About

Rohit Raj is a highly skilled Lead Product Engineer II at Rapido, with over 9 years of relevant experience in software engineering. He is a co-founder of Hackerhive, a company that was recognized as one of the top 30 startups in India in 2017. Rohit is an expert in Java, Javascript, Nodejs, and Golang, and has extensive experience in microservices and distributed systems. He is also proficient in working with various databases, including MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, MySQL, Redis, and Memcache. Additionally, Rohit has experience working with Kafka and NATS. At Rapido, Rohit is responsible for the architecture of payments, ledger, redeem, and wallets. He ensures that the platform is scalable, stable, and highly available, with a focus on failure recovery. In his previous role as Lead Product Engineer I at Rapido, Rohit led the entire payments platform, managing money coming in and going out, and supporting different payment options and redeems for end-users. He also designed the architecture of the system, ledger, and recon. Before joining Rapido, Rohit worked as a Senior Software Engineer across all the tech domains of the company. He focused on stabilization and scaling, ensuring that the platform could handle the increasing traffic and demand. Rohit holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Computer Science from Acharya Institute, where he graduated in 2013. He also completed his SSC from D.A.V. Public School, Cantt. Area, Gaya in 2006. Rohit's technical skills include NodeJS, Java, Javascript, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Redis, MemCache, MySQL, Kafka, microservices, backend, search, AWS, DevOps, Cassandra, Redux, frontend, web, and senior software engineering. He is a highly motivated and dedicated professional who is committed to delivering high-quality work and achieving exceptional results.