About

Girish Bathija is a detail-oriented and hardworking Principal Engineer at upGrad with over 6 years of cumulative industry experience. He has worked at a product company and an investment bank, where he gained expertise in developing web apps, web APIs, calculation engines, and notification components. Girish is comfortable owning all phases of the software development life cycle (SDLC) and specializes in backend development using Spring, Java, relational databases, and MQs. He is proficient in using multithreading, data structures and algorithms, and design principles to build robust and scalable systems. As an enthusiastic learner with a sharp analytical mind, Girish is always curious to know more and committed to continuous improvement. He is an Oracle Certified Java Programmer with a Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology from Mumbai University. Currently, he is working at upGrad, where he is re-designing the architecture for the growth platform using microservices. In his previous roles at upGrad, Girish worked as a Technical Lead, where he designed and developed products from the ground up to increase the efficiency of the operations team by refining and automating manual processes. He also worked as a Senior Software Engineer in the growth team, where he was responsible for developing the backend. Girish's education history includes a Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology from Bharati Vidyapeeth and high school education from R.D. National College and St. Joseph's High School. His tech stack includes backend development, Java, web development, software engineering, Spring, microservices, and senior software engineering. With over 10 years of relevant experience, Girish is a reliable and responsible engineer who is always willing to learn and adapt to new technologies and challenges.