About

Monojit Dey is a Senior Software Engineer at Uber and an experienced backend engineer with over 9 years of experience in building scalable systems across different business domains such as supply chain, finance, and ride-sharing. He has a keen interest in developing large scale distributed systems and is proficient in technologies such as Kubernetes, Golang, Kafka, Cassandra, and Apache Zookeeper. Currently, at Uber, Monojit is working in the Infrastructure Engineering and Product Engineering teams. He is responsible for building a Kubernetes-based container platform for all of Uber's batch workloads and optimizing capacity utilization by means of elastic resource sharing. He has also designed and developed an end-to-end planning orchestrator for Uber's High Capacity Vehicles (HCV) business, which provides a self-serve module for Uber's operations team to perform daily operations efficiently and intelligently. Additionally, he has developed a high-scale payment disbursement service for Uber’s global rental partners. Prior to Uber, Monojit worked at qplum, where he was responsible for building and maintaining the portfolio management platform. He has worked on multiple modules and contributed heavily to the backend and data-pipelines of qplum. He has also built a caching framework in strategy simulation to reduce simulation time and developed a market-data processing pipeline using Apache Airflow. Monojit has a Bachelor's degree in Technology in Computer Engineering from the West Bengal University of Technology and a Master's degree in Technology in Computer Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. He is proficient in a wide range of technologies such as Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Padrino, Active-Record, Rest-Client, Mysql, Apache, Nginx, Passenger, Unicorn, Rack, Swift MQ, Puppet, GO (CI), Jenkins (CI), Git, and more. With over 11 years of relevant experience, Monojit is a highly skilled and experienced software engineer with a passion for building large scale distributed systems.