Rajat Goel
Member Of Technical Staff at Thinking Machines Lab
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRajat Goel is a seasoned backend engineer with 12 years of experience building scalable services, currently a Member of Technical Staff in San Jose after an 11-year tenure at Dropbox where he advanced core libraries and storage tooling. He has deep Go expertise—contributing to high-profile Dropbox open-source projects like godropbox and dbxcli—improving database sql builders, byte-array utilities, and modernizing CLI tooling with Go modules and concurrent uploads. His background includes systems work at Facebook and a B.Tech in Computer Science from IIIT, reflecting strong foundations in large-scale infrastructure. Pragmatic and detail-oriented, Rajat combines production-grade engineering with a knack for quietly improving developer ergonomics and core platform reliability.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science And Engineering, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science And Engineering at International Institute of Information Technology
Github Skills (14)
golang10
command-line-interface10
go10
lib10
go-application10
sql10
database-design10
go-language10
cli10
command-line10
testing9
concurrency9
build-automation8
mysql8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
dropbox/godropbox
Jul 2014 - Aug 2022
Common libraries for writing Go services/applications.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:68 commits, 33 PRs, 23 pushes in 8 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Rajat primarily focused on enhancing the `godropbox` repository with new features and improvements related to Go services and applications. Their contributions include the addition of a new `BytesEqual` checker for byte array comparison and subsequent code formatting and documentation. Furthermore, the user implemented new functionality within the database/sqlbuilder package, specifically adding support for `LOCK` and `UNLOCK` statements and serialization/deserialization of `sqltypes`. These changes showcase a focus on improving core libraries and database interactions.
go
dropbox/dbxcli
Jan 2021 - Jan 2022
A scriptable Dropbox CLI for files, shared links, teams, and automation workflows
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 commits, 10 PRs, 8 pushes in 1 year
Contributions summary:Rajat primarily focused on maintaining and improving the `dbxcli` command-line client. Their contributions involved updating the project to use Go modules and the latest Dropbox SDK. They also addressed Go vet errors and improved build processes by setting `GO111MODULE=on` for gox commands. The user updated the project's dependencies and refactored code to use newer versions of the Dropbox SDK, incorporating concurrent upload sessions and other enhancements.
automationclidropboxgolang-applicationcommand-line
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