Engineer.
Entrepreneur.

I started my career building backend systems at T-Mobile and Branch, then co-founded a land real estate firm where I wore every hat. I'm looking for a role where the range matters.

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Rohit Panikar
About

Close to the customer,
close to the code.

I'm a software engineer who spent the last three years building a land real estate business from scratch. That means I've written Go services handling billions of requests and I've been on the phone negotiating inherited property deals with families across the country.


I've built ML models, CRM pipelines, and Google Ads funnels — sometimes in the same week. I'm at my best when I can bring the technical and business sides together.

6+
Years in engineering
3+
Years as a founder
24+
Deals closed
$400K+
Capital raised
Experience

Where I've been.

Feb 2023 – Present

Co-Founder

Archer Oaks — Land Real Estate
Co-founded a land acquisition and resale firm, sourcing and closing over two dozen deals nationwide across raw, rural, and urban infill properties. Built automated lead generation systems, managed investor relations securing over $400K in capital, launched PlotLock, and handled the full sales cycle from lead to close.
Python Zoho CRM Google Ads Zapier OpenAI API Sales
Apr 2022 – Feb 2024

Software Engineer

Branch — Deep Linking & Mobile Attribution
Backend engineer at a platform processing over 8 billion daily requests. Owned the QR code generation system for attribution tracking, implemented features in a customer-facing API gateway in Go, and managed containerized deployments with Docker and Kubernetes.
Go Java Javascript Python Docker Kubernetes PostgreSQL
Oct 2020 – Apr 2022

Software Engineer, Tech X

T-Mobile
Trained and deployed ML models using Splunk MLTK to detect anomalous error patterns across SMS, MMS, and RCS messaging traffic. Built Python-based data connectors, Splunk dashboards for operations teams, and served as one of two developers on an internal Vue.js work order application.
Python Splunk MLTK Vue.js JavaScript MongoDB Machine Learning
Sep 2016 – Mar 2020

B.S. Computer Science

UC Irvine
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the University of California, Irvine.
Computer Science
Projects

What I've built.

Product

PlotLock

A property protection service designed to safeguard vacant landowners from title fraud — the largest category of real estate fraud in the United States. Built to address a problem I saw firsthand running Archer Oaks.

Real Estate Fraud Prevention Title Security
Business

Archer Oaks

A land acquisition and resale firm I co-founded from scratch. Built the entire tech stack — automated lead pipelines with Zapier and OpenAI, CRM workflows in Zoho, Google Ads campaigns generating thousands of leads annually, and custom landing pages.

Entrepreneurship Automation Google Ads Zoho
Infrastructure

API Gateway @ Branch

Implemented features in a customer-facing API gateway built in Go, routing tens of millions of requests from external traffic to internal services within a platform processing billions of daily requests.

Go API Design High Scale
Machine Learning

Network Error Detection

Trained and deployed ML models at T-Mobile to detect anomalous error patterns across SMS, MMS, and RCS messaging traffic. Reduced false alert noise for network engineers by distinguishing real spikes from normal fluctuations.

Python Splunk MLTK ML
Contact

Let's talk.

I'm actively looking for my next role. If you think my background is a fit, I'd love to hear from you.

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