Summary
Richa Khandelwal is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building backend systems and data pipelines, currently driving product engineering at Rippling in New York. She brings deep Java and Python expertise, proven across startups and scale-ups, and a strong foundation from an M.Sc. in Information Technology from BITS Pilani. Her background includes designing ETL pipelines, asynchronous messaging systems, and geo-aware services—work that combined Play, Akka, MongoDB, Redshift and AWS to solve real-world mobile and analytics problems. At Indus OS she owned end-to-end features from integration with third-party providers to data standardization and delivery, and at Amazon she tackled SQL-to-NoSQL migration challenges with DynamoDB. Known for translating ambiguous product requirements into reliable production code, she balances pragmatic engineering with scalable architecture. Based in NYC, she mixes hands-on implementation with cross-functional collaboration, often bridging product, data, and infrastructure concerns.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and Science
English, Hindi