Richa Khandelwal
Engineering Leader at Databricks
Cupertino, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRicha Khandelwal is a senior engineering manager with 15+ years of experience building and scaling foundational infrastructure and high-traffic services across consumer and enterprise products. Currently leading Infrastructure-Core Services at Airbnb, she drives Authentication, Authorization, API infra, i18n, and shared services that underpin critical platform capabilities. Previously at Meta she scaled video and social content systems, unified multiple players, and led cross-functional talent and promotion committees that shaped Staff+ engineering growth. At Coursera she owned authentication and catalog services serving 100M+ learners and led security, SSO, and high-throughput catalog APIs, combining product sensibility with deep backend reliability work. Her background spans distributed systems, ML data pipelines for Alexa, and Hadoop-era performance tuning, reflecting rare breadth from low-level systems to consumer product growth infrastructure. Known for a continuous-learning mindset, she blends hands-on technical ownership with strong talent development and cross-team partnership.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
University of California Santa CruzPrimary Education Primary Education, Primary Education Primary Education at St. Thomas' Church School, KolkataSt. Joseph's Convent SchoolCodepathB.Tech Computer Science, B.Tech Computer Science at National Institute of Technology Rourkela
Github Skills (9)
android-app10
mvvm9
viper9
androidx8
exoplayer8
braintree6
credit-card4
sdk4
android3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
richk/CourseraDemoApp
Apr 2015 - Apr 2016
Demo app to demonstrate creating Android app based on VIPER + MVVM
Contributions:24 commits, 2 PRs, 17 pushes in 1 year
android-appmvvmviper
richk/BeaconBuddy
Feb 2015 - Apr 2015
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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