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Work History
Education
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Raj Geriya

Raj Geriya

Backend Lead | Platform Engineer
Bengaluru

Summary

8+ years of experience, Building Backend and Platform services for products in startups at various scales and managing small, diverse and highly efficient engineering teams. Experienced in working with Jira, Confluence and Agile Methodologies.

Strives to develop innovative solutions and design highly performant architectures and constantly improve them. Detail-oriented team player with strong organisational skills. Ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously with a high degree of accuracy. Hobby guitarist, musician and foodie.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience
5
5

Companies

Work History

DevOps Lead

CustomerGlu
Bangalore
04.2023 - Current
  • Reduced Cloud costs by 60% in span of 11 Months
  • Introduced PR reviews, CI/CD pipelines for backend deployments
  • Lead backend team to incorporate automated Integration tests for critical APIs/Services
  • Introduced Datadog based monitoring and maintained API response times under 1.5 seconds for p99 and p95 for critical API requests.

Backend Lead

CustomerGlu
Bengaluru
07.2021 - 04.2023
  • Assessed project milestones/requirements for building SAAS features and Platform services.
  • Built Highly Scalable services in Golang for REST APIs and Event processors with MongoDB.
  • Migrated 10s of Mongo collections containing millions of documents to MongoDB Atlas with 0 downtime.
  • Built and Managed DevOps team to bring DevOps culture in organization.
  • Hired and Mentored 3 backend engineers, 2 DevOps engineers to scale up the team and Managed their deliverables + performance.
  • Improved AWS utilization with addition of new Golang based microservices and infrastructure.
  • Built Scalable Webhooks dispatcher and MQTT broker for Real-Time push communication between backend and CG SDKs integrated into Android, iOS, Flutter, React Native Apps.

Senior Software Engineer

Chefling
Bengaluru
04.2021 - 07.2021
  • Lead team of two and worked on development of React based Web App from scratch hosted at chefling.com.
  • Worked closely with product and design team to improve user experience for overall app.

Software Engineer

Chefling
Bengaluru
06.2019 - 03.2021
  • Built core recipe recommendation engine (Ready to Cook) from scratch using Elasticsearch that can handle advanced filtering, full text search and provides personalized recommendations based on user's pantry. Which is the one of the core USP of the product.
  • Built high performant APIs using Golang and Node for mobile app features like recipe management, meal planning, search, advanced filters, suggestions, Image optimization and real-time communication using socket.io.
  • Lead Architecture Review Board to improve and streamline architectural changes for Chefling, Conducted Bi-monthly meetings for upcoming features to improve existing feature implementations.
  • Adopted Apache kafka as message broker for microservices communication and migrated backend services from Rabbitmq / Redis messaging backend to kafka. Adopted MongoDB as application database and migrated critical MYSQL based microservices to MongoDB for better scalability.
  • Focused on user problems on high priority and helped increase the rating of the app from 3.1 to 4.3 on play store.

Full stack developer

Digiworks Solutions
Delhi
10.2018 - 06.2019
  • Built rest APIs for a SaaS platform to manage a chatbot based solution in hospitality industry. With laravel framework.
  • Worked on cryptocurrency alerts application to send out push notifications on price changes.

Full Stack Developer

IndiaBizForSale
Ahmedabad
06.2015 - 09.2018
  • Provided support and maintenance for Zend framework based platform for buying and selling business in India.
  • Upgraded Mysql based search with Apache SOLR having features like Keyword suggest, Search, Faceting, Filtering.
  • Migrated services from and to various cloud platforms.
  • Built micro services in java run by kubernetes deployed in a docker container for REST APIs, email, SMS, event data processing.
  • Built a event ingestion pipeline to capture data similar to google analytics with added geo location and client identification data points.
  • Created data model for the new platform.

System engineer and Developer

Mobilt
Ahmedabad
07.2014 - 07.2015
  • Built a face recognition desktop software which can lookup customers and provide discounts based on previous purchases.
  • Built APIs and Web dashboard for managing customer loyalty points, billing for customer facing android and iOS application.

Web Developer

Foodella
Ahmedabad
07.2014 - 06.2015
  • Created REST APIs for mobile app and restaurateur dashboard for managing on-demand food ordering and Monthly subscriptions.

Education

Bachelor's Degree - Computer Engineering

Ganpat University, Ahmedabad
06.2015 - 06.2018
  • During my bachelors, I learned more about fundamental computer engineering topics like algorithm design, networking, operating systems, system design, theory of computing.
  • Additionally I learned advanced topics like distributed computing, virtualization, big data storage, data science and machine learning and technologies like HDFS, map reduce and Spark.

Diploma - Ahmedabad, Computer Engineering

Nirma University, Ahmedabad
03.2012 - 05.2015
  • During my diploma I learned Networking, Data Structures, Operations systems, Programming languages, Software engineering.
  • I built a static code security analyzer for PHP.

Skills

Proficient in Golang and Nodejs, experienced in frameworks like express and gin-gonic

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Additional Information

  • Won Special award At IRIS 2009, Ahmedabad for a Science project titled "Latex of calotropis gigantea as natural fungicide"
  • Won Employee of the month twice Oct 2019 and March 2021 for High performance and launching of WebApp from Chefling.

Timeline

DevOps Lead - CustomerGlu
04.2023 - Current
Backend Lead - CustomerGlu
07.2021 - 04.2023
Senior Software Engineer - Chefling
04.2021 - 07.2021
Software Engineer - Chefling
06.2019 - 03.2021
Full stack developer - Digiworks Solutions
10.2018 - 06.2019
Ganpat University - Bachelor's Degree, Computer Engineering
06.2015 - 06.2018
Full Stack Developer - IndiaBizForSale
06.2015 - 09.2018
System engineer and Developer - Mobilt
07.2014 - 07.2015
Web Developer - Foodella
07.2014 - 06.2015
Nirma University - Diploma, Ahmedabad, Computer Engineering
03.2012 - 05.2015

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