About

Chinmay Kulkarni is a highly skilled Product Engineer at Gojek Tech with over 9 years of experience in building scalable systems with clean quality code. He is a system design lover with a keen interest in distributed systems, machine learning, and data structures. Chinmay has hands-on experience in building microservices and refactoring existing code to quality one with pragmatic tests. He has worked on various projects and POCs pertaining to distributed systems and analyzing them for scalability, performance, and cost. As a Lead Software Engineer at Gojek, Chinmay has worked on developing consumer-facing and core platform services that had to be highly scalable and reliable in nature. He has led the team that handled low latency, highly scalable, and reliable communications platform and user-management for Gopay. Chinmay has worked closely with stakeholders to identify requirements, plan delivery with proper estimates, and detail out workable stories for a sprint. He has also contributed to architecture decisions with detailed writeups, helped the team with solutions, mentored juniors, and worked on the ground to keep his hands dirty. Chinmay has led from the front in times of incidents and worked on improving situations with proper monitoring and alerting to increase visibility and reduce the recurrence of incidents. Chinmay has worked with various technologies such as Java, Clojure, Golang, Postgres, MongoDB, Redis, Kafka, AWS, and GCP. He has also worked as a Software Engineer at N26, a mobile-first, branchless challenger bank in the EU. Chinmay has worked on developing secure, scalable, and maintainable microservices. He has designed and developed a secure way to confirm user sensitive actions, a core platform to handle common tasks like notifications and translations, and building distributed systems for an ever-increasing user base and features. Chinmay has contributed heavily towards automated testing and load testing systems. Chinmay holds a Bachelor of Technology degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Walchand College of Engineering, Sangli, where he was a silver medalist. He has also won various national and state-level programming competitions. Chinmay is a quick learner, adaptable, and always ready to learn new things. He loves to work in a highly challenging environment, in a team. His tech stack includes Software Engineering, AWS, Postgres, Spring, Jenkins, Microservices, Big Data, Java, Redis, ML, MongoDB, Kafka, GCP, Backend, Web, Test, Clojure,