. Outside work he’s a hobby guitarist, part-time chef and proud cat dad, traits that reflect a creative, detail-oriented approach to engineering.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (BTech) with specialization in big data analytics, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (BTech) with specialization in big data analytics, Computer Engineering at Ganpat University
Diploma in computer engineering, Computer Engineering, Diploma in computer engineering, Computer Engineering at Nirma University
English, Hindi, Gujarati