Rahul Ballal

Engineering Lead

Mar 2024 - Present

Pepperstone

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Founding member and engineering leader of the "Partnerships" value stream
Established ways of working and patterns and practices for the initial team
Responsible for creating an hyper collaborative environment within the value stream across different business verticals
Lead the setup of a polyglot monorepo
Lead the build of CI/Continuous Delivery pipeline
Building a culture of ownership and accountability with a focus on continuous improvement
Delivered MVP for the value stream within 6 months of joining
Showcased progress with fortnightly demonstration of the progress to ensure the stakeholders are up to date with the progress and feel confident about release
Hands on coding and active code reviews for infrastructure (Terraform), HTTP apis (Golang), Frontend (React) and background workers (Golang, Nodejs)
Provided leadership in building an AI driven translation tool that builds on top of React i18n conventions
Led the interviewing process revamp and hiring for new squads in Asia region
Personally presented multiple times in the company's architecture review forum and empowered team members to present ideas for review
On-call roster management and on-call support

Staff Engineer

Sep 2022 - Mar 2024

SEEK

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Responsible and accountable for the engineering roadmap for the Job Posting product domain
Took ownership of the product domain's Graphql Subgraph. All graphql resolvers were made typesafe to improve the confidence in the code and full testability via refactoring
Work alongside Senior Staff Engineers to ensure architectural alignment
Oversaw some key operations during the company wide initiative of merging data and services across multiple regions and acquisitions like jobsdb in thailand. This included planning and hands on leadership during rollouts
Identified areas of the application which were hard to support and add features to. Executed targeted refactoring to reduce error rates and/or targeting addition of monitoring to help the on-call personnel swift resolution of production issues
Provided SEEK wide new hire training in Graphql for a batch of 10+ graduate engineers. Also, designed the coursework
Founding memeber of the SEEK Bytes Engineering Podcast. A podcast that covers a variety of technical topics and aim to give engineers a better visibility into enterprise software

Principal Engineer

Aug 2019 - Sep 2022

PERSUIT™

Melbourne, Australia

Built the first version of continuous delivery pipeline
Setup and configured NewRelic for better observability into the system
Helped define and execute the technical roadmap to scale for people and user load
Actively building and maintaining features using Graphql and React
Agile evangelism and coaching across squads
Extensive pair programming
Mentoring team members
Interviewing and hiring new team members
Educate team on ways of working in a Remote setup
Presented multiple technical talks on varying topics including Functional Programming/Typescript/ Graphql / Google Cloud Messaging systems

Lead Software Engineer

Oct 2018 - Aug 2019

DiUS

Melbourne, Australia

Notable work done for some clients: Backend GraphQL services written in TypeScript and Nodejs. PostgreSQL as databse with access layer written using TypeORM

Senior Software Engineer

Mar 2018 - Oct 2018

Shroogal

Melbourne, Australia

Senior node.js Engineer

Apr 2017 - Mar 2018

Domain

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Building next-gen applications for Domain.com.au with Node.js (Express, React.js)
Amazon SQS for messaging
Amazon SNS and Cloudwatch for notifications and metrics
Hashicorp Nomad and Jenkins Pipelines to deliver apps to AWS Cloud

Earlier Career Experience

Jan 2004 - Mar 2017

Various Companies (2004-2017)

USA & India

Principal Software Engineer at Wiredrive (Mar 2016 - Mar 2017) - Playa Vista, CA
Principal Software Engineer at Cornerstone OnDemand (Mar 2015 - Mar 2016) - Santa Monica, CA
Senior Software Engineer at Kareo (Jun 2013 - Mar 2015) - Irvine, CA
Senior Software Development Engineer at NEOGOV (Mar 2012 - Jun 2013) - El Segundo, CA
Technical Lead at 3M (Apr 2011 - May 2012) - Austin, TX
Sr. Web Developer at Bank of America (Nov 2010 - Apr 2011) - Agoura Hills, CA
Lead Developer at 3M (Jan 2009 - Oct 2010) - Tucson, AZ
Senior Developer at Intel Corporation (Jan 2008 - Dec 2009) - Chandler, AZ
Programmer Analyst at First American Title (Jan 2006 - Dec 2008) - Santa Ana, CA
Intern at Profit Concepts International (Oct 2006 - Dec 2006) - Long Beach, CA
Entry Level Developer at Virinchi Solutions (Jan 2004 - Dec 2005) - Nagpur, India

Software Engineering Leader