Vibhaj Rajan is a hands-on software engineer and technology leader with 12 years of experience building and scaling high-performance distributed systems across fintech, security, cloud, and education. He has repeatedly bootstrapped and led engineering teams and platforms—from founding engineering at Drip Capital and CTO at Telivy (acquired) to scaling CoinDCX to millions of users—while remaining deeply technical and code-first. Comfortable owning end-to-end product and infrastructure, he excels at real-time, async, multi-threaded and big-data architectures and has a track record of turning security and reliability work into market differentiation. Based in California with an IIT background and executive finance training, he blends product empathy (thinking in the customer’s shoes) with operational rigor and rapid delivery. Notably, he built foundational IP that grew ARR quickly at a startup and helped CoinDCX earn a reputation as one of India’s most secure exchanges.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
HSC, Science Stream (Vocational - Electronics), HSC, Science Stream (Vocational - Electronics) at Fr. Agnel Multipurpose School & Jr. College, Navi Mumbai
PG Certificate, Financial Technologies, PG Certificate, Financial Technologies at Institute of Management Technology, Hyderabad
M Tech (Integrated Dual Degree), Computer Science & Engineering, M Tech (Integrated Dual Degree), Computer Science & Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University), Varanasi
SSC, Primary - Secondary Education, SSC, Primary - Secondary Education at St. Augustine's High School, Navi Mumbai
Executive Program, Applied Finance, Executive Program, Applied Finance at Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta
Contributions:6 PRs, 41 pushes, 8 branches in 8 years 1 month
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