About

Raj is a highly experienced Principal Software Engineer at Redhat with over 11.5 years of experience in software development. He has a strong background in designing and developing highly available and scalable hybrid cloud containerized applications deployable on Kubernetes/Openshift. Raj is skilled in leading timely delivery of complex business solutions by rapid prototyping and productionizing using Agile principles. He is also experienced in driving innovation within the team to solve unique business use-cases. Raj has 6+ years of cloud development experience in Azure and 2+ years in AWS offerings. He has 3+ years of experience in Analytics/Big Data ecosystem with Python, Jupyter, Looker, Snowflake, Spark, Hive, HDFS, Airflow, Java, Plottly. Raj is experienced in integrating 3rd party services like Cybersource (Payment Gateway), FedEx Rate (Shipping Gateway), OopFactory (X12 EDI Parser), Matillion (ETL tool) etc. He also has experience in saving infra cost by re-designing approach with the same end result. Raj has led a team of developers and provided technical and organizational guidance. He is skilled in defining priorities and the timelines for project deliverables by working closely with all the stakeholders. Raj has hands-on experience on multiple domains such as Healthcare, Education, and B2B Ecommerce. He maintains code quality across the project and is a swift learner, self-motivated, team player, and has a “CanDo” attitude. In the past, Raj has worked with Apttus as a Staff Software Engineer and with Redhat as a Senior Software Engineer. At Redhat, he architected modules for a cloud-native application covering Openshift and AWS hosted services. He also architected and developed end-to-end data pipelines, designed and developed cloud scale graph service, designed, developed, deployed, and tested microservices with CI/CD processes, and mentored junior members and helped them with their progressions. Raj holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering from Dharmsihn Desai University. He has a strong tech stack that includes Software Engineering, AWS, Jupyter, HDFS, Snowflake, Spark, Apache Airflow, Big Data, Kubernetes, ETL, Azure, infra, CI/CD, test, Python, Java, Swift, Microservices, and Apache Hive. Raj has a relevant experience of 13.87 years and is a valuable asset to any organization.