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Rahul Purohit ( )

@rahulpurohit

7yrs+ exp backend developer skilled in large-scale backend architecture and cross-platform app development for Linux, macOS, and Windows.

India
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Software engineer with a strong systems mindset and a bias toward building things that actually work in production. Over the years, I’ve designed and owned backend services, distributed systems, and integration-heavy platforms where reliability, observability, and scale matter more than theoretical elegance.

My core strength lies in taking messy, real-world problems—legacy systems, flaky dependencies, unclear requirements—and turning them into maintainable, well-architected solutions. I care deeply about correctness, performance, and long-term operability, and I’m comfortable working close to the metal when needed, whether that’s debugging production issues, optimizing data pipelines, or improving system resilience.

I enjoy roles where I can operate as a technical owner: shaping architecture, writing critical code, mentoring engineers, and collaborating closely with product and stakeholders. I value clear thinking, pragmatic decision-making, and engineering discipline over hype-driven trends.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Celigo logoCE
Current

SSE 2

Sep 2023 - Present (2 years 9 months)

SME and owner of 2 services -
1. Celigo On Premise Agent ( was legacy when assigned ownership)
2. Celigo MCP Servers ( Designed and Implemented by me and a small team led by me)

Velocity logoVE

Senior Software Engineer

Jun 2018 - Aug 2023 (5 years 2 months)

1. Led design and development of a groundbreaking B2B payments platform processing $5M in transactions daily across web, mobile, and backend components.
2. Implemented automatic deployments with Helm charts, established centralized logging and system monitoring, and developed a design system for the React Native product with Storybook.

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

DIT University logoDU

DIT University

Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science

2014 - 2018

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