Raj Rathi
@rajrathi
Senior Staff Software Engineer building scalable AWS/Azure cloud storage and SaaS platforms with performance-focused leadership.
What I'm looking for
I’m a senior staff software engineer and software developer with 5 years of experience building scalable applications. I lead engineering efforts across cloud-based systems, with a consistent focus on performance and reliability, including a 30% reduction in server response time across multiple projects.
At Druva Data Solutions Private Limited, I contribute to the core storage team and help design and build a next-generation cloud storage architecture. I led a control plane migration from regional to master architecture with zero downtime—covering database and compute migration—and reduced dead-load cost by ~30%.
I also strengthened critical storage capabilities as a Staff Software Engineer, enhancing provisioning algorithms to dynamically scale DynamoDB IOPS based on real-time consumption and throttling. This delivered ~10% efficiency improvement and COGS reduction, while resolving 20+ critical defects to significantly improve storage platform stability.
I’m the kind of engineer who turns ambiguity into measurable outcomes—whether it’s building an in-memory DynamoDB implementation in Golang to accelerate testing by ~80%, optimizing DynamoDB read patterns to cut operational costs and improve API latency by ~40%, or developing shared SDK utilities to reduce SDK development time by 50–70%. I value cross-functional collaboration and earning trust through results, recognized by quarterly awards for deduplication, anomaly detection, early ransomware detection and recovery, and other high-impact improvements.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Senior Staff Software Engineer
Druva Data Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
Mar 2024 - Present (2 years 3 months)
Contributed to the core storage team designing next-generation cloud storage architecture and led a zero-downtime control plane migration from regional to master, including database and compute migration, reducing dead-load cost by ~30%. Implemented deduplication between legacy and new architectures and improved anomaly detection using FSCK with dashboard-based alerting.
Staff Software Engineer
Druva Data Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
Apr 2022 - Apr 2024 (2 years)
Enhanced provisioning algorithms to dynamically scale DynamoDB IOPS based on real-time consumption and throttling, improving efficiency by ~10% and reducing COGS. Strengthened core filesystem APIs for backup, restore, and disaster recovery, fixing 20+ critical defects and building an in-memory DynamoDB in Go that accelerated component-level testing by ~80%.
Software Engineer
Druva Data Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
Aug 2020 - Mar 2022 (1 year 7 months)
Optimized DynamoDB read patterns, reducing operational costs and improving API execution latency by ~40%. Developed a shared SDK utility framework (middleware, tracing, error handling, authentication), reducing SDK development time by 50–70%.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
Pune Institute of Computer Technology
Bachelor of Engineering, Information Technology
2016 - 2020
Grade: CGPA: 8.9/10
Activities and societies: Company-Wide Hackathon Winner (Druva, 2023) for reducing FSCK execution time from 2 months to 15 days; Best Paper Award, ETAB Conference (2020), “E-Voting Using Blockchain”; 2nd Runner-Up, INC (2020) selected from 200+ entries for a blockchain-based e-voting solution.
Earned a B.E. in Information Technology from Pune Institute of Computer Technology (2016–2020), achieving a CGPA of 8.9/10.
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