Hello! I'm Rahul Khinchi, a Solutions Engineer and Developer Advocate specializing in API technologies, developer experience, and enterprise implementations. I bring expertise in API observability, governance, technical writing, and building developer communities.

I'm currently working at Treblle as a Solutions Engineer & Developer Advocate, where I bridge the gap between technical implementation and developer education. I work on enterprise deployments, create comprehensive documentation, build developer tools, and foster community engagement around API best practices.

Solutions Engineering:

• Lead enterprise implementations across multi-cloud environments for API observability and governance
• Deliver technical demos and sales engineering support for complex API use cases
• Debug and troubleshoot customer API environments, helping teams solve critical integration challenges
• Design solution architectures covering API security, observability, governance, and lifecycle management
• Test and validate API gateway integrations (WSO2, Apigee, Kong, MuleSoft)
• Create deployment guides, troubleshooting documentation, and technical whitepapers

Developer Advocacy:

• Restructure and maintain comprehensive technical documentation
• Create educational content including use case tutorials, workflow guides, and API knowledge base
• Build developer tools and starter kits to accelerate API integration
• Host webinars, deliver technical talks, and engage with developer communities
• Manage community growth and developer outreach initiatives
• Write customer case studies, technical blogs, and release notes

• Customer Success: Technical debugging, solution architecture, enterprise implementations, deployment planning
• Sales Engineering: Technical demos, product presentations, requirement analysis, solution design
• Integration Testing: API gateway validation, SDK testing, hands-on platform validation
• Documentation: Deployment guides, troubleshooting workflows, technical specifications

• Technical Writing: Documentation, tutorials, case studies, whitepapers, blog posts, release notes
• Developer Education: Knowledge base creation, starter kits, workflow guides, use case tutorials
• Community Management: Discord moderation, social media engagement, event organization
• Content Creation: Webinars, podcasts, technical talks, video tutorials
• Developer Tools: SDK development, API starter kits, governance tools

• Cloud Platforms: AWS, Google Cloud, Azure
• Container Orchestration: Kubernetes, Docker
• Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Ansible
• CI/CD: GitHub Actions, Jenkins, automated workflows
• Scripting: Shell scripting, Bash, automation tools

• API Management: REST APIs, API security, API observability, API governance
• API Gateways: WSO2, Apigee, Kong, MuleSoft, AWS, Azuew
• API Monitoring: Performance tracking, error detection, compliance monitoring
• API Best Practices: Security patterns, governance frameworks, lifecycle management

• Languages: JavaScript, Java
• Databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL
• Version Control: Git, GitHub
• Build Tools: Maven, npm
• Testing: Integration testing, SDK validation

• Treblle Documentation - Complete documentation restructure and migration
• Onboarding Checklist - Enterprise customer setup guide
• API Knowledge Base - Comprehensive API learning resources
• 15 Use Case Tutorials covering debugging, compliance, performance, security
• 5 Workflow Guides for common API management scenarios

• AI API Starter Kits - Production-ready API integration templates
• AI Prompt Enhancer - Tool demonstrating API governance capabilities

• Customer Case Studies - Production implementation stories
• Release Notes - Product update documentation
• Technical Blogs - API security, governance, observability
• Technical Whitepapers - Private cloud deployment, API modernization, gateway migration

• Product Webinars - API Starter Kits demonstrations
• Technical Talks - API observability presentations at meetups and universities
• Weekly Discord Sessions - Interactive developer education and Q&A

I'm proudly building the DeCodeCafe Community and serve as a GitHub Campus Expert, actively fostering collaboration and knowledge sharing. Previously served as Google Developer Students Club Lead and Beta Microsoft Learn Student Ambassador, driving impactful initiatives and engaging with diverse technical audiences.

• GitHub Campus Expert
• DeCodeCafe Community - Founder

Developer Advocate @ Syncloop (June 2023 - December 2023)

• Organized virtual hackathon generating 4k+ interactions and 450 signups
• Implemented API Badge Program enhancing API literacy among developers
• Conducted podcasts with industry leaders, hosted office hours, managed Discord community
• Organized Twitter Spaces and curated LinkedIn newsletter

Open Source Developer @ Google Summer of Code (May 2022 - September 2022)

• Automated Checkstyle release process using Java, CI/CD, Shell Script, Docker, and Maven
• Integrated linting tools and implemented Token support feature in 10.2 release
• Project Report

• checkstyle/checkstyle
• checkstyle/contribution

• Hashnode
• Treblle
• GFG
• Dev.to

Technical Talks & Presentations:

• Talk 1 - API Observability presentation
• Talk 2 - Developer Relations and API best practices
• Talk 3 - API security and governance
• Talk 4 - Building with APIs

Product Hunt Launches:

• Treblle V3 Launch - Led strategy resulting in 600+ upvotes

In my free time, I draw inspiration from sports, notably CR7, recognizing the parallels between discipline and hard work in athletics and professional life. As a former state-level athlete, I achieved a remarkable 11.27-second timing in the 100 meters.

• 👨‍🦰 I'm 23 🎉
• 🌍 I'm based in Ahmedabad, India
• ✉️ You can contact me at rahulkhinchirk7@gmail.com or Link