Taranpreet Toor

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CTO at Relay Studio · API platforms · Django, REST

Relay Studio
Gurugram, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
12+ years experience
IIM Calcutta
English, Hindi
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Overview

I've spent 19 years on API platforms - first at Capgemini, now at Relay Studio. Wrote the Django service that now handles 8 million requests a day. Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 33 minutes to under 2. Most at home with rate limiting and Django. Learning to sail.

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Skills
PythonPostgreSQLrate limitingRESTDjangoOpenAPI
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Hiring a founding data engineer for the public API team - Gurugram or remote

Role
Founding data engineer
Level
Senior
Type
Full-time
Work mode
Remote
Compensation
₹42-70 LPA
Team
Public API, 4 people
Start
This quarter
Must have
Strong SQL and statistics Turns analysis into decisions Clear written communication
Process
Two interviews and a paid trial day

Comp ₹43-61 LPA. We decide within ten days. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

Gurugram, India · remote OKrate limitingopenapipostgresql
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Experience

  1. CTO
    Oct 2022 - Present
    Relay Studio · 4 yr · Full-time · Gurugram, India
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 42 minutes to under 4.
    • Built the experimentation framework 16 product teams use to ship changes safely.
  2. Engineering Manager
    Jun 2019 - Oct 2022
    HCLTech · 3 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Gurugram, India
    • Moved 95% of public API traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
  3. Senior Backend Engineer
    Nov 2017 - Jun 2019
    InMobi · 1 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Gurugram, India
    • Led the migration of 79 services to Python.
  4. Backend Engineer
    Jun 2016 - Nov 2017
    Salesforce · 1 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Gurugram, India
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 36 minutes to under 5.
  5. Senior Backend Engineer
    Feb 2015 - Jun 2016
    Capgemini · 1 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Gurugram, India
    • Shipped 18 launches on the public API team without a rollback.

Projects

Open-source PostgreSQL toolkit
2023

A small library for API platforms that 829 developers star on GitHub.

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Education

  1. IIM Calcutta
    MBA, Business Administration
    2007 - 2009
  2. NIT Surathkal
    B.Tech, Computer Engineering
    2002 - 2006

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