Summary
Rajnish Kumar is a pragmatic software engineer with four years’ experience building scalable, secure backend systems across SaaS, fintech, and edtech. At Uptycs he focuses on enabling SaaS at scale, secret/key security, vulnerability detection across hosts and containers, and performance-tuning a Go-based Kafka rule engine that processes OS telemetry. He has a track record of architecting event-driven, serverless solutions and integrating payment/KYC flows, and previously drove a Kafka migration at BYJU’S that raised processing success from 80% to 99%. Skilled in Python, Node.js, MongoDB and AWS, he pairs strong hands-on engineering with a product-minded sense for shipping reliable features like KPI and attendance platforms. Based in Ranchi, he brings a civil engineering background and an appetite for cybersecurity and product management that inform pragmatic, security-first designs.
5 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Rashtriya Indian Military College
Bachelor of Engineering, Civil Engineering, Distinction 82.3%, Bachelor of Engineering, Civil Engineering, Distinction 82.3% at Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra
Hindi, English, nagpuri, Sanskrit