Rasool Khan
Bengaluru
Summary
Results-driven Software Development Engineer with expertise in Node.js, FastAPI, and micro-services. Proven ability to enhance application performance and lead teams to deliver impactful software solutions.
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
Work History
SDE - 2
FundsIndia
Bengaluru
08.2025 - Current
- Digitalised the PMS (Portfolio Management System) investment workflow by designing and delivering an end-to-end FastAPI-based application, improving system scalability and maintainability.
- Led a team of six to build and launch a risk profiling and fund recommender feature, driving the initiative from concept, requirements, through development, and production release.
- Developed automated financial reporting capabilities, generating PDF and Excel reports to present user investment data accurately and efficiently.
- Refactored critical components of a legacy Java codebase, optimising database queries, and significantly improving application performance and response times.
SDE - 2
Liquide
Bengaluru
01.2022 - 07.2025
- Architected and delivered the entire backend platform from 0→1, designing a microservices-based architecture in Node.js covering authentication, user management, portfolios, orders, and trading workflows.
- Built and scaled backend systems that supported Liquide’s growth from launch to 5M+ users, reliably handling 100K+ Daily Active Users.
- Designed and implemented real-time stock market data ingestion and analytics pipelines using Node.js, processing millions of live market price data points with high throughput and low latency.
- Led broker integration architecture for major Indian brokers (Zerodha, Dhan, Motilal Oswal), handling order placement, portfolio sync, webhooks, retries, and failure recovery.
- Owned sprint planning and technical execution, breaking down complex product requirements into scalable backend solutions with predictable delivery.
- Implemented async processing and background jobs for market data ingestion, broker callbacks, and reconciliation workflows to ensure system reliability under peak load.
- Mentored junior backend engineers through code reviews, architectural discussions, and performance tuning, establishing engineering best practices across the team.
SDE - 1
Cybermind Works
Chennai
08.2020 - 12.2021
- Developed and integrated RESTful APIs with services such as Kaleyra, Open Weather, Algolia, and payment gateways including Stripe and PayPal.
- Managed cloud infrastructure by configuring AWS RDS, Elastic Beanstalk, and S3; migrated deployments from Heroku to AWS.
- Implemented logging and monitoring systems with New Relic and SendGrid, establishing GitHub Actions for CI/CD processes.
- Led project lifecycle from initial setup to deployment, focusing on integration and application performance optimization.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science
Sathyabama University
Chennai, India07-2019
Skills
- Nodejs, FastAPI
- MongoDB, PostgreSQL
- Microservices, distributed systems
- Backend system design
- AWS services (SQS, S3, CloudWatch, Lambda)
- Team leadership
Personal Projects
DbCanva - Visual Database Schema Designer
11/2025 to Present
- Identified fundamental gaps in existing database modeling tools and built a developer-centric schema design platform focused on speed, clarity, and extensibility.
- Designed clear architectural boundaries between schema definition, visual graph rendering, and SQL generation.
- Defined a long-term architecture roadmap to support collaboration, schema versioning, change history, and enterprise workflows.
- Prioritized developer experience (DX) through intuitive interactions, fast feedback loops, and clean visual representations of complex relational models.
Product: https://www.dbcanva.com
Timeline
SDE - 2
FundsIndia
08.2025 - Current
SDE - 2
Liquide
01.2022 - 07.2025
SDE - 1
Cybermind Works
08.2020 - 12.2021
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science
Sathyabama University