Summary
Rounaq Wala is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience, currently building scalable developer tools and infrastructure at Google after earlier roles in core engineering at Tower Research Capital. He prefers projects with well-defined semantics and brings deep C++ and Java expertise for large managed systems, while using Python for scripting and quick automation. His background includes building CI/CD, build systems and release tooling, and he has a history of curating and solving algorithmic problems and teaching core CS courses. Rounaq favors incremental, practical enhancements to concrete technologies rather than chasing every new trend, which makes him a pragmatic engineer focused on durable improvements. Based in Delhi, he blends research-oriented thinking from IIIT-Delhi with production-grade delivery across finance and cloud-scale environments. An under-the-radar strength is his taste for clearly specified problems, which helps him design predictable, maintainable systems.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Class XII Sciences, Class XII Sciences at Bhai Parmanand Vidya Mandir
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) with Honors Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) with Honors Computer Science at IIIT-Delhi
English, Hindi