Executive Header & Profile
RAJESH K. MENON
Senior Product Engineering Lead | Full Stack Architect
Executive Summary
Accomplished Software Engineering Leader with 8+ years of hands-on experience in architecting high-throughput distributed systems, mentoring cross-functional engineering teams, and scaling microservices serving 5M+ daily active users. Proven track record in cloud cost optimization, CI/CD automation, and delivering business-critical enterprise solutions with 99.99% service availability.
Core Competencies & Architecture
• Architecture: Microservices, Distributed Systems, Event-Driven Architecture, High Availability
• Backend & Cloud: Node.js, Go, Python, AWS (ECS, Lambda, S3, RDS), Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform
• Data & Storage: PostgreSQL, Redis, Apache Kafka, Elasticsearch, DynamoDB
• Leadership: Agile/Scrum, Engineering Mentorship, Technical Roadmapping, Stakeholder Management
Professional Work Experience
• Spearheaded migration of legacy monolithic banking portal to microservices on AWS, reducing deployment cycle times by 65%.
• Architected asynchronous message-driven payment gateway handling 15,000 TPS during peak festive sales with zero downtime.
• Mentored a team of 14 engineers and established automated code linting and security scanning gates.
• Designed and shipped real-time customer analytics dashboard using React, TypeScript, and Redis Pub/Sub.
• Optimized database query bottlenecks in PostgreSQL, slashing 95th-percentile API response latency from 1.4s to 120ms.
• Authored reusable micro-frontend design system adopted across 5 product development streams.