--- title: "Deval Sethi - SDE 2 in Jaipur | Tal" description: "Meet Deval Sethi, Software Engineer 2 @ Rippling | Ex- Coursehero, Apna | Distributed Systems & Event-Driven Architecture Expert | Golang, Python, Java | Kafka, AWS, ML Engineering | Building High-Throughput Systems based in Jaipur. AI stack includes claude, codex, and cursor. Explore public work l..." image: "https://tal.club/meet/deval-sethi/share-image" --- # Deval Sethi on Tal ## Headline Software Engineer 2 @ Rippling \| Ex\- Coursehero, Apna \| Distributed Systems & Event\-Driven Architecture Expert \| Golang, Python, Java \| Kafka, AWS, ML Engineering \| Building High\-Throughput Systems ## About 饾棙饾槄饾椊饾棽饾椏饾椂饾棽饾椈饾棸饾棽饾棻 饾棪饾椉饾棾饾榿饾槃饾棶饾椏饾棽 饾棙饾椈饾棿饾椂饾椈饾棽饾棽饾椏 scaling systems to handle 1B\+ daily events and 100M\+ documents with 99\.9% uptime\. Recognized as the \#1 Highest Performing Individual among 850\+ employees at Apna\. I specialize in: \- Architecting high\-throughput platforms processing billions of events daily using Golang, Python, and Java\. \- Designing fault\-tolerant, event\-driven systems with Kafka, gRPC, and RESTful services\. \- Building machine learning infrastructure supporting real\-time personalization and fraud detection \(95% accuracy\)\. \- Optimizing distributed systems resulting in 20\-35% performance improvements Currently at Course Hero developing content distribution and rewards platforms that increased user engagement by 35% and platform retention by 20%\. Previously led data and machine learning initiatives at Apna, building real\-time job recommendations processing over 1B unique job\-user combinations daily\. Technical skills: \- Programming: Golang, Python, Java \- Cloud & Infrastructure: AWS \(Lambda, EC2, S3, RDS\), GCP \(Cloud Run, Compute Engine, Cloud Storage\), Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD \- Databases: PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, Elasticsearch, ScyllaDB, Cassandra \- Data & ML Pipelines: Airflow, Spark, FastAPI, Feature Stores \- Software Engineering Practices: System Design, Scalability, Distributed Systems, Microservices, RESTful APIs, gRPC, CI/CD, Agile Methodologies, Testing \(Unit, Integration, E2E\) \- AI & LLMs: RAG, LLMs, AI Agents, Vector Databases, Prompt Engineering Open to discussing backend engineering and distributed systems opportunities at scale\-focused organizations\. Hit me up: devaljain1998@gmail\.com ## Location Jaipur ## AI stack claude codex cursor claudecode ## Work experience SDE 2 at Rippling, Jul 2025 \- Present 路 1 yr 2 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India SDE 2 at Course Hero, Apr 2023 \- Jul 2025 路 2 yrs 4 mos, Remote, \- Architected and launched a high\-throughput content distribution platform \(Thalamus\) processing 100M\+ documents daily, leveraging ML\-powered clustering and heuristic\-based ranking algorithms, resulting in 10% CTR increase \- Engineered fault\-tolerant, event\-driven systems using Kafka in Golang with comprehensive producer/consumer implementation, dead letter queues, and batch ingestion mechanisms \- Developed Course Hero's fraud detection platform integrating Kafka, gRPC, and REST APIs, achieving 95% accuracy in identifying fraudulent activities across the platform \- Designed and implemented a scalable rewards platform driving 35% increased user engagement and 20% boost in platform retention and transaction metrics \- Optimized internal Kafka consumer library enabling batch processing, reducing event processing latency by 35% Technologies: Golang, Python, AWS \(Lambda, EC2, S3\), Kafka, Airflow, gRPC, REST APIs, PostgreSQL, Redis Data Engineer at apna, Mar 2022 \- Apr 2023 路 1 yr 2 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Built Apna's job feed prediction in a stream \(near real\-time\) and batch fashion to show our users the best and relevant jobs\. \[Full architecture covered in blog post\]\. Software Engineer at apna, Jun 2021 \- Mar 2022 路 10 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Awarded as the "Highest Performing Individual" at Apna by the CEO Nirmit Parikh\. \- Became the part of core initial engineering team\. \- Working on creating microservices from scratch in Golang\. \- Part of team which is developing Apna's Growth and Platform vertical from scratch\. \- Empowered Apna's social dilemma by creating key services: Data Ingestion Service, ML Platform and Experimentation Platform SDE Intern at DailyRounds / Marrow, Jan 2021 \- Jun 2021 路 6 mos, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India, \- It is a Microsoft and Accel funded company that has products to cater to the needs of medical practitioners and students\. Later it was acquired by M3\. \- Got to work on two products: Dailyrounds and Marrow\. \- Worked on code migration from Python2 to Python3\. \- Migrated Celery tasks to Python3 infrastructure and used RabbitMQ as a broker\. \- Researched various solutions to implement centralized logging in the backend\. Python Developer at PillarPlus, Sep 2020 \- Jan 2021 路 5 mos, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India, \-It is a YCombinator funded startup working to revolutionize the construction\-tech\. \- Optimized APIs response time by doing SQL Joins in Django\. \- Worked on networkx for handling the graphs and ezdxf for working with dxf files and shapely for data cleaning\. \- Worked on cost estimation, beam detection, ducting and data cleaning algorithm using graphs and various data structures\. ## Education Bachelor of Technology \- BTech, Computer Science, Poornima college of engineering High School, PCM, Bhartiya Vidya Bhavan Vidyashram, Jaipur ## Public links - github: https://github\.com/devaljain1998 - medium: https://medium\.com/@devaljain1998 [View the original profile](https://tal.club/meet/deval-sethi) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "Person", "@id": "https://tal.club/meet/deval-sethi#person", "name": "Deval Sethi", "url": "https://tal.club/meet/deval-sethi", "image": "https://tal.club/meet/deval-sethi/profile-photo.jpg", "description": "Meet Deval Sethi, Software Engineer 2 @ Rippling | Ex- Coursehero, Apna | Distributed Systems & Event-Driven Architecture Expert | Golang, Python, Java | Kafka, AWS, ML Engineering | Building High-Throughput Systems based in Jaipur. 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