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Rutuja Kawade

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in cloud infrastructure and distributed systems

RakutenGeorgia TechAtlanta, GA3 Years ExperienceMid LevelWorks On-Site

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Cloud infrastructure/product engineer with end-to-end ownership of cloud-native storage/observability products, including taking an internal CMS to Google Cloud Marketplace and scaling to ~40,000 deployments. Strong in Kubernetes-based platforms (Operators, microservices, RabbitMQ) and performance/scalability work (e.g., 200% cluster capacity increase) plus internal tooling that materially improved SRE/QA debugging and release velocity.

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Key Strengths

  • Owned and scaled a cloud media storage/CMS product from internal to production and Google Marketplace (~40,000 installations)
  • Built CI/CD pipeline with thorough testing to balance speed and quality
  • Resolved major scalability bottleneck via async I/O/parallel execution, increasing supported cluster size by ~200%
  • Designed observability/resource-usage billing system across thousands of Kubernetes clusters with REST APIs for CLI and web dashboard
  • Standardized deployments across GCP/AWS/on-prem using Kubernetes Operators; reduced inconsistent behaviors and manual intervention
  • Built automated centralized log collection and dashboard adopted by QA/SRE, significantly reducing manual debugging time
  • Implemented reliable async microservice job handling with RabbitMQ, including idempotency checks and heartbeat-based failover

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Experience

Software Engineer IIRakuten · Jul 2022 – Jul 2025
Project ContributorMicrosoft · Oct 2021 – Dec 2021contract
Software Development InternAvaya Inc · Jun 2021 – Sep 2021internship

Education

Georgia Techmaster, Computer Science (Specialization: Computing Systems & ML) (2026)
Pune Institute of Computer Technologybachelor, Computer Science (2022)

Languages

English

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Rutuja KawadeMid-level Software Engineer specializing in cloud infrastructure and distributed systems