About

Dhruv Baveja is a seasoned Senior Software Engineer with over 8 years of relevant experience in the software industry. He is currently working at Uber, where his major tech stack includes Python and Django. Previously, he worked as a Staff Software Engineer at Hackerearth, where he contributed to several projects across the board, from backend to infrastructure to frontend, using tech stacks such as Python, Django, React, C++, AWS, and Jenkins. At Hackerearth, Dhruv owned the core of the company's platform, the Code Evaluation Engine and pipeline, and built an external API suite to onboard companies like Facebook on this code eval pipeline, delivering up to ~1M code executions in a day. He also worked on customer-facing features, internal tools, and behind-the-scenes orchestrators to automate previously manual processes like config management system, microservices deployment handler, and tenant management system. Dhruv also contributed to cost and management overhead reduction efforts on the infrastructure side to smooth out day-to-day tasks and reduce on-call headaches. Prior to Hackerearth, Dhruv worked as a Software Developer at Infratab, where he worked on ETL pipeline for events and data generated by IOT devices, which runs periodically. He also worked on an operational data store (ODS) system, which is the core of the pipeline, responsible for fetching data from sources, creating business objects from data, and uploading the data to multiple cloud storage and data warehousing systems like Snowflake, Google's bigquery, Google cloud storage, and Azure storage. Dhruv's major tech stack includes Python, Django, MSSQL, PostgreSQL, Celery, Docker, Ubuntu, Nginx, UWSGI, Flask, Ansible, MySQL, MongoDB, Kafka, and AWS. He has experience working on health and IOT domains as a backend developer and a data engineer. He has worked in a team as well as alone on multiple different projects. Dhruv holds a Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) in Computer Science and Engineering from JMIT, Radaur. He completed his 12th from DMA-1. Dhruv has a strong background in software engineering, backend development, data engineering, and integration. He is a proactive team player and a mentor to interns and SDE1s.