Rohil Surana

Engineering Manager @ Pixxel

Distributed Systems | Data Engineering | Data Infrastructure

rohilsurana96 [AT] gmail.com

github.com/rohilsurana


Experience

2023-Present

Engineering Manager, Cloud

Pixxel, Bengaluru

  • Managing and leading cloud infrastructure at Pixxel, fostering a collaborative environment that enhanced productivity and efficiency in cloud operations and development processes.
  • Defining the charter and vision for the cloud team, setting up objectives and processes for smooth working of the team

2019-2023

Technical Lead, Data Infrastructure

Gojek, Bengaluru

  • Leading efforts to build and maintain infrastructure to support a large scale data platform at Gojek, which powers data needs for various applications, analytics, experimentation, data science, and marketing.
  • Expanding the Data Infra for multiple countries, ensuring that the platform could handle the increased volume of data and users, while taking care of observability, scalability and cost.

2017-2019

Software Engineer, Data Engineering

Gojek, Bengaluru

  • Successfully building and evangelising modern data tools to developers and analysts at Gojek, empowering them to work more efficiently and effectively.
  • Building real-time data pipelines that can handle large scale of data and minimising failure points

2016

Software Engineering Intern

Vorkers, Tokyo

  • Monitoring page ranking of sites review pages on Google Search Engine by generating stats in timeseries format.
  • Ingested and processing site visit data from backend to Data Warehouse, making it suitable for analytics jobs.

Activities


Education

Indian Institute of Technology

2013-2017

B. Tech.

Languages and Tools

Golang, Java
Protobuf, GRPC
Postgres, Redis
Apache Kafka
Apache Flink

Terraform, Chef
HAProxy, Nginx
Grafana, Mimir
Loki, OTel
Kubernetes
GCP, AWS