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Senior Software Engineer @ DigitalOcean | Prev: Walmart

About

I enjoy everything computers. Currently deep diving into containers and cloud computing at DigitalOcean 🌊🤿 I am a generalist Software Engineer with a wide range of experience, working at big and small orgs. Through the years, I have: • built backend/infrastructure services & tools, • designed & developed REST/gRPC API’s and CLI utilities, • managed distributed systems operations with a focus on performance tuning, reliability & o11y, • messed around with Linux process & service management, • developed web apps/frontend stuff, • wrote technical blogs/documentation/playbooks, and • also tried my hand at graphic & UI/UX design in my spare time.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

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Work experience

Senior Software Engineer at DigitalOcean, Aug 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 1 mo, New York, United States, Building and maintaining DigitalOcean's Container Registry platform - www.digitalocean.com/products/container-registry

Software Engineer III at Walmart Global Tech India, Sep 2021 - Aug 2023 · 2 yrs, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Contributed to: - a performance testing platform that could generate dynamically alterable load via Jmeter and gatling instances - developer experience platform enabling engineers build and scale services internally

System Engineer at Aikaan Labs, Jul 2018 - Sep 2021 · 3 yrs 3 mos

System Engineering Intern (Pinut) at Aikaan Labs, Jan 2018 - Jul 2018 · 7 mos, Played a key role in developing and maintaining an open source software service that can run on lightweight hardware like raspberry PI's, serving as a Resource Access Point. - Contributed to core device management functionality, captive portal, UI client, telemetry management, etc. - Built OpenRAP plugin to integrate with the API’s of Diksha platform, an initiative by EkStep foundation to democratise education. - Developed a web-based file browser supporting video streaming & viewing PDF content along with the OpenRAP plugin interface to back it, for a pilot project with the govt. of Karnataka.

Education

Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science, Reva University

ISC (XII), City Montessori School

Public links

github: https://github.com/rak16

rak16.xyz: https://rak16.xyz/