Rajat Gupta
AVP Engineering at the Reserve Bank Innovation Hub (RBIH) in Bengaluru. I lead platform, infrastructure, reliability, and security engineering for digital public infrastructure in India’s financial sector.
What I Do
I lead engineering teams that keep platforms reliable, secure, and ready to scale. Today that work happens at RBIH, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Reserve Bank of India. My remit covers platform engineering, infrastructure, CI/CD, reliability, and AI adoption across the platforms RBIH builds for the financial sector, including the Unified Lending Interface (ULI), MuleHunter.ai, and the Digital Payments Intelligence Platform (DPIP). These systems serve lenders, banks, and through them their customers, so reliability, security, and regulatory compliance are part of the engineering work from day one.
Before RBIH, I spent more than nine years in Berlin, first building and then leading SRE, platform, and security work at companies like PlayStation, TIDAL, and Paymenttools (REWE Digital). My work sits at the intersection of SRE, Security, and backend systems, where clarity and ownership matter as much as technical depth. I guide teams through complex problems, help them make decisions with data, and build processes that reduce noise instead of adding more of it.
I spend a lot of time shaping cross-functional work so that people know who owns what and why. When something critical needs to be delivered, I bring structure, alignment, and a clear path forward. I also enjoy driving green-field initiatives, especially the ones that need both technical judgment and steady leadership to get from idea to production.
Along the way, I write about the lessons I learn. My goal is to share practical insights with other engineers and leaders, not theory for its own sake. I like turning complicated systems into simple explanations that help others think more clearly.
Featured Work
- Incident Management for Digital Public Infrastructure — Designed RBIH's incident management practice and the case for its tooling, so production alerts on the Unified Lending Interface (ULI) reach an accountable responder and every major incident ends with tracked follow-ups.
- Runbook Runner: Turning Static Docs into Actionable Automation — Delivered an automated runbook execution system that reduced manual toil, improved operator confidence, and created a single reliable path for executing high risk operational tasks.
- Rift: Declarative Large-Scale Code Changes Across GitHub Repositories — Delivered a self-hosted tool for declaratively managing bulk code changes across thousands of GitHub repositories, enabling teams to preview, apply, and continuously reconcile pull requests at scale until merged.
Latest Writing
- GitOps: Beyond the Hype · Mar 25, 2026
- Terraform at Scale: Patterns and Anti-Patterns · Mar 19, 2026
- The Three Pillars of Observability: Logs, Metrics, Traces Done Right · Feb 04, 2026
Get In Touch
Email me at contact@rajatgupta.work or reach out on LinkedIn for speaking, writing, or mentoring opportunities.
Read more about my blog posts on Medium.