Rohit Ahuja
Software Development Engineer
Designing and operating scalable AI agent-based backend systems with strong DevOps ownership
Gurugram, India
Software Development Engineer with 5+ years of hands-on experience building and operating production backend and cloud systems at both startups (Launchpad Fintech, Forwood Safety) and enterprises (NatWest). At NatWest, I own the team's MongoDB Atlas and Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL infrastructure, standardized through reusable Terraform modules from a private module registry, and built the AI agent platform on AWS ECS with GitLab CI/CD and Terraform — shipping production banking agents (including agent coaching and request workflows, product requirements intake, and source of funds verification) powered by OpenAI and Google Gemini, and cutting AWS spend by ~$10,000 through ECS auto-scaling.
My sweet spot sits at the intersection of backend engineering, DevOps, and applied AI — designing cloud-native services on AWS, authoring infrastructure as code with Terraform (HashiCorp Certified Terraform Associate), wiring up CI/CD in GitLab and Jenkins, and making systems observable, resilient, and cost-aware. I've taken services from whiteboard to production — and been the person on-call when they broke.
Beyond writing code, I've led release management, mentored engineers, and driven architectural decisions as a Technical Lead. I care about clean operational ownership — systems that ship, scale, and stay up without heroics.
- rohitahuja725@gmail.com
- Address
- Gurugram, India
- Contact
- +91-8053185860
Experience
Nov 2025 – Present Current
Software Engineer
DevOps & AI
NatWest
Gurugram, India
- Set up and own the team's MongoDB Atlas and Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL infrastructure end-to-end, including reusable Terraform modules published to a private module registry for consistent provisioning across environments.
- Built the AI agent platform on AWS ECS, orchestrated with Terraform and GitLab CI/CD.
- In April 2026, owned a production release that shipped three major agents plus an update to a Python backend service that connects to MongoDB and exposes persistence through API endpoints, coordinating GitLab CI/CD promotion, rollout validation, health checks, and post-release monitoring.
- Co-designed multiple production banking workflow agents (including agent coaching and request flows, product requirements intake, and source of funds verification) — Python, OpenAI + Gemini, LangChain, with end-to-end ownership on key agent deliveries.
- Implemented ECS auto-scaling that cut AWS spend by ~$10,000.
Oct 2022 – Nov 2025
Technical Lead
Forwood Safety
Queensland, Australia
Dec 2024 – Nov 2025
Technical Lead
Oct 2022 – Dec 2024
Full-Stack Developer & Release Manager
- Led technical delivery as Technical Lead, working with product managers, stakeholders, frontend, and mobile teams to align engineering execution with business priorities.
- Architected backend APIs for the Safety+ mobile app and owned end-to-end deployment across environments.
- Built a multilingual translation system with Lokalise, enabling real-time localization across 23 global languages.
- Managed release lifecycles, hotfixes, and environment operations using AWS, Terraform, Jenkins, and Ansible.
- Architected and implemented Multi-Factor Authentication for client login flows across email and SMS channels.
- Raised engineering quality through test automation, code reviews, pair programming, mentoring, and maintainable team documentation.
Jan 2021 – Oct 2022
Full-Stack Developer
Launchpad Fintech Pvt. Limited
Gurugram, India
skills
DevOps / Cloud
AWS
Terraform
Docker
Jenkins
AI
OpenAI
Gemini
LangChain
AI Agents
Backend
Python
Django
Frontend
React
Next.js
JavaScript
HTML
CSS
Databases
MySQL
MongoDB
Aurora PostgreSQL
Git & API tooling
Git
Postman
projects
Blog Website
A Django-based blog platform that lets users write, manage, and publish posts from anywhere.
My Portfolio
A static personal portfolio website hosted on GitHub Pages to showcase my experience, projects, and contact details.
ShopHub ยท E-Commerce
Problem: Most e-commerce demos keep catalog and checkout glued to server-rendered pages, so there is no stable contract for a separate storefront, checkout is unsafe on network retries or double-submits, and session-style auth breaks down once the UI and API run on different origins.
Tech: Next.js 15 (App Router, TypeScript, Tailwind) storefront; Django 5 and Django REST Framework API; JWT auth; idempotent checkout; OpenAPI via drf-spectacular; optional Paytm handoff; SQLite by default with a PostgreSQL-ready path; backend and frontend tests.
Result: End-to-end flow from catalog and cart through signup, login, checkout, and order tracking, plus staff catalog APIs and architecture notes for split deploy (API vs storefront).
Cloud Cost Guardrail Analyzer
Problem: Cloud teams often miss idle resources, spend spikes, and owner-specific savings opportunities until costs have already increased.
Tech: AWS Lambda, API Gateway, EventBridge, Cost Explorer, CloudWatch, EC2, RDS, Terraform, FastAPI, Next.js, and CI validation.
Result: Detects idle EC2/EBS/RDS resources, shows month-to-date cost and top services, and sends owner-aware Gmail/WhatsApp alerts with remediation steps.
Achievements
Patent
Patent Holder — Electrical Portable Toothbrush
Innovated and secured a patent for the design of an electrical portable toothbrush — a rare cross-domain innovation signal.
HashiCorp Certified
Terraform Associate (HCTA0-004) — production-grade infrastructure as code on AWS and beyond.
A+ Performance Rating
Top annual performance rating at Forwood Safety for consistent delivery, technical ownership, and leadership impact.
Star Performer Award
Recognized as Star Performer at i8Labs (July 2020) for outsized contribution and delivery velocity.
GDSC Co-Lead
Co-led Google Developer Student Club chapter, running hands-on workshops and collaborative sessions for student developers.
Writing
Medium
How I Optimized an API to Handle 25,000+ Users Without Increasing Cost
A real-world backend performance write-up on reducing query complexity, trimming payload size, and rethinking API pagination to improve reliability without scaling infrastructure.
Read on Medium