Mayank Raj

About Mayank Raj

I am a Staff Engineer at Stripe, sitting at the intersection of System Design and the grim reality of Cloud Scale. At this level, my job isn\'t just solving technical puzzles but it\'s hunting down the friction that kills velocity. I build the paved paths that let engineers move fast without breaking things (too often).Before Stripe, I was a founding engineering leader for Cloud Security (HSM) team at Salesforce India, where I focused on securing massive footprints and driving multi-million dollar efficiencies in cost-to-serve. I’ve spent my career obsessing over \"impossible\" distributed problems - from building graph database engines that handle billions of nodes to architecting Big Data platforms that actually stay up.I hold an AWS Solutions Architect Professional cert and a CKA, but my real qualification is the number of production fires I’ve put out. Whether leading teams of 15+ or bootstrapping my own SaaS products, my philosophy is \"lift as you climb.\"Offline: I trek mountains (because they are harder than distributed systems), fly autonomous drones, and practice the violin.

Experience

1. Staff Engineer

   Stripe

   Aug 2025 — Present

Education

• MPSTME, NMIMS

  Engineer's Degree, Computer Science

  2014 — 2018

Skills

• Css3
• Android Development
• Html5
• Phpmyadmin
• Blogging
• Web Design
• Php
• Jquery
• Responsive Website Development
• SEO
• Mysql
• Css
• Wordpress
• Bootstrap