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# Rahul Agrawal on Tal

## Headline

Pragmatic Engineer / Learner

## About

I simplify complexity so teams can build software that is easy to understand, easy to change, and designed to last\. Over the years, I've learned that one of the biggest challenges in software isn't technology—it's complexity\. If a solution is more complex than the problem itself, we're probably solving it the wrong way\. I spend time simplifying complex systems until I can explain them in plain language\. That process often reveals relationships, trade\-offs, risks, and design flaws that are easy to miss when looking only at the technology\. Once a problem becomes simple, I can help others understand and develop deep understanding of it rather than simply following practices\. People often tell me that concepts they struggled with for weeks become clear in discussions with me because we focus on the underlying model instead of the implementation\. My Goal is never to be the smartest person in the room, but to help everyone make better decisions\. As result when the team shares the same mental model, something remarkable happens\. Individual strengths, creativity, and experience become amplified because everyone is solving the same problem from the same understanding\. Instead of debating interpretations, teams build on each other's ideas\. Conversations become more meaningful, decisions become better, and together we often discover solutions that no single individual would have arrived at alone\. I believe great architecture doesn't just simplify systems—it unlocks the collective intelligence of the team\. I strive to build environments where people can experiment, learn, challenge ideas, and innovate without fear of being judged\. Previously, as Senior Architect at MphRx \(acquired by Agilon Health\), I led the modernization of a large healthcare platform, transforming a legacy monolith into a secure, cloud\-native, developer\-friendly distributed system\. Working across engineering, product, and operations, I helped establish modern engineering practices, embed Extreme Programming, strengthen security, and deliver HIPAA and ISO\-27001 compliance while significantly improving developer productivity and delivery speed\. I also teach as a Guest Faculty at a reputed engineering college's remote learning programme, where I enjoy breaking down complex engineering concepts into simple mental models that students can apply throughout their careers\. Areas of expertise: Software Architecture • Distributed Systems • Java • Integration Patterns • Performance Engineering • Application Security • DevSecOps • Developer Experience • Technical Leadership • Pair & Mob Programming

## Location

Haryana

## Work experience

Pragmatic Engineer / Guest Faculty at Independant Consultant, Apr 2023 \- Present · 3 yrs 6 mos, Hybrid, Working in globally distributed team of high\-performance engineers seamlessly building products for scale\-ups and startups\. Hands on mentoring and collaborating with teams to optimise technical processes, reduce functional and technical debt, and alleviate developer friction\.

Senior Architect at MphRx, Feb 2016 \- Feb 2023 · 7 yrs 1 mo, Gurugram, Agilon Health acquired MphRx in early 2023 Accountable for the overall architecture and design of Mphrx's healthcare platform, particularly in relation to data ingestion and the FHIR API server\. Performed comprehensive analysis of non\-functional requirements for application security, performance and patient safety, identifying potential areas of improvement\. Leading members of cross\-functional teams, including developers, product owners, and testersto continuously raise the bar on these attributes with every release\. Modernized MphRx's data ingestion and API platform, upgrading legacy Grails\-based platform to a new stack comprising Java, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud Gateway, mini\-services, and Kubernetes on Azure Cloud\. It resulted in a significant improvement in time to deliver new features, reduce technical debt, platform performance, security and developer satisfaction\. Led end\-to\-end application security architecture for the healthcare platform, ensuring alignment with HIPAA, ISO\-27001, ONC, and multiple country\-specific regulations\. Reduced security risk proactively by collaborating with external white\-hat communities for VAPT, training, and periodic audits — resulted in zero major breaches over almost 5 years\. Averted significant security breaches, gained trust of healthcare customers globally, leading to higher customer retention and improved brand image by establishing healthcare industry standard security controls\. Led secure SDLC integration based on OWASP guidelines, embedding security scans and controls directly into CI/CD pipelines using Snyk, SonarQube, BurpSuite, Bitbucket Pipelines, and Mozilla Observatory\. Hands\-on implementation of Extreme Programming resulted in substantial productivity gains and enhanced developer experience, leading to less stressful product development process\. Was able to keep high developer satisfaction in my team that helped to have almost negligible attrition in my team for last the 5 years of my tenure at Mphrx\.

Senior Technical Consultant at Independant Consultant, Aug 2013 \- Feb 2016 · 2 yrs 7 mos, Delhi/Bangalore/USA, Working in globally distributed teams with collective ownership\. Doing whatever is required to meet the definition of done\. For the Infrastructure team at Kaybus \(Acquired by Prysm\), owned the responsibility of the architecture, design and development of proprietary ETL based workflow engine for knowledge extraction from documents, images and videos for a cloud based SAS business model\. Overhauled the ETL using Apache Storm to improve the throughput by 40% and enable on demand horizontal scalability\. Worked with the data science team to re\-engineer and scale their customized version of K\-Means Clustering algorithm using Spark framework\. The recommendation engine of Kaybus took 50% less time to generate the results post re\-engineering\. Designed and implemented the pdf server to generate on demand reports in realtime for Probe42 Inc\. Probe42 has detailed financial data of close to 3 million companies\. The solution is serving an average 10k users per day with < 5 secs response time and near zero failures\. Rendering more than 30k pdfs per day during business hours\. For the project Breathe at India Spend, developed the backend to efficiently store time series information of the streaming Air Quality Data coming from around 1000 live low cost sensors\. At a regular interval of 5 minutes, each device emitted live AQI data, which was later to be queried via various APIs to display the Air Quality Index in near real time on a portal displaying the AQI information of various locations\.

Development Manager at BlueStone, Aug 2012 \- Aug 2013 · 1 yr 1 mo, Bangalore / Delhi, Designed and built the platform that hosted the e\-commerce platform for bluestone\.com\. Ensured scalability & high availability of the e\-commerce website with a small team of self organised engineers\.

Senior Engineer at eMeter Corporation, a Siemens Business, Dec 2010 \- Aug 2012 · 1 yr 9 mos, Delhi NCR, eMeter was acquired by Siemens\.

## Education

5 year Dual Degree \(B\.Tech and M\.Tech\), Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi

10th, 10\+2, St Xavier School, Bokaro Steel City

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