Summary
Rajat Goel is a versatile software engineer with a decade of experience building high-performance C++ and Python systems across AI, distributed messaging, and backend services. Currently at Meta, he architects scalable, cross-platform messaging infrastructure and universal server brokers, after leading AI agent and voice-driven automation work at IBM’s watsonx that shipped agentic workflows and production voice microservices. At Google and Autodesk he delivered cost-saving model training pipelines and performance-sensitive native C++ frameworks, respectively, demonstrating a blend of systems engineering and ML/product impact that reduced costs and sped up user workflows. He combines hands-on low-level optimization with orchestration of complex, multi-client deployments and has a track record of turning research-grade models into robust production tools. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he pairs an MS in Computer Science with practical experience across large tech stacks and a knack for reducing operational complexity through reusable tooling.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science at University of Southern California
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer Engineering at Aligarh Muslim University
Intermediate Physics Chemistry Mathematics Computer Science, Intermediate Physics Chemistry Mathematics Computer Science at Delhi Public School, Aligarh
High School, High School at Our Lady of Fatima, Aligarh
English, Hindi, Urdu