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Rajat Parida

Observer · DISC type ci
Head of Engineering at Pliant
📍 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Rajat Parida is a Head of Engineering with a proven record in fashion, q-commerce, and food delivery. An astute professional with an ITIL certification, his expertise lies in backend development, cloud infrastructure, and observability, having led teams at Plian, HelloFresh, and Flink. He holds a Masters from the Technical University of Kaiserslautern.

There is no publicly available information regarding Rajats personal life or hobbies.

He developed an internal metrics tool at Zalando designed to handle millions of metrics per second, significantly improving system resiliency.

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Experience
10 Years
Current Role
Head of Engineering
Job Level
Mid-senior
Location
Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Personality Overview

How Rajat shows up

Value Driven
Example Seeker
Curious

They can sound friendly and charming but can quickly change gears to become inquisitive and probing. They are likely to ask many questions and look heavily for supporting information. They are generally strong communicators and are not easy to convince.

Priorities

Topics Rajat cares about

Engineering Recruitment
Frequently and actively posts about hiring Engineering Managers and Senior Backend Engineers for his teams, indicating a strong focus on talent acquisition and team growth.
System Observability
Specializes in observability and SRE, with hands-on experience using tools like Datadog, Prometheus, and OpenTelemetry to ensure operational excellence and system reliability.
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Career

Work history

10-2025
Head of Engineering
Pliant
5-2023 - 10-2025
Engineering Manager
HelloFresh
7-2022 - 10-2023
Engineering Manager
Flink
8-2017 - 12-2021
Software engineer backend - APM and Logging
Zalando SE
2-2015 - 8-2017
Professional services consultant / Solutions engineer
AppDynamics
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Media appearances

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Education
2012 - 2014
Master's degree
Technical University of Kaiserslautern
2005 - 2009
B.Tech
Eastern Academy of Science and Tech
Social presence
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Behavioral profile

DISC profile (public)

c

Calculativeness (C)

Calculativeness (C) reflects the degree to which a person is likely to be cautious, systematic and analytical. Those scoring high tend to emphasise quality and accuracy.

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