RPRaj Patel
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About
Backend engineer who builds systems that stay up. Nine years across high-throughput payments, streaming data, and developer platforms. I care about clean interfaces, observability, and shipping.
Experience
01
Senior Software Engineer
Cloudflare · 2021 – Present
- Own a globally distributed rate-limiting service handling 12M requests per second
- Cut p99 latency by 40 percent through a rewrite of the edge caching layer
- Mentor four engineers and run the team on-call and incident review process
02
Software Engineer
Stripe · 2017 – 2021
- Built idempotency and retry infrastructure for the core payments API
- Designed a ledger reconciliation pipeline processing billions of events per day
03
Backend Engineer
Rackspace · 2015 – 2017
- Developed internal tooling for provisioning and monitoring cloud infrastructure
Selected Projects
01
Edge Rate Limiter
Distributed rate limiting at the edge serving millions of requests per second.
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Ledger Reconciliation Pipeline
Event-driven reconciliation system for high-volume payment ledgers.
Capabilities
GoRustDistributed SystemsKubernetesPostgreSQLKafkaObservabilitygRPCSystem DesignIncident Response
Education
BS in Computer Science
University of Texas at Austin · 2011 – 2015
Good systems are boring. They do exactly what you expect at three in the morning.
Raj Patel