Rakesh Sukla
Director Of Engineering, Platform Automation Engineering
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolRakesh Sukla is an engineering leader with 11 years of experience specializing in quality automation, cloud-orchestrated CI/CD, and developer productivity, currently serving as Director of Engineering for Platform Automation at Bread Financial. He has a track record of architecting enterprise-grade automation platforms, orchestrated pipelines, and release systems that measurably improve software quality, accelerate release velocity, and reduce infrastructure costs. Rakesh combines hands-on expertise across Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, Jenkins, CircleCI and custom CI/CD with a talent for scaling high-performing global teams and operational practices. He is known for building automated testing frameworks spanning web, mobile, API and gRPC, and for operationalizing chaos and performance testing to reduce production incidents. A former NYU computer science graduate, he brings both academic rigor and practical experience from startups to large financial services organizations. Less obvious: he repeatedly serves as a foundational engineer—designing platforms from scratch while also driving hiring, compliance-ready engineering processes, and long-term developer productivity improvements.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree Computer Science, Master's Degree Computer Science at New York UniversityBachelor's degree Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor's degree Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering at Bharati Vidyapeeth
English, Hindi, Odia
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (102)
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javascript9
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
rakeshsukla53/sukoon
May 2017 - Feb 2020
Delivering the most delicious, healthy indian food at your door step
Contributions:11 commits, 1 PR, 10 pushes in 2 years 8 months
indian-fooddeliciousfoodhealthydoor
rakeshsukla53/interview-preparation
Aug 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:256 commits, 2 PRs, 242 pushes in 5 months
implementationstechnical-interview-questionstechnical-interview
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