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Rahul Kushwaha
Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in FinTech and scalable microservices
Texas, USASoftware Engineer5 years experienceMid-LevelFinTechFinancial ServicesPayments
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Backend/platform engineer focused on high-traffic financial systems, owning real-time event-driven ingestion and Kafka streaming pipelines using Python/FastAPI, Avro schemas, and AWS services. Has hands-on Kubernetes (EKS) and GitOps/CI-CD experience (ArgoCD/Jenkins) and supported large-scale migrations from legacy VMs to containerized microservices with zero/low-downtime cutovers.
Experience
Software EngineerPayPal
Full Stack DeveloperCapgemini
Education
Santa Clara Universitymaster, Computer Science
Kanpur Universitybachelor, Information Technology
Key Strengths
- Designed end-to-end real-time financial data ingestion pipeline (Python microservices + AWS + Kafka)
- Strong schema management for streaming systems (Avro schema registry, evolution rules, backward compatibility)
- Built low-latency, high-throughput event processing with async processing, concurrency control, and Celery workers
- Kubernetes production operations on AWS EKS (Helm, autoscaling, scheduling constraints, secure container hardening)
- GitOps-style infrastructure management with PR-based changes, automated validation, and rollback capability
- Led migration of legacy VM-based services to containerized Kubernetes with dependency assessment and safe cutover
- Improved quality and delivery via increased test coverage (pytest) and CI/CD automation (Jenkins/ArgoCD)
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