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Rohit Raj

Salesforce | Ex-Rapido | Ex Co-Founder Hackerhive (YS Tech30-2017)

Bengaluru

10+ years of work experience

Salesforce
Jan 20242 yrs 8 mosPresent

Architecture & Technical Leadership: Architected a high-scale, low-tolerance distributed data discovery and classification platform for global compliance, using a regex-hybrid, rule-based detection engine to identify PII and regulated data across large-scale structured and semi-structured sources (databases, logs, files). Designed high-throughput, horizontally scalable scanning pipelines, focusing on throughput optimisation, fault tolerance, and accuracy, with strong emphasis on false-positive reduction and rule governance at scale. Led system-level decisions spanning data ingestion, detection engines, performance tuning, and operational reliability, setting technical direction across teams. Impact & Scope: Enabled processing of ~40 million records per customer, supporting customers across multiple geographies and compliance regimes. Delivered a foundational compliance capability that reduced manual audits, accelerated regulatory readiness, and scaled reliably with customer data growth. Acted as a technical multiplier, influencing architecture, roadmap prioritisation, and cross-functional execution.
Rapido
Sep 20212 yrs 4 mosDec 2023

Architecture design and development of payments systems, Ledger, Wallets etc. Designing highly scalable, stable, highly available and robust systems to handle millions of request. Providing mentorship, guidance and technical expertise to team. Scaled the tech to 1.6 million daily rides Helped in growing the tech team to around 100 members.
Rapido
Jan 20192 yrs 10 mosOct 2021

Bengaluru Area, India

Started leading the whole payments platform of Rapido, money coming in and going out. Supporting different payment options and Redeems for end users. Architecture of the system, ledger, recon is something that I do. Scaled the tech from 75K daily rides to 500k daily rides Involved in hiring and scaling the team from 10 members to 50 members.
Rapido
Oct 20184 mosJan 2019

Bengaluru Area, India

Early Engineer (8th) Scaled the tech from 9k daily rides to 75k daily rides. Worked across all the tech domains of Rapido. Stabilisation, Scaling, Customer Experience, Driver Experience, Payments, Booking, Order propagation, Pricing and Devops was the prime focus.
Dec 20161 yr 10 mosSep 2018

Bengaluru Area, India

CTO & Tech Cofounder of a security startup, owning product vision, architecture, delivery, and enterprise customer engagements across multiple high-scale security platforms. Built and scaled hackerhive.io, India’s first bug bounty platform, enabling enterprise vulnerability disclosure programs, engaging large researcher communities, and handling high-volume security findings. Created csp-report.com, a globally adopted CSP & HPKP analysis service processing internet-scale security telemetry to detect and prevent XSS and browser-level attacks. Developed phish.watch, an enterprise phishing simulation and training platform executing large-scale campaigns and tracking organizational risk reduction metrics. Business Impact: Drove enterprise and mid-market revenue, closed multiple deals, formed security partnerships and integrations, and directly supported sales, onboarding, and renewals through product credibility and technical leadership.
Campus Diaries
Jul 20165 mosNov 2016

Bengaluru Area, India

• Worked in a start-up with domain in social connectivity of students and the campuses.(Got shutdown) • Developed a search mechanism for fast searching through the website. • Worked with Nodejs, Reactjs, Redux for development and deployment of the project. • Worked with flux architecture for development of the project in Reactjs. • Used Elastic search, Firebase for handling large chunks of data and dynamic indexing of data. • Used Jira, invision, asana for project management. • Helping out team for developing the product in a formulated way.
Wigzo
Oct 201510 mosJul 2016

New Delhi Area, India

• Built and owned a SaaS-based recommendation & personalization platform from design to production.. • Designed and implemented a dynamic advertising engine with real-time bidding algorithms for optimal deal selection. • Developed scalable backend services and integrations with external ad platforms • Created data analytics and visualization dashboards to track user behavior and campaign performance. • Led end-to-end product development—requirements, development, testing, and global deployment—with a lean team.

