Rasika Aarti Kelkar

Overview

I lead real-time systems at Keystone Finance in Mumbai. Built the experimentation framework 15 product teams use to ship changes safely. Cut p99 latency on the real-time services from 635ms to 91ms. Before that: Zoho and Meesho. Most at home with Elixir and Redis. Outside work: long runs and longer podcasts.

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Experience

1. VP of Engineering

   Apr 2022 - Present
   Keystone Finance · 4 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Mumbai, India
   • Reduced cloud spend on real-time by 21% in two quarters.
   • Wrote the low-latency systems service that now handles 32 million requests a day.
   • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 29 minutes to under 6.
2. Software Engineer

   May 2019 - Apr 2022
   Zoho · 2 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Mumbai, India
   • Brought on-call pages for real-time down from 12 a week to 1.
   • Moved 85% of real-time traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
3. Software Engineer

   Dec 2016 - Jan 2019
   Meesho · 2 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Mumbai, India
   • Shipped 7 launches on the real-time team without a rollback.
   • Moved 64% of real-time traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
4. Senior Software Engineer

   Oct 2013 - Dec 2016
   Cognizant · 3 yr 2 mo · Contract · Mumbai, India
   • Grew the real-time team from 4 to 19 engineers.
   • Reduced cloud spend on real-time by 25% in two quarters.
5. Senior Software Engineer

   Aug 2011 - Oct 2013
   Persistent Systems · 2 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Mumbai, India
   • Cut p99 latency on the real-time services from 817ms to 144ms.

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Education

1. College of Engineering, Pune

   B.Tech, Electronics and Communication
   1999 - 2003