Résumé

Ruturaj Jadhav

Engineering Leader · System Designer · Product Builder

Summary

Engineering leader and system designer with 9+ years of experience building scalable software across web, mobile, cloud, AI products, authentication systems, integrations, and large-scale distributed systems. I set technical direction, design systems that hold up over time, and help teams ship reliable software while growing as engineers.

Experience

Engineering Lead

2022 — Present

Northwind Cloud · Remote

Lead engineering for a platform team building developer-facing infrastructure: authentication, integrations, and the services that other product teams build on.

  • Set technical direction and architecture for a multi-team platform serving internal and external developers.
  • Introduced service ownership, on-call, and observability practices that reduced production incident time-to-resolution.
  • Designed an authentication and authorization layer that consolidated several bespoke systems behind one consistent contract.
  • Mentor senior and mid-level engineers, and partner with product on roadmap and scope.
  • TypeScript
  • Go
  • PostgreSQL
  • Kafka
  • Kubernetes
  • AWS

Senior Software Engineer

2020 — 2022

Meridian Pay · Hybrid

Built payment and identity systems where correctness, auditability, and uptime were non-negotiable.

  • Designed idempotent, event-driven payment flows resilient to partial failure and retries.
  • Led the migration of a monolith's highest-traffic domain into independently deployable services.
  • Implemented end-to-end observability that turned vague latency complaints into specific, fixable bottlenecks.
  • TypeScript
  • Node.js
  • PostgreSQL
  • Redis
  • AWS

Software Engineer

2018 — 2020

Axle Logistics · On-site

Worked on location-aware logistics products spanning mobile, backend, and geospatial services.

  • Built real-time tracking and geofencing features used by field operations daily.
  • Designed data models and APIs for routing, dispatch, and location history at scale.
  • Shipped Android features and the backend services that powered them.
  • Java
  • Kotlin
  • Node.js
  • PostGIS
  • GCP

Software Engineer

2016 — 2018

Lumen Labs · On-site

Early-career product engineering across the full stack, learning to ship and to listen to users.

  • Delivered customer-facing web features end to end, from data model to UI.
  • Owned bug triage and reliability work that improved the product's day-to-day stability.
  • JavaScript
  • React
  • Node.js
  • MySQL

Skills & Technologies

Languages
TypeScript, JavaScript, Go, Python, Java / Kotlin, SQL
Frontend
React, Next.js, Astro, Web Performance, Accessibility
Backend & APIs
Node.js, REST, GraphQL, gRPC, Event-driven systems
Data & Messaging
PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, Elasticsearch, PostGIS
Cloud & Infrastructure
AWS, Cloudflare, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, CI/CD
Architecture & Practice
System Design, Distributed Systems, Observability, Authentication & Identity, Technical Leadership

Education

B.E. in Computer Engineering

University (placeholder)

2012 — 2016