Empowering Teams.
Scaling Systems.
Driving Impact.
I am Rutvik Bhatt, a results-driven Engineering Leader with 15 years of experience orchestrating architectural strategy, leading high-throughput distributed engineering efforts, and mentoring high-performing teams.
Philosophy
The Servant Architect
I believe engineering leadership is about empowering people while maintaining absolute technical rigor. By building inclusive, high-trust environments, I unlock autonomous innovation that matches business objectives.
- Empowerment & Autonomy Allowing engineers to own technical outcomes and scale independently.
- Mentorship-Driven Culture Investing deeply in career development, leading to 100% historical team retention.
- Business & Tech Alignment Bridging the gap between corporate financial strategy and high-throughput systems design.
Prioritize People
Provide mentorship and growth opportunities.
Think Long Term
Anticipate tech trends and architectural roadmaps.
Emotional Intel
Create a psychologically safe work environment.
Empower Processes
Transparent decision-making and autonomy.
Core Expertise
Why Work With Me
Platform Architect
Pioneered GraphQL Federation at organizational scale, generating €52M revenue with Apollo GraphOS.
Performance Obsessed
Drove 64% backend latency reduction (1.4s→500ms) and 75% mobile TTI speedups.
Team Builder
Scaled org 50% (20→30 engineers) under 100% retention, mentoring 7 EMs & Staff leaders.
Business & ROI-Driven
Engineered high-throughput global platforms and secured €100K+ annual infra savings.
Innovation Catalyst
Shipped Screen Layout consoles (60% faster A/B), AI automation, and custom Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers.
Professional Journey
Chronological Track record
Senior Engineering Manager
Delivery Hero
Directing engineering teams to scale high-throughput vendor discovery ecosystems across 70+ countries, processing multi-million daily requests at global transactional scale.
- • Led the migration from microservices architecture to a unified GraphQL federation.
- • Successfully reduced frontend page load latency by 75% and API response times by 64%.
Mobile & API Leadership
Taboola
Managed high-impact mobile SDK divisions and recommendation APIs. Oversaw product cycles and drove execution improvements for publishers globally.
- • Optimized content recommendation delivery pipelines serving millions of active clients daily.
- • Mentored technical product owners and senior engineers to improve agile velocity.
Engineering Manager
Simform & Moveo Apps
Scaled cross-functional engineering organizations from early-stage to high-velocity delivery teams, implementing XP (Extreme Programming) practices.
- • Reduced development cycles and cut product deployment overhead by up to 20%.
- • Spearheaded cloud native initiatives and launched complex client platforms on time.
Polyglot Systems Engineer
Various Startups & Solutions
Honed technical craft across Node.js, Python, Go, and PHP. Launched 19 production-grade applications, including scale ride-sharing platforms in East Asia.
- • Developed high-throughput real-time web socket layers and message broker systems.
- • Architected database clusters and handled caching layers (Redis/Memcached) for high traffic.
Let's Shape the Future.
I'm always open to discussing technical strategies, engineering organizational development, and scaling challenges. Let's start a conversation.