Staff Software Engineer

Rohan Kapoor

I build fast, reliable systems — and the teams that keep them that way.

Remote · Pune, India rohan@example.com +91 98765 43210

Ten years shipping backend and infra at scale — payments, real-time data, and platforms that stay up under load. I like small interfaces, boring reliability, and mentoring engineers into their next level.

RK
10+years shipping
99.98%uptime held
6engineers mentored
2B+requests/day
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Stack & strengths

GoTypeScriptPostgreSQLKubernetesDistributed systemsObservability
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Experience

Staff Engineer2020 — present
Payflow (fintech)

Lead the payments platform handling 2B+ requests a day. Cut p99 latency 40% and drove the migration to a cell-based architecture with zero customer downtime.

Senior Backend Engineer2015 — 2020
Streamly

Built the real-time events pipeline from scratch and owned it to 500M events/day. On-call lead who made on-call actually calm.

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Education

B.Tech, Computer ScienceIIT Bombay
2014
CKA — Certified Kubernetes AdminCNCF
2019
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Kind words

Rohan makes hard systems look simple and makes the engineers around him better. A true multiplier.

Meera IyerEng Director, Payflow

The most reliable engineer I've worked with. If Rohan built it, I sleep well.

Sam OkoyeCTO, Streamly

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Building something ambitious that needs to stay up? Let's chat.