About

Rajat Mittal is a proficient professional with over 5 years of experience in backend development and high scale distributed systems. He has a special focus on Edge Network infrastructure and currently works as an API at Twilio. Rajat's current role as a Senior Software Engineer at Twilio involves working with the Edge team, which acts as a gateway for all of Twilio's Web and REST API traffic, handling around 10 billion requests a week. The gateway acts as a proxy between the public internet and the rest of Twilio's internal microservices and helps with several first layer defenses like load balancing, rate limiting, global routing, and preventing denial of service (DoS) attacks. Prior to his current role, Rajat worked with Yahoo as a Software Development Engineer where he was part of the traffic protection team at Verizon Media/Yahoo. He worked on developing efficient data solutions that acted as the first layer of defense for the advertisement traffic flowing through Verizon Media's demand side, supply side, and programmatic guaranteed platforms. Rajat's educational background includes a Master of Science in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Purdue University and a Bachelor of Technology in the same field from the National Institute of Technology Karnataka. He has a strong technical skill set that includes Software Engineering, Backend development, Microservices, Web, SQL, ML, Azure, Image Processing, Big Data, AWS, Python, Java, Spark, MapReduce, CI/CD, dotNET, test, qa, Kubernetes, Docker, Tensorflow, Pytorch, and Integration. With almost 5 years of relevant experience, Rajat is a highly skilled and experienced professional who is passionate about technology and committed to delivering high-quality work. He is a valuable asset to any organization he works with and is always looking for ways to improve his skills and knowledge.