I'm Rahul — a senior engineer with 6+ years building distributed systems and full-stack platforms in Golang, Kotlin, React and AWS. Currently at Zalando, where I cut order-to-invoice cycles from two weeks to two days.
I started out shipping Android apps with VR/AR side-quests, then moved to Berlin to build identity infrastructure for one of Europe's largest automotive groups — an OIDC platform serving 10M+ customers across a family of consumer brands.
Today I'm at Zalando, where I led the architecture and rollout of an order-to-invoice automation platform — event-driven Go services behind a Next.js frontend, replacing a two-week manual process with a two-day pipeline.
The thread across my work: I like boring, reliable systems that quietly remove human toil. I care about the part where we get the thing into production — talking to merchandising teams, walking SCM through edge cases, iterating on the workflow until it actually fits the org.
Outside engineering: tinkering with on-device ML, reading too much about the history of databases, and slowly getting better at German grammar.
Architected and shipped an event-driven full-stack platform — Golang services, Next.js console — that compresses a two-week manual process into a two-day pipeline, saving business teams ~5 hours/week.
Automation pipelines for product data quality and price synchronization across catalogs — reliability climbed to ~99.9%, contributing to 86% YoY revenue growth in the Beauty Station business.
Designed and built a centralized identity layer for consumer-facing software across an automotive group — Kotlin/Spring Boot backend, React frontend, federation for a family of brands at consumer scale.
Architected an internal consent-management product end-to-end: Golang backend, React UI, AWS CDK as the source of truth for infrastructure. Designed the data model, ran the rollout, owned the on-call.
Migrated production apps onto Android Architecture Components and was the primary contributor on a special-projects group exploring VR/AR experiences for the retail platform — early career, formative work.
The best systems don't ask to be admired. They ask to be forgotten.
Order-to-invoice automation, product data enrichment, price sync. Cross-functional rollout with SCM, Merchandising and Product teams. End-to-end ownership from requirements to production.
Centralized OIDC platform serving 10M+ customers across the group. Architected and shipped an internal consent-management product. Maintained infrastructure-as-code with AWS CDK.
Mentored junior developers in a React Native training cohort. Contributed to a medical-portal product built in React.js.
Adopted Android Architecture Components across production apps. Primary contributor on a special-projects group focused on VR/AR experiences (T2X).
B.Tech in Instrumentation & Control Engineering at NIT Tiruchirappalli. PG Certification in Machine Learning & Deep Learning at IIIT Bangalore (CGPA 3.2/4).