Rajat Arora is a Staff Software Engineer in San Francisco with nine years of experience building resilient, high-throughput distributed systems across fintech and social platforms. He has driven platform-level work at Ripple and Twitter and previously led the design and automation of a 40+ microservice ecosystem at Ellie Mae, improving performance and resilience with AWS, Spring Boot, Kafka, and Terraform. Comfortable in on-call rotations and incident triage, he blends hands-on coding (Scala, Java, Python, Node) with infrastructure-as-code and observability practices to reduce operational risk. Rajat also mentors engineers and has a track record of pragmatic innovation—winning an internal hackathon for a reverse-auction platform—while holding an MS in Computer Science from San Francisco State University.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS), Computer Science, GPA: 3.96, Master of Science (MS), Computer Science, GPA: 3.96 at San Francisco State University
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Science at SRM University
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