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Rajat Katoch

@rajatkatoch

Backend & Platform Engineer — Python, Kubernetes, Data Integration

India
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Backend engineer building and operating Python data-integration pipelines on Kubernetes. Experience migrating large legacy codebases to Python, hardening services for multi-replica production, and root-causing failures that span application, container, and infrastructure layers.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Current

Senior Software Engineer

Aug 2024 - Present (2 years 2 months)

1. Owned the QxMD Holdings Management System, an SFTP-driven platform that replaced fragmented manual workflows with a single automated pipeline. 2. Separately migrated a large Perl article-link crawler to Python, defeating Cloudflare bot detection with Selenium Stealth and cloudscraper and cutting pod memory use through warm browser initialisation and autoscaling.

CI

Lead Software Engineer

Apr 2022 - Aug 2024 (2 years 4 months)

1. Developed and migrated various robust applications on AWS cloud for a global brokerage firm using Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, S3, SNS, SQS, Step Functions and other services.
2. Developed Generative AI projects on RAG based LLM approach using Cognitive services, Blob Storage, API Management and Azure Open AI services.

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Software Engineer

Associated broadcasting company pvt. ltd.

Apr 2021 - Apr 2022 (1 year)

Built a news monitoring system which helped in faster content delivery by scraping data from various publishers website using Python(NLP, Web Scraping), EC2(Linux), API Gateway(Content
Delivery), S3 and SQL(Storage).

Developed a cricket widget that was used to aggregate both historical and real-time match data, leveraging, AWS lambda, API Gateway, S3 and Amazon MQ.

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Data Analyst

vphrase analytics solutions pvt. ltd.

Feb 2019 - Apr 2021 (2 years 2 months)

Built Regression and Segmentation model for an AMC to predict their churn rate and to categorize people based on their portfolio in order to upsell. Analyzed data for various clients to extract useful insights. These insights were then presented in the form of automated reports which could be consumed periodically using the in-house product.

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

ST

SIES Graduate School of Technology

Bachelor of Engineering, Engineering

2014 - 2018

Grade: 6.91

Activities and societies: Publicity Team - 2015-2018

Pursued a Bachelor of Engineering degree at SIES Graduate School of Technology, affiliated with the University of Mumbai.

Tech stack

Software and tools used professionally

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