Hello! 👋 I'm Rajat

Backend Engineer with 4+ years of experience, currently at Amazon as an SDE2 building production-grade payment services. Previously at tiket.com, one of Southeast Asia's leading online travel agencies. I specialize in designing and scaling high-throughput, fault-tolerant distributed systems — the kind that silently handle millions of requests so everything just works.

My work spans payment pipeline modernization on AWS, event-driven architectures with Kafka, scalable microservices on Kubernetes, real-time data pipelines using CDC, and deep performance optimization — always with an eye toward cost efficiency and resilient observability.

I believe great engineering is built on strong ownership, thorough system thinking, and relentless curiosity. I like working end-to-end — from design discussions and API contracts to deployment and monitoring in production.

Outside of Work

When I'm not pushing to production, you'll find me trekking in the hills, at the gym, reading about history and geography, practicing meditation or yoga, or writing down ideas that have been knocking around in my head.