Rahul Kohli

• Lead and manage a team of 12 engineers, owning end-to-end delivery of system and product initiatives.
• Delivered Transportation Manager platform in 3 months, followed by continuous feature releases on a 2-week release cycle.
• Increased sprint velocity by 2x by driving adoption of AI tools (GitHub Copilot) and improving engineering workflows.
• Led enterprise integration transformation from point-to-point integrations to a scalable platform by designing a client-facing Integration Studio with reusable domain adapters and product connectors.
• Defined architecture and execution roadmap for end-to-end integration standardization, improving scalability and reducing integration complexity.
• Achieved $600K cost reduction by leading SpiceDB decommissioning and redesign, simplifying authorization architecture.
• Led cross-team execution using Scrum of Scrums, ensuring alignment across multiple stakeholders and dependent systems.
• Owned hiring and scaling efforts, hiring 4–5 engineers and strengthening team capability.
• Conducted performance reviews and mentored engineers, including improving performance of low performers.
• Led client data migration and enabled auto-scaling infrastructure for improved system reliability.
• Transitioned observability from Datadog to Grafana, optimizing monitoring efficiency.
• Built scalable systems using Kafka and Kafka Streams (event-driven architecture).
• Managed deployments using OpenShift, Kubernetes, and Helm.

• Led development of mission-critical microservices using Spring Boot and Quarkus.
• Designed and implemented CI/CD pipelines, improving deployment speed and reliability.
• Mentored engineers and contributed to architecture decisions for scalable backend systems.

SHL (Aspiring Minds) | Jan 2019 – Feb 2022

• Led backend development and collaborated with product teams to deliver scalable solutions.
• Improved system performance and reliability through optimized backend services.
• Managed client communication and technical delivery.

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) | Mar 2015 – Mar 2019

• Developed Java-based applications and REST APIs.
• Improved performance and enabled third-party integrations.