Rohan Benkar
Senior Staff Software Engineer - AI Engineer at Forbes Technology Council
Sunnyvale, California, United States
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Top SchoolRohan Benkar is a Senior Staff Software Engineer and AI-focused architect based in Sunnyvale with 15+ years of experience designing scalable backend systems, cloud infrastructure, and product platforms. At Coursera he helped found the AI engineering team, led the Labs platform from inception to millions of learners, and authored organization-wide GenAI guidance and architecture that saved substantial annual costs. He combines deep distributed-systems and microservices expertise with hands-on delivery—driving gRPC/REST interoperability, autograding redesigns, and GPU-enabled sandboxing for production reliability. Known for mentoring multiple staff engineers and aligning long-term technical strategy across ten teams, he excels at high-leverage projects that balance velocity and maintainability. Outside product work he brings a research-informed mindset from his MS in Computer Science and early academic game-research, which surfaces in pragmatic, user-centered AI features.
8 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BE) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BE) Computer Engineering at Savitribai Phule Pune UniversityMaster of Science (MS) Computer Science, Master of Science (MS) Computer Science at The Ohio State University
English, Hindi, Marathi
Github Skills (8)
eclipse7
devtools6
asciidoc5
antora5
ide5
java4
kubernetes3
documentation3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (3)
coursera/coursera-labs
Dec 2019 - Jul 2021
Contributions:5 reviews, 13 commits, 9 PRs in 1 year 7 months
RohanBenkar/TestGitApi
Nov 2019 - Nov 2019
Contributions:1 branch in 1 day
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