# Rajesh Somavarapu > Staff Software Engineer at Sift | Ex-Groupon Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/rajeshsomavarapu I am a software engineer with experience building backend features, services and platform systems for consumer and enterprise products, and contributing across the stack when needed. My work spans distributed systems, data processing, and reliability-focused applications, with an emphasis on building maintainable systems that evolve with product and business needs. I am most effective in roles that involve owning systems and services end-to-end, driving architectural improvements, and mentoring engineers while staying hands on across design and implementation. I learn quickly, adapt easily, and have a strong growth mindset. ## Work Experience ### Staff Software Engineer @ Sift Jan 2019 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area Fraud prevention platform serving customers like DoorDash, X (Twitter), Twilio, Yelp, McDonald’s, and others. • Owned and delivered multiple mission critical services across risk scoring and decisioning workflows, supporting high volume customer traffic and strict reliability requirements. • Mentored and supported engineers across seniority levels, contributing to multiple promotions, and influenced platform standards around reliability, scalability, and operational excellence. ### Software Engineer III @ Groupon Jan 2014 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area Worked in the relevance data team which is responsible for building data platform/infrastructure used by relevance infra and ranking teams. Primary technologies: Apache Beam, Apache Kafka, Apache Storm, Cassandra, and Redis ### Intern @ Theatro Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex Theatro (acquired by Motorola) had around 20 employees when I worked there as an intern. - Worked on the problem of indoor localization (wrote code to solve the problem of selecting random landmarks in a given location grid and assigning them to the collectors) - Established the test automation framework that utilizes virtual devices to test Theatro Voice activated Communications Application using Python and pytest. ### Summer Intern @ Autodesk Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 Part of the Autodesk Factory Design Suite team. - Enhanced the RESTful APIs for the Autodesk Factory Asset Warehouse (cloud asset access) using C#. - Analyzed web server logs to project future server load by writing Microsoft Log Parser queries and by using Microsoft Power Pivot. ### Software Engineer I @ Ixia Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | Bengaluru, Karnataka, India In 2013, Ixia ranked 14th on Forbes' list of the 25 fastest-growing tech companies. Part of the team which works on IxN2X product which is designed to test IP forwarding devices such as routers and switches that deliver video, VoIP, data services and business VPNs - Enhanced Setup Multicast VPN Productivity Application which is used to automate the configuration and testing of Multicast VPNs. - Contributed to IxN2X QuickTest library which includes scripts to automate functional and performance testing of routing and switching devices. ### Intern @ JDA Software Jan 2010 – Jan 2010 Translated all aspects of JDA Logistics Sourcing 7.6.1 and JDA Contract Management 7.6 in French and Spanish using Java Internationalization. ### Summer Intern @ Nanyang Technological University Jan 2010 – Jan 2010 Part of School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University and my supervisor was Assoc Prof Ramakrishna Kakarala. - Developed the image rating system using PHP for a photography experiment - Contributed to the evaluation of the consistency between ACQUINE (Automatic Photo Rating) and human judges using Spearman and Kendall tau rank correlation. ### Summer Intern @ Indian Overseas Bank Jan 2009 – Jan 2009 Part of the Information Technology Department. Worked on Skillset Management Web Application Project using HTML, PHP and MySQL. ## Education ### Master of Science - MS in Computer Science The University of Texas at Dallas ### Master of Science (Technology) in Information Systems Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/rsomavarapu --- Source: https://flows.cv/rajeshsomavarapu JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/rajeshsomavarapu/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-12