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title: "Rajat Thukral - SDE - IV in Bengaluru | Tal"
description: "Meet Rajat Thukral, SDE-IV at Draup | Engineering Manager | AI Enabler | Distributed Systems & Scalable Platform Infrastructure based in Bengaluru. AI stack includes antigravity and opencode."
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# Rajat Thukral on Tal

## Headline

SDE\-IV at Draup \| Engineering Manager \| AI Enabler \| Distributed Systems & Scalable Platform Infrastructure

## About

I architect systems that treat scale as a first\-class citizen\. Over the last \~8 years at Draup, I’ve evolved a manual data ingestion process into a high\-throughput, distributed platform processing 50M\+ daily tasks and 30M\+ daily requests\. My work centers on decoupling engineering from operations: I designed a GraphQL\-inspired extraction DSL and a config\-driven engine that enables 100k\+ source onboarding without code redeploys\. Core Impact: Scale: Orchestrated a multi\-layered backend \(Temporal, Airflow, Redis, MongoDB, Elasticsearch\) to manage massive task volatility\. Efficiency: Optimized MongoDB architecture for multi\-terabyte datasets, delivering 10x query performance gains\. Future\-Proofing: Currently leading the shift to AI\-native automation, using LLMs to generate platform configs and reduce manual setup by 90%\. Platform Logic: Designed a config\-driven engine that abstracts extraction, pagination, and proxy management\. Stack: Python \(FastAPI/Django\), Temporal, Celery, MongoDB, Playwright, AWS, LLM Orchestration\. I am passionate about building the infrastructure that allows AI to do the "heavy lifting" of system maintenance and scaling\.

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

antigravity

opencode

## Work experience

SDE \- IV at Draup, Jan 2025 \- Present · 1 yr 8 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Scaling, Mentorship, Automation, Enabling AI

SDE \- III at Draup, Jan 2023 \- Dec 2024 · 2 yrs, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Major Migrations, Architecture, Scaling

SDE \- II at Draup, Jun 2021 \- Dec 2022 · 1 yr 7 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Software Engineer Intern at LetsVenture, Apr 2017 \- Jun 2017 · 3 mos, Bengaluru Area, India

## Education

Bachelor of Engineering, Information Technology, Shri G S Institute of Technology & Science

kendriya vidyalaya

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