Mohit Ranka

I'm an engineering leader who builds data platforms, developer tooling, and reliable distributed backends. I prefer clarity over cleverness, long-term impact over short wins, and shipping work that scales from one team to many.

My sweet spot is turning fuzzy product questions into pragmatic, well-instrumented systems that survive real traffic and real people. I've done that at LinkedIn, Postman, and Booking.com — more on the work page.

Selected writing

• The line manager role is disappearing faster than you think
• Near-real-time is a product promise, not a Kafka cluster
• The platform team’s real job is interfaces
• When I still choose a relational database
• Freshness SLOs: the metric product teams actually feel

You can read more writing, browse my code, or connect on LinkedIn. Reach out if interested.