# Rachit Mahendra

> Staff Software Engineer @ Snap Inc. | Ads Delivery

Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/rachit

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Snap Inc.
Jan 2026 – Present | Palo Alto, CA
Designing and scaling real-time ad delivery systems at Snap, focused on ranking, retrieval, and experimentation infrastructure that serves personalized ads to hundreds of millions of users.

### Software Engineer @ Snap Inc.
Jan 2021 – Jan 2026 | Palo Alto, California, United States
Working in the Ads Delivery Infrastructure team with a focus on ads inference.

### Software Development Engineer @ Bloomberg LP
Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | Greater New York City Area
Worked in Distributed Engines team under Equity organization to build exciting features for the Bloomberg Terminal backend.

- Built a microservice from scratch to serve Equity data and optimized it for large data request loads and lower latency. 
- Designed and built a pipeline leveraging messaging queues to process real-time diffs for A/B testing to aid in backend migration.
- Constructed a POC for an end to end real-time in-memory cache framework for frequently used Equity data fields. 
- Integrated various new features for enhancing the existing capabilities of several microservices.

### Undergraduate Research Assistant @ University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area
Worked under Professor Rajesh Rajamani, in Center for Transportation Studies, to develop an algorithm and build a mobile app, using various maps apis to efficiently determine the nearest intersection point on the road for the Novel Collision-Avoidance System for Bicycles.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Microsoft
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Greater Seattle Area
Worked on Bing , AI & Research in local data platform , to improve local search experience using Machine learning and Natural Language Processing.

### Android Application Developer @ Webarch
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Aided in development of an android application for a national level technical festival organized in India.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Computer Science
University of Minnesota

### CORe Credential of Readiness
Harvard Business School Online

### Nanodegree in Natural Language Processing
Udacity


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/rachitmahendra

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Last updated: 2026-04-12