Résumé

Rahul Barwal

Seasoned Full-Stack Engineer & Technical Leader

Seasoned full-stack engineer and technical leader with 10+ years of experience building, scaling, and operating complex web platforms across startups and large enterprises. Currently at Appsmith, I have driven high-impact initiatives as Staff Engineer, Engineering Manager, and Full-Stack Engineer—scaling core template systems to support 4× growth, unblocking enterprise deals by eliminating critical platform issues, and leading experimentation on instruction-driven and screenshot-based app builders.

Location India
Email rahulbarwal@proton.me
Web rahulbarwal.in
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Core Technologies

Languages

  • TypeScript
  • JavaScript
  • Python
  • HTML
  • CSS
  • SQL

Frameworks

  • ReactJS
  • NextJS
  • Express
  • Angular
  • Svelte

Databases

  • MongoDB
  • Firestore
  • Realtime DB
  • PostgreSQL

Cloud & Tools

  • Google Cloud Platform
  • Firebase
  • Docker
  • Claude Skills
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Professional Experience

Staff Software Engineer - Full stack

Appsmith
February 2023 - December 2025
Remote, India
  • Scaled the templates ecosystem to support 4× projected customer growth within six months, directly improving adoption and onboarding efficiency.
  • Designed and launched the community templates platform end-to-end, increasing community engagement by 20%.
  • Architected and delivered partial import/export capabilities and community template infrastructure within one month, enabling faster reuse and extensibility.
  • Led a five-engineer team owning templates and widgets in Appsmith V1, maintaining platform stability while resolving 69 prospect-blocking issues to unlock enterprise deals and shipping HTML column support for Tables within one month.
  • Led and validated core product and architectural experiments for Appsmith V2, shaping the technical direction of an instruction-driven and screenshot-based app builder by evolving scope toward high-viability freelancer websites and addressing end-to-end challenges across UX interpretation, data modeling, rendering pipelines, and system reliability at scale.

Technical Lead, Full stack

Fluxon
March 2022 - February 2023
Remote, India
  • Architected and implemented Code execution in 2 months for openbracket
  • Reduced build times by 90% by implementing turborepo in CI/CD
  • Reduced image size by 50% by using ignite alpine for micro VM
  • Implemented github action to support firebase functions deployment from a monorepo.

Technical Lead

Globant
September 2019 - February 2022
Remote, India
  • Login: Transitioned 16+ markets of HSBC from the legacy SaaS platform to DSP.
  • Improved performance 3 times, by removing UI bottlenecks.
  • OLR/OFR: Enhanced existing functionalities and added 3 online reset options, increasing user engagement by 30%
  • Resolved 90% of critical production bugs in 3 months.

Co founder & CTO

Creyent Arts Pvt Ltd
February 2018 - August 2019
Pune
  • Co-founded and built Rtee, a marketplace platform connecting dance studios and dancers, owning end-to-end product and technical execution.
  • Led company strategy and execution across market research, finance, operations, and technology; defined vision, goals, and roadmap.
  • Owned backend and frontend architecture decisions, ensuring scalability and reliability from early-stage to growth.
  • Integrated Google App Engine, Google Cloud SQL, and Cloudinary to deliver a cloud-native, scalable platform.
  • Scaled the platform to 100+ dance studios and 6,000+ users within the first six months in the Pune market.

Member of Technical Staff

Commvault
July 2014 - January 2018
Hyderabad
  • Contributed to the build engineering team, developing automation scripts and internal UIs supporting Commvault's build and release processes.
  • Worked across Python, ASP.NET WebForms, and jQuery to deliver reliable tooling used by the broader engineering organization.
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Education

July 2014

B.E. Information Technology

Savitribai Phule Pune University
Pune, MH, India • July 2010 - July 2014