# Rajat Arora

> Engineering @ Ripple

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/rajatarora

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Ripple
Jan 2023 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
Building RLUSD Stablecoin

### Senior Software Engineer @ Twitter
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area
• Designed and implemented internal communications orchestration system, using Scala, that allows content moderators and public Twitter users to interact.
• Part of initial team to adopt AWS SES, using Terraform at Twitter.
• Helped improve and maintain other privacy health services used by agents for content moderation.
• Responsible for triaging and mitigating operational incidents as part of an on-call rotation.

### Staff Software Engineer @ Ellie Mae
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022
•	Designed and developed a high-volume distributed API platform following a RESTful microservices pattern - used Java Spring boot, Python, PostgreSQL, Kafka and Docker.
•	Extensively leveraged AWS Lambda and AWS ECS to improve service performance by > 80%.
•	Implemented Resilience4j circuit breakers to improve resiliency across the platform.
•	Integrated Elastic APMs for observability and traceability across services.
•	Leveraged Spring Cloud backed by AWS Systems Manager for efficient configuration management.
•	Developed CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and Terraform to automate deployment of over 40 microservices.
•	Helped develop and maintain companywide Java framework and Terraform modules, used by more than 20 other teams.
•	As a technical lead, mentored junior engineers and helped them grow their technical skills.
•	Won the 2021 internal hackathon by building a reverse auctioning platform for our mortgage services network.

### Senior Software Engineer @ Ellie Mae
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Software Platform Engineer II @ Ellie Mae
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Student Assistant @ San Francisco State University
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Teaching Assistant @ San Francisco State University
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area
Teaching Assistant for CSC 780: Application Development for Mobile Devices

### Software Developer @ Tata Consultancy Services
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | Gurgaon, India
• Developed Customer On-boarding modules for the web application based on Java and Spring framework.
• Implemented SOAP and REST web services for interfacing with core banking.
• Implemented Apache JCR on multi-cluster environment.
• Developed Jasper reports in iReports 5.5.
• Lead of 4-member team for development of forms, messages, and reports for client using Java/J2EE.
• Twice been awarded 'On-The-Spot' certificate for providing quick solutions to complex functionalities.

### Intern Programmer @ Varshyl Tech Pvt. Ltd.
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | New Delhi
Worked as a back-end developer on a Library Management System.


## Education
### Master of Science (MS) in Computer Science
San Francisco State University

### Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) in Computer Science
SRM IST Chennai


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/rajatar08

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Last updated: 2026-04-12