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Rahul Banthia
Engineering Manager
& Full-Stack Architect

I drive technical strategy, architect scalable multi-tenant systems, and build high-performance engineering teams. Currently Engineering Manager II at PeopleGrove — empowering 500+ higher-education institutions through world-class software.

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5+
Years Experience
500+
Institutions Served
EM II
Current Level
Professional Experience

Career Trajectory

From building full-stack features to leading engineering teams — a journey of continuous growth in both technical depth and leadership.

PeopleGrove progression:SDE IISenior SDEEngineering ManagerEngineering Manager IIApr 2021 – Present
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Engineering Manager II

PeopleGrove·Remote
2023 – Present2+ years

Leading engineering strategy and delivery for PeopleGrove's career access and mentorship platform — trusted by 500+ higher-education institutions to connect students, alumni, and mentors at scale.

  • Manage and grow a cross-functional engineering team, driving hiring, roadmap planning, and bi-weekly sprint cycles with a focus on quality and velocity.
  • Architecting and delivering multi-tenant SaaS features — mentorship matching, alumni communities, experiential learning management, and enrollment-support workflows.
  • Partnering with product and design leadership to define the 12-month technical roadmap, aligning engineering capacity to company OKRs.
  • Driving platform reliability improvements — reduced p99 API latency by 35% through query optimisation and Redis caching across critical user paths.
  • Established engineering best-practices playbook including code-review standards, on-call runbooks, and observability tooling.
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Engineering Manager

PeopleGrove·Remote
2022 – 20231 year

Transitioned from senior individual contributor to first-time engineering manager, taking ownership of team health, delivery predictability, and technical direction.

  • Led a team of 6 engineers across full-stack product development for mentorship and career-readiness features.
  • Designed and shipped multi-tenant database architecture supporting institution-level data isolation for 500+ clients.
  • Introduced structured 1:1 cadences, performance review frameworks, and growth paths for IC engineers.
  • Collaborated with customer success to translate enterprise client requirements into prioritised engineering epics.
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Senior Software Engineer

PeopleGrove·Remote
2021 – 20221 year

Senior full-stack engineer driving complex feature delivery across the platform's mentorship network, alumni engagement, and career services modules.

  • Built and shipped end-to-end mentorship matching algorithms and notification infrastructure using NestJS and PostgreSQL.
  • Redesigned the alumni engagement module — improving session load time by 40% through lazy loading and query batching.
  • Mentored junior engineers, conducted tech-talks, and participated in architecture review committees.
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Software Engineer II

PeopleGrove·Remote
Apr 2021 – 20216 months

Joined PeopleGrove as a mid-level full-stack engineer, contributing to product development across React front-end and NestJS back-end services.

  • Delivered front-end features for the student career-readiness dashboard in React + TypeScript.
  • Developed RESTful API endpoints for job opportunity management and skill-building modules.
  • Participated in on-call rotations and contributed to reducing system downtime incidents.
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Full-Stack Engineer — Dynamic Pricing & Promotions

Kroger Technology·Remote
Before 2021Prior

Worked on Kroger's next-generation dynamic pricing and promotions platform — a system enabling real-time price changes and personalised offers across thousands of stores.

  • Built features for the dynamic promotions engine, enabling flash deals, digital weekly circulars, and personalised offers based on customer demographics and purchase history.
  • Integrated GIS (Geographic Information System) tooling to map competitor store locations and inform competitive pricing decisions at a per-store level.
  • Replaced paper-tag pricing workflows with an instant digital update system, reducing promotion deployment time from days to seconds.
  • Developed customer segmentation APIs to tailor promotional offers based on purchasing behaviour and location data.
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Core Proficiencies

Tech Stack

A full-stack toolkit spanning languages, frameworks, databases, and cloud infrastructure — wielded to build reliable, high-scale systems.

Languages
TypeScript
Frontend
React
Next.js
Backend
NestJS
Node.js
GraphQL
Data & Storage
PostgreSQL
Redis
SQL
DevOps & Cloud
AWS
Docker
Git
Beyond the Code

Piano & Music

When I'm not architecting systems, I'm at the KORG keyboard — playing Bollywood classics, soulful ghazals, and timeless western pieces. Music has been a creative constant throughout my life.

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