Rupinder Rupinder Bajwa

CTO, Willow Foods - Go · Backstage · CI/CD

Willow Foods

Chandigarh, India · IST (UTC+5:30)

11+ years experience

IIT Madras

English, Hindi, Punjabi

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Overview

Currently at Willow Foods, where I lead platform engineering with a team of 12. Grew the developer platform team from 3 to 31 engineers. Built the experimentation framework 21 product teams use to ship changes safely. Before that: Accenture and Myntra.

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service meshobservabilityCI/CDBazelGoBackstageKubernetes

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Building out developer platform at Willow Foods: backend engineers wanted in Chandigarh

Role: Backend engineer
Level: Senior
Type: Full-time
Work mode: On-site
Compensation: ₹50-80 LPA
Team: Developer platform, 14 people
Start: Within a month
Must have: Production experience with Kubernetes Production experience with Bazel Clear written communication
Process: Two interviews and a paid trial day

Comp ₹37-60 LPA. One technical chat and a paid trial day. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

Chandigarh, Indiakubernetesobservabilitybazel

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Experience

CTO
Aug 2024 - Present
Willow Foods · 2 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Chandigarh, India
- Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 34 minutes to under 5.
- Brought on-call pages for developer platform down from 23 a week to 1.
- Moved 78% of developer platform traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
Senior Platform Engineer
Feb 2022 - Aug 2024
Accenture · 2 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Chandigarh, India
- Led the migration of 62 services to Backstage.
Engineering Manager
May 2020 - Feb 2022
Myntra · 1 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Chandigarh, India
- Built the experimentation framework 12 product teams use to ship changes safely.
Senior Platform Engineer
Apr 2018 - Jan 2020
Accenture · 1 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Chandigarh, India
- Led the migration of 57 services to Bazel.
- Brought on-call pages for developer platform down from 15 a week to 1.
Platform Engineer
Jan 2016 - Apr 2018
Atlassian · 2 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Chandigarh, India
- Moved 87% of developer platform traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
- Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 24 minutes to under 3.

Projects

Write-up: platform engineering in practice

2025

A long-form guide to platform engineering for people starting out.

Conference talk: lessons from developer platform

2024

What went wrong and what worked while scaling platform engineering.

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Education

IIT Madras
B.Tech, Information Technology
2010 - 2014

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