Summary
Rohit Katyal is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable backend systems and low-latency live-audio platforms, currently at Twilio in the Greater Seattle area. He has driven production services at Amazon (including Amp/Amazon Music) and AWS, designing failover systems, scalable ECS services, and EKS addons while reducing operational issues like stale deployment hosts. Rohit is experienced in building REST APIs in Python and Java, mentoring new hires, and delivering customer-facing Re:Invent features under tight timelines. His background spans fintech and CMS work earlier in his career, giving him a strong foundation in full-stack integration and content-driven architectures. He pairs hands-on engineering with operational improvements—evidenced by measurable reductions in GitHub issues and deployment failures—bringing reliability-focused thinking to product teams. With a B.Tech in ECE and an MIS master’s, he blends hardware-aware thinking with cloud-native software delivery.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan
Master's Degree, Management Information Systems, General, Master's Degree, Management Information Systems, General at University at Buffalo, The State University at Buffalo
B.Tech, ECE, B.Tech, ECE at Bharati Vidyapeeth
Hindi, English, German