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Rahul Kushwaha - Software Engineer in Texas, USA

Rahul Kushwaha

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in FinTech and scalable microservices

PayPalSanta Clara UniversityTexas, USA5 Years ExperienceMid LevelWorks On-Site

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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.

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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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Experience

Software EngineerPayPal · Nov 2023 – Present
Full Stack DeveloperCapgemini · Jan 2019 – Aug 2021

Education

Santa Clara Universitymaster, Computer Science
Chhatrapati Shahu Ji Maharaj Universitybachelor, Information Technology

Languages

English

Certifications

AWS Cloud Developer Associate

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Rahul KushwahaMid-level Software Engineer specializing in FinTech and scalable microservices