Rahul Chauhan

About Rahul Chauhan

16+ years of industry experience with an established background in delivering high quality results in a fast paced environment. Have an experience of working on complex problems, building high quality, architecturally sound systems, hands on producing both detailed technical work and high-level architectural designs. Contributed to all parts of the software development and deployment life cycle including design, development, documentation, testing and operations. As Senior Director of Engineering at AngelOne Limited, the key responsibilities include:Providing strategic leadership and vision for the engineering organization, aligning technology initiatives with business goals to drive growth and innovation.Overseeing the design, development, and delivery of critical platform services, including Login, Homepage, Orderpad Validation, Search, Discovery, Watchlist, Third-party integrations, and News.Ensuring the seamless and efficient flow of data to front-end systems across Android, iOS, and Web platforms.Leading multiple engineering teams, fostering a culture of high performance, collaboration, and continuous improvement.Managing resource planning, budgeting, and capacity management to meet project timelines and quality standards.Implementing best practices in software development, code quality, architecture, and system scalability.Collaborating with product management, UX, and business stakeholders to prioritize features and technical investments.Driving innovation by evaluating emerging technologies and integrating suitable solutions to maintain competitive advantage.Overseeing operational excellence through monitoring, incident management, and proactive system maintenance.Mentoring and developing engineering leaders and talent across the organization to build a strong leadership pipeline.

Experience

1. Senior Director of Engineering

   Angel One

   Feb 2024 — Present · Bengaluru, IN

   Key Contributions in Building High-Scalable Systems:Login & Authentication Services:Designed and optimized highly available and secure login flows, ensuring seamless authentication for millions of concurrent users.Implemented disaster recovery (DR) setup and failover strategies, reducing downtime and improving resilience.Homepage & Discovery Platform:Architected and scaled backend services powering personalized homepage content and discovery modules, handling millions of daily requests with low latency.Improved caching and query optimization, achieving 40%+ reduction in response time during peak load.Orderpad Validation Service:Owned and delivered end-to-end Orderpad Validation Service, ensuring accurate and real-time validation of trading orders.Integrated with multiple internal/external APIs, enabling fault-tolerant order processing under high concurrency.Search & Watchlist Systems:Delivered global search service with optimizations for faster symbol lookup and content retrieval.Scaled watchlist service to handle large volumes of updates in real time with high consistency guarantees.Third-Party Integrations:Managed integrations with multiple external services (payments, KYC, market data, etc.), ensuring secure communication, reliability, and SLA adherence.Monitored and optimized API performance, minimizing third-party dependency failures.News & Market Feeds:Built and optimized news aggregation service, ingesting large volumes of real-time financial data and delivering curated updates to users with minimal latency.Scalability & Reliability Initiatives:Led AWS cloud cost optimization and DR setups for critical services.Implemented Redis compression, Sonar integration, and observability improvements for high-scale production workloads.Proactively identified bottlenecks through performance testing, driving infra and code-level optimizations.

Education

• Krishna Institute of Engineering & Technology

  Master of Computer Applications - MCA, Computer Science

  2006 — 2009

Skills

• Web Services
• Agitar
• Mysql
• Jdbc
• Oop
• Multithreading
• Spring
• Java
• Core Java
• Unix
• Cloud Foundry
• Tomcat
• Adf
• Ant
• Object-Oriented Programming (Oop)
• Cassandra
• Xml
• Software Development
• Nosql
• Javaserver Pages (Jsp)
• Java Enterprise Edition
• J2ee
• Junit
• Data Structures
• Jsp
• Algorithms
• Apache Kafka
• Javabeans
• Aerospike
• Oracle 9i
• Eclipse
• Pl/Sql
• Oracle
• Spring Framework
• Agile Methodologies
• Hadoop
• Jdeveloper
• Servlets
• Sql
• Linux