Rakesh Thirugnanam
Senior Software Engineer at Grab
Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolRakesh Thirugnanam is a Senior Software Engineer with seven years of hands-on experience building scalable backend systems, microservices, and migration tooling across fintech and marketplace domains. He has shipped impactful work at Intuit—raising payroll migration success from 65% to 97%—and now drives event management and observability at Grab, working with Kafka and AI-enabled incident triage. Comfortable across Java and Python ecosystems, he contributes to open source (author of the IP-Model PyPI package) and combines strong data modeling, gRPC/REST API design, and DevOps practices (Docker, AWS, Jenkins). Rakesh pairs pragmatic engineering with mentorship and cross-functional leadership, from owning end-to-end services at Bewakoof to guiding interns and hiring efforts at Intuit. Always learning, he maintains a public portfolio and focuses on practical, automatable solutions that reduce manual toil.
7 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
11th & 12th Mathematics and Computer Science, 11th & 12th Mathematics and Computer Science at Kendriya Vidyalaya Gill NagarBachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at D G Vaishnav College
Tamil, English, Hindi
Github Skills (14)
django7
radix-tree7
react2
firestore2
reactjs-components2
firebase2
javascript2
todoist2
android-application2
react-components1
react-suspense1
react-hooks1
firebase-database1
database1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
rakesht2499/Blacklisting
Apr 2020 - Oct 2022
A Django application for Blacklisting Service
Contributions:17 reviews, 32 commits, 20 PRs in 2 years 6 months
django
rakesht2499/ip_model
Mar 2020 - Jun 2020
An implementation of RadixTree for efficiently storing, removing & checking in O(1) time for all Ip addresses.
Contributions:84 commits, 8 PRs, 59 pushes in 2 months
radix-tree
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