Rohit Negi is a Director of Engineering with nine years of experience building distributed systems, data pipelines, and scalable platforms across startups and mid-size companies. He combines hands-on expertise in Databricks, Spark, Snowflake, Airflow, Python, Java, Kubernetes, and AWS with a track record of performance and cost optimizations that materially improved reporting and query turnaround. At Dimagi he owned a data warehouse and pipeline work that processed hundreds of thousands of users and millions of daily records, cutting ad-hoc request times by ~72% and speeding report loads by ~40%. Progressing from SDE roles to Staff Engineer and now Director at Urbint, he balances technical delivery with team mentorship and removal of operational bottlenecks. He’s contributed backend fixes to the widely used open-source CommCareHQ, reflecting attention to security and maintainability in mission-critical systems. Based in Delhi, Rohit pairs deep engineering rigor with a pragmatic focus on making data accessible to non-dev stakeholders.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer Science at Sharda University
CommCareHQ is the server backend for CommCare, the world's largest platform for designing, managing, and deploying robust, offline-first, mobile applications to frontline workers worldwide
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:35 reviews, 2931 commits, 762 PRs in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Rohit primarily focused on backend-related tasks, including modifying URLs, removing Flash-based CORS, and whitelisting URLs. They also made changes to the application manager, removing unused functions and merged in code from master, showcasing an understanding of the project's core functionalities. The commits demonstrate a focus on web application security and refactoring existing code to remove unused components. These tasks indicate active involvement in the maintenance and improvement of the server-side logic.
Lamlight is a command line tool to allow easy handling of AWS lambda functions. It allows to put heavy dependencies like numpy and scipy on AWS lambda and updating your lambda function very quickly.
Contributions:2 releases, 3 commits, 28 PRs in 6 months
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