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 currently lead engineering on the enterprise data platform at LinkedIn. Before that, I took Postman's desktop-native API product to the web and incubated 0→1 work beyond HTTP, and built identity and SSO systems at Booking.com under real production traffic.

Selected writing

• 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
• Saying no as a platform EM without becoming the villain

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