# Ruturaj Choudhari > Senior / Staff Software Engineer Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/ruturajchoudhari I'm a problem solver at my core, and understanding deeply is my calling. This knowing has stuck with me, from 6 years old, when I first looked at the guts of a computer and thought "how does this green plastic turn into what I see on the screen?" It fuels my passion for Software Engineering. I consider my career another avenue to express and exercise these traits, rather than "just a job". ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Speak Jan 2025 – Present ### Lead Software Engineer @ Front Jan 2024 – Present - Boosted AI Answers product resolution rates by 34%, unlocking $100k+ ARR, by delivering a RAG pipeline benchmarking system in just 4 weeks. - Rewrote Chat product backend into a Public API handling 50M+ requests a day for customers worth $10M+ ARR total - Built iOS/Android SDKs from scratch within 3 months, unlocking $1M ARR in potential revenue - Launched Customer Portal, closing a top product gap for new business; influencing large deals worth $80K+ ARR each and serving existing customers valued at $5M+ ARR - Implemented major rich text editing functionality to Chat product’s bot builder influencing customers worth $10M+ ARR and unlocking other text editing features in the future ### Co-Founder, Head of Engineering @ Yup Math Tutoring Jan 2019 – Jan 2024 (acquired by Prenda Nov 2022) - Achieved ~$1M ARR and successful acquisition by driving all encompassing engineering strategy/OKRs that reduced feature development time by 2x despite headcount reduction and increased productivity of acquiring company’s engineering team by removing legacy backend code (~91% decrease in LLOC) - Created and refined hiring process (mix of technical screens, hiring manager calls, and behavioral/technical on-sites) and led to 2 mid-level and 1 senior engineering hire - Reduced code review time by 30% and frequency of post deploy bug fixes by 50% by establishing a technical design documentation process with 100% adoption rate across the engineering org - Modernized Ruby on Rails backend with minimal user impact by migrating from Rails 4.2 to 5.2 and designing a canary deployment processes on Heroku - Enabled Product/Operations analytics leading to 13% decrease in Tutor payroll costs by designing and implementing an event sourcing pipeline - Reduced costs by 50% of event sourcing pipeline infrastructure by moving from AWS (Lambda, SQS, RDS) to a Rails 7 app on Heroku ### Co-founder, Lead Software Engineer @ Yup Math Tutoring Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 - Led a team of 9 engineers conducting 1:1s for coaching and mentorship, performance reviews (including 2 performance improvement plans), and working with Product to prioritize work - Generated ~$1M in revenue over 24 months by leading Salesforce integration - Decreased response time by 99.99% by leading implementation of a service for monitoring, alerting, and observability - Increased developer productivity and system reliability by fixing broken test suite, reducing its run time from 20 min to 10 min (50% reduction), and integrating with CI platform ### Co-founder, Founding Software Engineer @ Yup Math Tutoring Jan 2013 – Jan 2018 - Developed an MVP achieving 20-30% growth WoW for the first 9 months consisting of a real-time chat messaging app and backend, all built in 2 weeks - Enabled critical business goals (iterating on payment model, increasing user engagement, improving student experience and tutor quality) by improving core apps and services totaling over 400+ features ### Software Engineer, iOS @ WillowTree Apps, Inc Jan 2011 – Jan 2013 - Implemented complete iOS apps end-to-end and supported others, averaging 30,000 LLOC - Collaborated with Product designers, backend engineers and other iOS/Android engineers - Designated DRI on many of the projects, responsible for communication with clients and final delivery ## Education ### BS in Computer Engineering & Computer Science University of Virginia ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ruturaj --- Source: https://flows.cv/ruturajchoudhari JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/ruturajchoudhari/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-31