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Rahul Shelar
Staff Software Engineer, Tech Lead
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Location: Santa Clara, California, United StatesApprox. Years of Experience: 25
Rahul Shelar's Current Workplace
Google
Company Size
2500+
Amount Raised
$26.1M
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Sequoia Capital, Jeff Bezos, Kleiner Perkins, Andy Bechtolsheim, Ram Shriram
Google
UX Design
Product Management
Software Engineering
Experience
Google
Feb 2017 - Present
Staff Software Engineer, Tech Lead
Nov 2023 - Present
1 yr 6 mos
• Spearheaded the development and launch of two core infrastructure 0 -> 1 multi quarter projects, enabling 1800 projects within Google Cloud engineering to track and improve software development lifecycle best practices. Both of these are multi-quarter projects with the whole Google Cloud Platform engineering org as TAM (some features are used by teams outside of GCP). • Led a team of 8 engineers in designing scalable platforms resulting in a 30% improvement in code health for 75% of Google Cloud teams. • Collaborated with stakeholders and senior leadership to drive strategic alignment and deliver impactful solutions. . Designed and led the development of the Guardrails framework architecting it as a generic, pluggable policy evaluation engine capable of dynamically incorporating various reliability policies without needing major refactoring. - Built a service that aggregates data from multiple internal data warehouse sources and evaluates policies with low latency (sub 100ms). - Designed mechanisms for frictionless adoption including an advisory mode, breakglass features for emergency overrides, and opt-in/opt-out controls. - Drove evangelism, GTM and adoption strategies for both projects. Guardrails is a highly scalable (1K QPS) and low latency (~100ms for policy evaluation) system that aggregates data from multiple sources, designed as generic, pluggable, hierarchy based policy evaluation engine capable of dynamically incorporating various reliability policies, designed mechanisms for frictionless adoption including an advisory mode, breakglass features for emergency overrides, and opt-in/opt-out controls. Rel360 Goals is a platform for monitoring key performance metrics. Designed an aggregator pipeline which reads 150M rows of data daily and aggregates it over a hierarchical graph. Provides features such as reporting, notification, goal setting, daily/monthly/quarterly datasets. Skills: Distributed Systems · Agile Project Management · Team Leadership · Cross-functional Team Leadership · Scalability
Senior Software Engineer, Tech Lead
Feb 2017 - Present
8 yrs 3 mos
- Led a team of 4 engineers in redesigning the core CI system for Google Hire, improving scalability and reliability. - Presented a Tech Talk on Hire CI system to the engineering org, showcasing expertise in NodeJS, Python, and Bash scripting. - Implemented a grpc service in NodeJs for OAuth2 based login in test infrastructure, enhancing system security. - Reduced build time from >2h to <45 mins by optimizing the build workflow and automating artifact uploads.
Member of Technical Staff, Infrastructure and Engineering Productivity
Rubrik, Inc.
Nov 2015 - Nov 2016
1 yr 1 mo
• Designed and developed Launcher framework for complete test life cycle management. • Delivered robust Test infrastructure with over 60 test Jenkins jobs per pipeline. • Enabled engineering organizations to support multiple test pipelines for different releases.
Staff Software Design Engineer in Test
Ooyala
Apr 2014 - Oct 2015
1 yr 7 mos
• Led test strategy for Media Platform team at Ooyala, managing SDET resources and offshore vendor team to drive product quality and customer onboarding. • Developed automation for end-to-end scenarios and APIs, including a custom video content ingestion system for a key client. • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to build a next-gen Content Management system using Ruby, SQL, and Rest API.
Lead Member of Technical Staff
Salesforce.com
Apr 2011 - Mar 2014
3 yrs
Led the development and quality assurance of the "Salesforce for Outlook" product, overseeing testing challenges and automation infrastructure. - Owned quality of "Salesforce for Outlook" product, ensuring seamless synchronization between Microsoft Outlook and Salesforce account. - Addressed testing challenges of client-side product, managing various Windows and Outlook versions. - Managed automation framework and test infrastructure on Jenkins, enhancing efficiency and reliability. - Owned quality of "Salesforce for Outlook" product - Standalone exe for Windows that syncs Contacts, Events and Tasks data between Microsoft Outlook and Salesforce account (in the cloud). - Solved several challenges of testing a client side product such as myriad of supported configuration combinations of Windows and Outlook versions.
Microsoft
Jan 2004 - 2011
Software Design Engineer II
2009 - 2011
2 yrs
Worked in Exchange Online (Part of Office 365 suite of services) - Exchange online was shipped as cloud based email service as part of Office 365 suite of services. https://products.office.com/en-us/business/explore-office-365-for-business Technologies: C#, .NET, contributed to an in-house built VM based test infrastructure used to power testing of complete Exchange product. ● Group leader in cross team Office 365 testing effort. Presented test strategy to Corporate VP of Office, Microsoft. ● Implemented test strategy and tools for extremely critical business process of provisioning massive load of users in Exchange online system from BPOS system. Worked closely with primary stakeholders. ● Implemented MsoProvisioning tool which was used to set up MSO server on test virtual machines. Strong cross group collaboration experience across teams in various divisions in the company.
Software Engineer II
May 2007 - Nov 2009
2 yrs 7 mos
Worked in Dynamics Online Services team which provided a set of supplementary online services to Microsoft Dynamics CRM product. Technologies: C#, .NET, ASP.NET Worked on a service which allowed users to create a landing page and select ad words and create a ad campaign in Microsoft Bing search engine. Collaborated with Microsoft Research teams and acted as Quality lead on Keyword Extraction and Bid optimization projects in Internet Marketing service team. Won Microsoft Research Technology transfer award for successfully shipping these products. 1. Bid optimization : This was an implementation of Knapsack algorithm. Premise: You are a small/medium business owner who wants to create a ad campaign for your business on Bing search. You have a limited budget and a set of keywords you want to use as adwords in Bing. Bid optimization algorithm will suggest you how much money to bid on each keyword and refine this budget allocation based on performance of each keyword in Bing search. 2. Keyword Extraction tool (KEX): User will submit short gist of services provided by his business to this tool. KEX will parse this text and suggest a list of keywords which should be used as adwords. It does this based on historical data for adwords mined from Bing search engine store. Developed a tool in C# that analyzed web page structure and highlights area of improvement for fast download of page (similar to YSlow). This tool was adopted by team to make website faster. Did a organization wide brown-bag to present performance improvements we made in the site.
Software Engineer
Jan 2004 - Apr 2007
3 yrs 4 mos
Worked in Active Directory Federation Server team (part of Windows server organization). Technologies: C#, .NET, IIS, Web services (SOAP), SAML protocol. ● Worked on first ever release of Active Directory Federation server in Windows server 2003 R2 release. ADFS is SAML based authentication, authorization service that enables sharing identity information between trusted partners across extranet. ● Owned automation and testing of core components, SOAP based service and end to end scenarios. ● Contributed to and owned test framework that enabled simulating complex end to end use case scenarios. ● Actively helped Tech support team to answer questions from customers and help unblock customer deployments. Developed a tool (ADFSDiagnostics tool) used by tech support that would find problems with customer deployments.
Education
  • 2001 - 2003
    Syracuse UniversityMS, Computer Engineering
  • 1996 - 2000
    University of Mumbai Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Electronics Engineering