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title: "Rahul Srivastava - Staff Engineer (Tech Lead) in Greater Bengaluru Area | Tal"
description: "Meet Rahul Srivastava, Staff Engineer @ CockroachDB | Ex- Confluent, Goldman Sachs, Directi based in Greater Bengaluru Area. AI stack includes anthropic apis, claude code, and codex."
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# Rahul Srivastava on Tal

## Headline

Staff Engineer @ CockroachDB \| Ex\- Confluent, Goldman Sachs, Directi

## About

Lead Software Engineer with 10\+ years of experience architecting resilient distributed systems and high\-scale platform infrastructure\. My expertise lies at the intersection of robust backend engineering and seamless user experience\.

## Location

Greater Bengaluru Area

## AI stack

anthropic apis

claude code

codex

cursor

gemini

mcp

## Work experience

Staff Engineer \(Tech Lead\) at Cockroach Labs, Feb 2024 \- Present · 2 yrs 8 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Senior Software Engineer II at Confluent, Jun 2021 \- Nov 2023 · 2 yrs 6 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Vice President \(Tech Lead\) at Goldman Sachs, Dec 2020 \- May 2021 · 6 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Associate at Goldman Sachs, Oct 2018 \- Dec 2020 · 2 yrs 3 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Senior Software Engineer at Directi, Apr 2018 \- Sep 2018 · 6 mos, Gurgaon, Haryana, India

Software Engineer at Directi, Dec 2016 \- Apr 2018 · 1 yr 5 mos, Gurgaon, India, Projects 1\) AD Quality Pipeline \(Media\.net\) A pipeline build to monitor the quality of Ads served by the media\.net platform 2\) Creative Review Dashboard \(Media\.net\) The UI to see the ads served by the media\.net platform and take bulk actions on them\. 3\) Corporate Dashboard \(Zeta\) The Corporate Dashboard for the HR to issue meal, medical, communication and several other corporate benefit cards of Zeta

Research Trainee at Indian Institute Of Technology\(BHU\),Varanasi, Apr 2014 \- May 2014 · 2 mos, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India

## Education

Bachelor of Technology, Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology

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