Rakesh Kumar Padhi

About Rakesh Kumar Padhi

I am a Lead Software Engineer with 13+ years of experience, specializing in building high-scale, AI-driven cloud solutions.At Salesforce, I lead the design and development of the AI-driven personalization and omni-channel engine for Marketing Cloud. We architect and operate this system to handle massive scale, processing over 10 billion transactions daily.My career was forged at Microsoft, where I spent six years as a Senior Engineer solving planet-scale challenges. As a key engineer on Azure Operator Nexus, I built cloud-native solutions for the 5G/telecom industry, delivering 99.95% high availability. I also engineered high-throughput monitoring APIs for Skype and Teams, processing over 1 million transactions per hour.I am now expanding my expertise through the PGP in AI/ML at UT Austin. I\'m passionate about combining my experience in distributed systems, microservices, and public cloud architecture with machine learning to build the next generation of intelligent, enterprise-grade platforms.Core Specialties: Distributed Systems | System Architecture & Design | Microservices | Kubernetes | Docker | Technical Leadership | AI/ML | Cloud-Native Solutions (Azure)| High Availability (HA)| Scalability

Experience

1. Lead Member of Technical Staff

   Salesforce

   Jul 2024 — Present · Hyderabad, IN

   In my role as Lead Software Engineer at Salesforce, I am leading the development of a cutting-edge personalization and omni channel sending engine for a powerful AI marketing product, managing a high transaction volume of over 10 billion per day.

Education

• The University of Texas at Austin

  Postgraduate, Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning

• Veer Surendra Sai University Of Technology ( Formerly UCE ), Burla

  Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering

  2007 — 2011