Rahul Rana

Overview

I started Slate Commerce to fix B2B payments for teams who were tired of the workarounds. Took Slate Commerce from zero to $5 million ARR. Before that: Samsung R&D and Bosch. Most at home with fundraising and fintech. Volunteer coding coach for school students.

Replies between meetings, usually same day

Experience

1. Founder

   Jun 2025 - Present
   Slate Commerce · 1 yr 4 mo · Full-time · New Delhi, India
   • Took Slate Commerce from zero to $6 million ARR.
   • Signed 222 paying customers, 18 of them enterprises.
2. Engineering Manager

   Feb 2022 - Jun 2025
   Samsung R&D · 3 yr 4 mo · Full-time · New Delhi, India
   • Moved 90% of ML platform traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
3. Principal Engineer

   Oct 2019 - Feb 2022
   Bosch · 2 yr 4 mo · Full-time · New Delhi, India
   • Sit on 4 boards.
   • Backed 59 founders at pre-seed and seed.
4. Principal Engineer

   Jul 2018 - Oct 2019
   Nykaa · 1 yr 3 mo · Full-time · New Delhi, India
   • Sit on 4 boards.
   • Led or co-led 25 investments, 2 of them now at Series B or later.
5. Director of Engineering

   Apr 2016 - Jul 2018
   Siemens · 2 yr 3 mo · Full-time · New Delhi, India
   • Moved 83% of web traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
   • Mentored 12 engineers through their first promotion.

Projects

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Education

1. FMS Delhi

   MBA, Business Administration
   2007 - 2009
2. IIT Hyderabad

   B.Tech, Computer Science
   2002 - 2006