Rohit’s AI Stack

claude code
claude code
cursor
cursor
gemini
gemini

Education

Acharya

Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Computer Science

Acharya

20094 yrs2013

SSC

D.A.V. Public School, Cantt. Area, Gaya

20051 yr2006

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Headline

Salesforce | Ex-Rapido | Ex Co-Founder Hackerhive (YS Tech30-2017)

About

Experienced engineer with 12 years of experience in Software Development, Architecture and Design while collaborating for Product Development, providing mentorship, guidance to team. I showcase leadership in decision making related to architecture and design of robust and scalable systems. Experience in contribution to projects from scratch while scaling from 1->100. Skilled in Java, Javascript, Nodejs, Golang, Microservices, Distributed systems, MongoDb, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, Redis, Kafka. 8+ years of Experience in hiring and building robust engineering teams for highly performant environment. Had been an entrepreneur in cyber security domain which gives me an edge to think on products/features from a business mindset and articulate well while designing the systems.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

claude code

cursor

gemini

Work experience

Lead Member of Technical Staff at Salesforce, Jan 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 8 mos, Architecture & Technical Leadership: Architected a high-scale, low-tolerance distributed data discovery and classification platform for global compliance, using a regex-hybrid, rule-based detection engine to identify PII and regulated data across large-scale structured and semi-structured sources (databases, logs, files). Designed high-throughput, horizontally scalable scanning pipelines, focusing on throughput optimisation, fault tolerance, and accuracy, with strong emphasis on false-positive reduction and rule governance at scale. Led system-level decisions spanning data ingestion, detection engines, performance tuning, and operational reliability, setting technical direction across teams. Impact & Scope: Enabled processing of ~40 million records per customer, supporting customers across multiple geographies and compliance regimes. Delivered a foundational compliance capability that reduced manual audits, accelerated regulatory readiness, and scaled reliably with customer data growth. Acted as a technical multiplier, influencing architecture, roadmap prioritisation, and cross-functional execution.

Lead Product Engineer II at Rapido, Sep 2021 - Dec 2023 · 2 yrs 4 mos, Architecture design and development of payments systems, Ledger, Wallets etc. Designing highly scalable, stable, highly available and robust systems to handle millions of request. Providing mentorship, guidance and technical expertise to team. Scaled the tech to 1.6 million daily rides Helped in growing the tech team to around 100 members.

Lead Product Engineer I at Rapido, Jan 2019 - Oct 2021 · 2 yrs 10 mos, Bengaluru Area, India, Started leading the whole payments platform of Rapido, money coming in and going out. Supporting different payment options and Redeems for end users. Architecture of the system, ledger, recon is something that I do. Scaled the tech from 75K daily rides to 500k daily rides Involved in hiring and scaling the team from 10 members to 50 members.

Senior Software Engineer at Rapido, Oct 2018 - Jan 2019 · 4 mos, Bengaluru Area, India, Early Engineer (8th) Scaled the tech from 9k daily rides to 75k daily rides. Worked across all the tech domains of Rapido. Stabilisation, Scaling, Customer Experience, Driver Experience, Payments, Booking, Order propagation, Pricing and Devops was the prime focus.

Co-Founder, CTO at Hackerhive, Dec 2016 - Sep 2018 · 1 yr 10 mos, Bengaluru Area, India, CTO & Tech Cofounder of a security startup, owning product vision, architecture, delivery, and enterprise customer engagements across multiple high-scale security platforms. Built and scaled hackerhive.io, India’s first bug bounty platform, enabling enterprise vulnerability disclosure programs, engaging large researcher communities, and handling high-volume security findings. Created csp-report.com, a globally adopted CSP & HPKP analysis service processing internet-scale security telemetry to detect and prevent XSS and browser-level attacks. Developed phish.watch, an enterprise phishing simulation and training platform executing large-scale campaigns and tracking organizational risk reduction metrics. Business Impact: Drove enterprise and mid-market revenue, closed multiple deals, formed security partnerships and integrations, and directly supported sales, onboarding, and renewals through product credibility and technical leadership.

Senior Software Engineer at Campus Diaries, Jul 2016 - Nov 2016 · 5 mos, Bengaluru Area, India, • Worked in a start-up with domain in social connectivity of students and the campuses.(Got shutdown) • Developed a search mechanism for fast searching through the website. • Worked with Nodejs, Reactjs, Redux for development and deployment of the project. • Worked with flux architecture for development of the project in Reactjs. • Used Elastic search, Firebase for handling large chunks of data and dynamic indexing of data. • Used Jira, invision, asana for project management. • Helping out team for developing the product in a formulated way.

Senior Software Developer at Wigzo, Oct 2015 - Jul 2016 · 10 mos, New Delhi Area, India, • Built and owned a SaaS-based recommendation & personalization platform from design to production.. • Designed and implemented a dynamic advertising engine with real-time bidding algorithms for optimal deal selection. • Developed scalable backend services and integrations with external ad platforms • Created data analytics and visualization dashboards to track user behavior and campaign performance. • Led end-to-end product development—requirements, development, testing, and global deployment—with a lean team.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Computer Science, Acharya

SSC, D.A.V. Public School, Cantt. Area, Gaya