Rahul Pradhan

Managed end-to-end production deployments for a live application serving 1000+ active users, operating automated CI/CD release pipelines to ensure deployment stability, minimize failures, and enable rapid rollback on incidents Diagnosed and resolved client-side database performance bottlenecks through query optimization, significantly reducing response latency for end users. Improved application reliability and responsiveness by implementing caching strategies and background synchronization, reducing redundant network calls, and improving uptime perception for users.

Platform Software Developer Intern - RecordBook (YC22) - Bengaluru, Karnataka

(2025-05 - 2025-10)

• Managed end-to-end production deployments for a live application serving 1000+ active users, operating automated CI/CD release pipelines to ensure deployment stability, minimize failures, and enable rapid rollback on incidents
• Diagnosed and resolved client-side database performance bottlenecks through query optimization, significantly reducing response latency for end users.
• Improved application reliability and responsiveness by implementing caching strategies and background synchronization, reducing redundant network calls, and improving uptime perception for users.

Software Engineer Intern - Toguzo - Piplub product (Streaming Platform) - Bengaluru, Karnataka

(2024-06 - 2025-02)

• Deployed and operated distributed backend services using ExpressJS and MongoDB on cloud infrastructure, supporting real-time streaming workloads and optimizing system throughput under high-traffic conditions.
• Diagnosed and resolved backend performance bottlenecks, reducing API latency, monitoring system health via Prometheus and Grafana to respond to alerts and perform root cause analysis.
• Designed and maintained CI/CD pipelines to automate build and deployment workflows, improving release reliability and reducing manual operational toil.
• Led production debugging and incident triaging across a 5+ engineer team, maintaining service reliability while contributing to 20+ production feature deployments

Bachelor's Degree - Computer Science and System Engineering - Reva University (2021-11 - 2025-11)