Raman Khatri is a pragmatic software engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable web and backend systems, now based in the San Francisco Bay Area and working as a Member of Technical Staff at xAI. He has shipped high‑traffic products—including a Super Bowl Portal supporting 800k+ concurrent users at X—and contributed backend fixes and HA enhancements to the privacy-focused rudder-server open-source project. Raman blends research-driven AI/HCI work from Virginia Tech with hands-on product delivery, having built full‑stack tools used by 100+ students and led pro-bono SaaS efforts that reached 30k+ monthly users. He has a track record of performance optimization and refactors (server-side rendering, faster loads, higher test coverage) across internships at Amazon and startups. Comfortable running teams and shipping end-to-end features, he often surfaces overlooked system limits and operational edge-cases while prioritizing real user impact.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Virginia Tech
Privacy and Security focused Segment-alternative, in Golang and React
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:46 reviews, 10 commits, 11 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Raman primarily focused on fixing and enhancing the server-side functionality of the `rudder-server` repository. Their commits involved modifications to the router and batchrouter components, suggesting contributions to the core data processing and routing logic. Furthermore, the user addressed an issue related to the event schema, ensuring that total counts in the metadata did not exceed 32-bit integer limits. They also made changes to facilitate HA gateway functionality within the RudderStack scheduler.
Contributions:2 PRs, 4 pushes, 2 branches in 1 day
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