Rajat Jain
Staff Software Engineer at Nykaa
Delhi, India
Summary
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Top SchoolRajat Jain is a Staff Software Engineer with 9 years' experience optimizing high-throughput systems and reducing latency across large-scale ecommerce and media platforms. He currently drives system and process optimization and observability at Nykaa after building resilient order and sales engines at Fynd and Wakefit that handled millions of daily transactions. A hands-on engineer who digs under the hood for micro-optimizations, Rajat contributed to core open-source projects including phpMyAdmin, GNOME, Mozilla and Python libraries—work that spans frontend fixes to deep backend improvements. His background includes search and data-at-scale challenges at Naukri and Gaana, giving him practical expertise in performance-sensitive search and indexing for terabyte-scale datasets. Rajat holds a BTech and MTech in Computer Science from IIT Kanpur and is actively pursuing contributions to larger core projects like MariaDB, Apache and Linux. Colleagues describe him as patient with detail-oriented persistence—comfortable spending hundreds of hours to squeeze out fractional gains that compound at scale.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
Hindi, English
Stackoverflow
2,014reputation
77kreached
200answers
20questions
pandas
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Github Skills (24)
debug10
javascript10
back-end-development10
mysql10
phpmyadmin10
php10
sql10
forum10
backend10
pandas9
front-end-development9
html9
refactoring8
css8
refactor8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
mybb/mybb
Jun 2020 - Nov 2020
MyBB is a free and open source forum software.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 23 commits, 19 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Rajat contributed to the MyBB forum software by implementing features, fixing bugs, and refactoring code. Their work included parsing attachments, handling errors in search functionality, and addressing issues related to thread view modes and reputation calculation. They also made changes to error messages in the private messaging system and optimized moderation code for efficiency.
cmsmysqlforumphpsqlite
phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin
Jul 2020 - Nov 2020
A web interface for MySQL and MariaDB
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:12 reviews, 12 commits, 19 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Rajat primarily contributed to the phpMyAdmin project by implementing new features and fixing bugs, focusing on both the frontend and backend. Their contributions included adding search functionality to the Routines section, enhancing the editor with scrollable features, and fixing an async routine export issue. Furthermore, the user addressed frontend issues related to table header stickiness using the Stickyfill polyfill and implemented cookie configuration for SameSite.
mysqlweb-interfaceweb-appphpdatabase
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