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Rohini Rajagopalan

Director-level Engineering Leader specializing in SaaS, Cloud Migration, and Cybersecurity

CiscoTexas Tech UniversitySanta clara, CA8 Years ExperienceDirector LevelWorks On-Site

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Senior engineering leader with experience at Cisco, Amazon, and startup Shopkick, operating at high scale (e.g., Secure Web Gateway handling ~40M QPS). Known for measurable impact across reliability and cost (85% efficacy improvement; Datadog spend cut from ~$500k/month to ~$15k/month) and for leading complex platform modernization (1-year monolith-to-microservices/event-driven migration with zero customer impact) plus compatibility-focused API design that cut device onboarding from a month to a day.

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Key Strengths

  • Managed and developed 10-person engineering org (direct/indirect) with quarterly delivery commitments
  • Improved Secure Web Gateway efficacy by 85% at Cisco (40M QPS, ~4,000 customers)
  • Reduced Datadog spend from ~$500k/month to ~$15k/month
  • Implemented nightly regression runs catching ~90% of bugs in lower environments
  • Led 1-year monolith-to-microservices migration with event-based architecture and improved observability; zero customer impact
  • Built phased execution plan using contractors to automate CI/CD, then implement feature-by-feature migration
  • Designed device-facing APIs with backward/forward compatibility; reduced new device onboarding from 1 month to 1 day
  • Data-driven conflict resolution and standards enforcement in code reviews (e.g., migrating from custom image library to Glide)

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Experience

Founding Engineer @Encore SolutionsEncore Solutions · Aug 2025 – Present
HeadofSecureWebGateway@Cisco - CybersecurityCisco · Aug 2022 – Jul 2025
Engineering Leader @ Amazon Firetv AdsAmazon · Mar 2021 – Jun 2022
Engineering Leader @ Shopkick Inc - Ads PlatformShopkick Inc · May 2018 – Feb 2021

Education

Texas Tech Universitymaster, Computer Science

Awards

  • Best product innovation for automating Ad delivery in multiple marketplace
  • Won hackathon 2 times in a row for new ideas and improving quality of Ads

Languages

English

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Rohini RajagopalanDirector-level Engineering Leader specializing in SaaS, Cloud Migration, and Cybersecurity