I’m Rahul Bagai, a Founder and Principal Software Engineer with 15+ years of experience building large-scale cloud, AI, and distributed systems across Meta, Expedia Group, AssemblyAI, and startups.

I help engineers and technical leaders grow from strong execution into higher-leverage roles: senior engineer, staff engineer, engineering manager, architect, founder, or technical product leader. My mentoring style is practical, direct, and outcome-focused. I work best with people who want help making better technical decisions, increasing their influence, navigating career transitions, or building systems that can scale.

At AssemblyAI, I worked on speech recognition systems, including Nano Tier adoption, transcription performance improvements, and automated language detection across 99+ languages. At Meta, I helped design and launch backend systems for VR account infrastructure impacting 30M+ users. At Expedia, I led cloud migration, CI/CD, developer experience, analytics, and product inventory initiatives that reduced infrastructure costs, improved deployment velocity, and drove measurable business impact.

I can help mentees with cloud architecture, AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, microservices, system design, AI infrastructure, career strategy, technical leadership, product thinking, and startup execution. I also mentor professionals who feel stuck and want to turn their experience into a clearer next chapter.