Summary
Rahul Arora is a seasoned principal engineer and engineering manager with 14 years of experience building cloud-native platforms, distributed systems, and developer-facing tooling. He has led high-impact efforts at Microsoft and Oracle—architecting CI/CD and microservice pipelines, driving platform modernization, and shipping user-facing search and big data UIs at scale. Rahul blends hands-on coding (Python, Java, C#) with cross-org leadership, having improved deployment reliability, reduced manual validation by 75%, and maintained 99.8% uptime on mission-critical pipelines. He has a track record of scaling teams globally, accelerating delivery through process changes, and launching features that measurably improved user engagement and relevance. An entrepreneur at heart, he previously founded startups that built scalable data crawlers and self-publishing platforms, bringing product instincts to engineering decisions. Based in Redmond and trained at Cornell, Rahul pairs pragmatic engineering with strategic roadmap influence to deliver reliable, self-service cloud experiences.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering - MEng Computer Science, Master of Engineering - MEng Computer Science at Cornell University
Bachelor of Engineering - BE Information Technology, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Information Technology at Delhi College of Engineering
English