Rajat Parida
Head Of Engineering at Pliant
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolRajat Parida is a Berlin-based Head of Engineering with 11 years of experience building scalable backend systems across fashion commerce, q-commerce, food delivery, and APM domains. He combines hands-on expertise in Golang and Java with cloud-native orchestration (Kubernetes, GCP, AWS) and a deep focus on observability—having driven measurable improvements like 40% cost reduction and 45% better incident detection at Flink. Rajat has led teams end-to-end from architecture decisions to on-call practices and tooling, and has a strong SRE mindset informed by managing high-throughput monitoring systems at Zalando. Known for mentoring engineers and improving operational excellence, he balances strategic leadership with code-level contributions and process changes that reduce noise and improve reliability.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
B.Tech Information Technology, B.Tech Information Technology at Eastern Academy of Science and TechMaster's degree Computer Science (Software Engineering), Master's degree Computer Science (Software Engineering) at Technical University of Kaiserslautern
English, German, Hindi, Odia
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Github Skills (77)
kairosdb9
api8
boundaries8
rest8
monitoring8
rest-api8
dashboard8
endpoint8
java8
amazon8
mysql8
timeseries-database7
elasticsearch7
data-visualization7
analytics7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
rajatparida86/wtfdial
Jan 2019 - Feb 2019
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Contributions:16 commits, 7 PRs, 9 pushes in 17 days
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rajatparida86/readgit
Jan 2019 - Jan 2019
Contributions:12 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 2 days
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