Rajath Rao

Senior Software Engineer | London, UK

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About Me

Software Engineer with 7+ years of experience building scalable microservices using Python, Django, and FastAPI. Proven track record designing backend systems on AWS for financial and analytics platforms. Passionate about GenAI integration and cloud-native automation.

Career Journey

Software Engineer

Intropic, London

Aug 2025 - Present
  • Building FastAPI microservices on AWS for AI-driven financial analytics
  • Integrating GenAI capabilities using prompt engineering and LLM orchestration
  • Designing production-ready systems for AI-assisted decision-making

Vice President, Software Engineer

Goldman Sachs, London

Jun 2022 - Aug 2025
  • Built high-performance Python microservices on AWS using FastAPI and PostgreSQL
  • Migrated RDS to Aurora Serverless v2 for improved performance and cost-efficiency
  • Engineered end-to-end monitoring for on-prem and AWS systems
  • Refactored legacy systems to reduce technical debt

Senior Software Engineer

Tech Mahindra / Infoblox, India

Mar 2021 - Jul 2022
  • Developed network security solutions for enterprise DNS monitoring
  • Built FastAPI microservices with Docker and Kubernetes

Software Engineer

NextOrbit, Bangalore

Nov 2018 - Mar 2021
  • Implemented text similarity algorithms for search and recommendation
  • Built data pipelines for real-time multi-gigabyte dataset ingestion

IT Analyst

IBM

Dec 2017 - Oct 2018
  • Built internal email automation tools
  • Created analytics reports using Tableau and IBM Watson

Technical Expertise

Backend Development

Python FastAPI Django REST APIs Microservices

Cloud & DevOps

AWS Terraform Docker Kubernetes CI/CD

Databases

PostgreSQL Aurora Redis Data Pipelines

AI & Machine Learning

GenAI LLM Integration Prompt Engineering NLP

Credentials

AWS Solutions Architect

Associate

HashiCorp Terraform

Associate

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Tableau

Data Visualization

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Data Science

NLP Specialization

Academic Background

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Bachelor of Engineering

Visvesvaraya Technological University

2013 - 2017