About

Rishi Ramawat is a Senior Software Development Engineer at Razorpay with a passion for building scalable applications and a high desire to learn new things every day. He has been programming as a hobby since 2007 and professionally since 2016. Rishi is strong in data structures and algorithm design, as well as distributed system design and architecting micro-services. He is proficient in Python, PHP, and good at Java, C, Bash Shell Scripting, and Perl. Rishi is a swift learner and smart worker with proven ability to lead, build, mentor, and train teams of engineers. Rishi has experience building an E-Commerce REST API from scratch and taking it from the initial "Planning" phase of SDLC all the way to the "Maintenance" phase successfully over 5 iterations. He approaches design problems with an engineering mindset and likes working with other developers who share his passion and obsession with designing/architecting high-quality software. Rishi likes to develop systems in a vacuum mindset, having each part communicate through APIs and easy to use interfaces with a UNIX-like mentality ("Do One Thing, Do It Well"). Code clarity, readability/maintainability, developer process, automation, and visibility are always areas Rishi is looking to continually improve. He is comfortable working in fuzzy environments and has proven experience as a leader capable of motivating and energizing the very best software engineers, as well as gaining their respect. In his previous roles, Rishi spearheaded multiple projects driving the re-architecture of Textlocal, a multi-tenant SaaS application to cloud (AWS) based scalable micro-services delivering up to 1,000% improvement in speed & major load reduction on the database in the process. He also decreased server query response time by more than 300% by restructuring the API, improving job-scheduling, and implementing caching using Redis at Medology Technologies. Rishi has a Bachelor of Technology (Honours) in Computer Science and Engineering from Lovely Professional University and a Full-Stack Web Developer Nanodegree from Udacity. He is skilled in Software Engineering, Microservices, AWS, Backend, PHP, RabbitMQ, Python, Java, Swift, Redis, Docker, GCP, and Integration. Rishi has 4.94 years of relevant experience.