Rohil Surana
Engineering Manager @ Pixxel
Distributed Systems | Data Engineering | Data Infrastructure
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
- Flink Forward 2018, Berlin - Democratizing Data at Gojek
- DevOps Days 2019, Bengaluru - Panelist - Infrastructure as Code
- Maintainer - Raystack Foundation
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