Renil Raphy
Director of Engineering
13+ years exp
SQL
Ruby
JavaScript
Python
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Overview
Engineering leader with 12+ years of experience building and scaling web products, with 6+ years of people leadership in cross-functional engineering teams. Hands-on background across Ruby on Rails, backend API development, platform reliability, and payments systems, with recent work integrating applied AI and LLM-assisted tooling. Skilled in production observability and AWS-driven scalability improvements.
Technical skills
SQL
Ruby
JavaScript
Python• Junior • 13y+
Ruby
Ruby on Rails• 11y+
Python
Django• 13y+
Databases
ElasticSearch
MySQL
Redis
PostgreSQL• 8y+
AI/ML
Claude
Claude Code
LLM
Frontend
React.js
DevOps
CI/CD
Jenkins
Rest API• 13y+
AWS• 6y+
Docker
New Relic
Timeline
Head of Engineering
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Executive
Milaap
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Full-Time
Led an 8-person cross-functional engineering team covering backend, frontend, and QA. Owned engineering execution and strategy including hiring, performance management, platform reliability, observability, incident response, and delivery planning. Drove AI-assisted onboarding improvements and scaled platform reliability with AWS and monitoring tools to handle major traffic spikes. Designed and built an LLM-assisted, containerized Python MCP server for controlled PostgreSQL querying.
AWS
New Relic
Claude Code
Python
PostgreSQL
Docker
LLM
Engineering Lead (Associate Tech Lead → Tech Lead)
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Lead
Milaap
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Full-Time
Owned cross-functional delivery across backend, frontend, and QA while staying hands-on with architecture, code reviews, and production issue resolution. Managed sprint planning, technical estimation, release management, and production readiness across concurrent initiatives. Led modernization of the core Ruby on Rails platform from Rails 4 to Rails 6 while maintaining continuous customer delivery. Delivered key payments modernization and AWS infrastructure upgrades to improve scalability and engineering efficiency.
Ruby on Rails
AWSsince 2020
Senior Software Engineer
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Senior
Milaap
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Full-Time
Built and maintained backend systems for fundraising, payments, and campaign management using Ruby on Rails and PostgreSQL. Designed and developed REST APIs for web and mobile clients and for third-party integrations. Improved performance and reliability through database optimization, background processing, monitoring, and deployment improvements while increasing ownership of production troubleshooting and delivery of business-critical features.
Ruby on Rails
PostgreSQLsince 2018
Rest API
Software Engineer
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Middle
Skreen Technologies
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Full-Time
Developed web applications and backend APIs for influencer marketing products using Ruby on Rails. Owned feature delivery end-to-end, from requirements gathering and technical design through development, deployment, and ongoing production maintenance. Worked across backend development, relational databases, REST APIs, and third-party integrations to deliver customer-facing capabilities.
Ruby on Railssince 2015
Rest API
Junior Software Engineer
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Junior
Carettech Technologies
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Full-Time
Developed backend applications and web services using Python and Django for customer-facing systems. Built REST APIs and implemented business workflows to support application features. Focused on delivering working backend services and APIs for product requirements during day-to-day development.
Pythonsince 2013
Django
Rest APIsince 2013