Rajat Mehra
Bengaluru
Summary
Software engineer with 3 years of experience driving performance and reliability improvements across distributed systems. Designed k8s based job pipelines, optimized GraphQL alert routing, and contributed to data-engine migration from Trino to StarRocks, significantly improving analytical query performance and on-call efficiency.
Overview
3
3
years of professional experience
Work History
Software Engineer
Harness
Bangalore
03.2025 - Current
- Implemented solutions with Kubernetes jobs to speed up the reporting process using Java and Playwright.
- Delegated GraphQL alert ownership to the respective service teams, improving on-call efficiency and reducing the platform team's load.
- Extended the internal reporting framework to enable instant report delivery, eliminating the need for scheduled runs.
- Contributed in migrating analytical workloads from Trino to StarRocks, significantly enhancing query performance and response time.
- Worked on an intelligent Kafka partitioner tool to auto-configure partitions for tenant isolation, using historical usage data, optimizing multi-tenant resource utilization. This helps in optimal resource utilization.
Software Engineer
Traceable
Bangalore
08.2023 - 02.2025
- Automated the eBPF agent certification workflow for Bank of America, validating multiple configurations for over 1M app servers (JBoss, WebSphere, Tomcat, etc.). This automation reduced post-release issues to near zero.
- Automated the process of stale cloud resource cleanup, cutting monthly cloud costs by approximately 5%.
- Designed secure, public-facing GraphQL APIs for user CRUD operations, ensuring compliance with privacy and security standards.
Software Engineer Intern
Traceable
Bangalore
12.2022 - 07.2023
- Automated the end-to-end process of load testing agents, generating performance numbers, and creating presentable reports with comparative graphs as a Confluence document using Python and Confluence-provided APIs.
- Worked on adding ad hoc functionalities in test applications for Python, Java, Node, and Go agents.
- Implemented CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Robot Framework, Docker, and Kubernetes, cutting release certification time to less than 2 hours.
Education
Bachelor of Technology - Information Technology
Indian Institute of Information Technology
Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh05.2023
Senior Secondary -
Rural Education Development Sr Sec School
Jhajjar, Haryana05.2018
Skills
- Programming & Scripting: Java, Python, C, JavaScript, Shell, SQL
- Frameworks & Technologies: GraphQL, gRPC, Playwright, Robot Framework, Locust, REST
- Data & Analytics: Trino (Presto), StarRocks, MongoDB
- Cloud & Infrastructure: AWS (EC2, S3, Lambda, CloudWatch), GCP (Compute Engine, GKE, Pub/Sub)
- Monitoring & Observability: Prometheus, Grafana
Timeline
Software Engineer
Harness
03.2025 - Current
Software Engineer
Traceable
08.2023 - 02.2025
Software Engineer Intern
Traceable
12.2022 - 07.2023
Bachelor of Technology - Information Technology
Indian Institute of Information Technology
Senior Secondary -
Rural Education Development Sr Sec School