Rajat Upadhyay
@rajatupadhyay
Senior software engineer specializing in backend systems and cloud integrations.
What I'm looking for
I am a senior software engineer with strong backend, cloud and API experience, built on an IIT Indore B.Tech foundation. I have designed and delivered production services—dashboards, billing integrations, trial flows, liveness-detection, subtitle pipelines and data-sync systems—using Python, Flask, SQLAlchemy and AWS.
I focus on measurable impact: reducing API latency from seconds to ~100ms, enabling subtitle generation at scale for 20,000+ videos daily, implementing robust CI/CD and containerized services, and improving security and reliability through ACLs, retries and monitoring integrations.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Senior Software Engineer
AiPrise Inc.
Mar 2024 - Present (1 year 6 months)
Designed and implemented a user dashboard for KYC tracking, integrated billing with Stripe and Sequence for feature-level usage, and built a trial period feature to increase engagement; developed a liveness detection service using Flask, SQLAlchemy and AWS Lambda to reduce video fraud.
Software Engineer
Rephrase AI
Nov 2022 - Jun 2023 (7 months)
Built a multi-language subtitle generation service handling 20,000+ videos daily and implemented AWS DataSync automation; integrated AWS with New Relic for infra dashboards and mitigated throttling via a retry/backoff mechanism.
Software Engineer
Invideo AI
Dec 2021 - Oct 2022 (10 months)
Implemented inter-service auth and optimized critical APIs to reduce latency from ~2s to ~100ms via SQLAlchemy query tuning and indexing; fixed a critical IDOR by adding ACL controls using Pyramid and SQLAlchemy.
Software Development Engineer
Innocavver
May 2019 - Dec 2021 (2 years 7 months)
Improved search performance by creating index tables across 50+ tables, implemented CI/CD with GitLab-CI/Docker/Sonar and built a containerized data sync service using AWS SQS/S3/Lambda achieving 90%+ test coverage.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
Indian Institute of Technology Indore
Bachelor of Technology, Engineering
Completed a Bachelor of Technology program at the Indian Institute of Technology Indore, graduating in 2020.
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