About

Mridul Mohan is a Software Engineer 2 at Indeed, with a passion for creating things that solve interesting and complex engineering problems. He has worked on all aspects of software development, gaining a respectable set of technical skills and looking to put them to good use by building things that make a difference. Mridul is not only passionate about programming and designing software but also about technical leadership, developing a vision for engineering efforts and articulating it in a way that gets people excited. He is a maker through and through, expressing his creativity through painting, designing origami, writing analytic philosophy essays, singing, playing the guitar, and composing music. At Indeed, Mridul is working on the Notifications Platform, an internal service that allows product teams to send emails and push notifications to users at the scale of hundreds of millions of messages per day. He has delivered many critical infrastructure components, working end-to-end, from precisely defining requirements to communicating with stakeholders. He has also worked on several scaling and reliability problems, including setting up a platform for sending browser push notifications and WhatsApp messages, scheduling rendered email messages, and handling spam complaints and unsubscribe requests. Mridul regularly gives tech talks, takes technical interviews, and mentors new engineers in the team. His tech stack includes Java, Spring, Spring-boot, Kafka, RabbitMQ, MongoDB, Python, and Django. He is also familiar with technologies such as Terraform, Jenkins, Datadog, Kibana, Kubernetes, and Docker. Before joining Indeed, Mridul worked at Coffeebeans Consulting as a Software Engineer Intern, where he drove the ideation, design, and development of several core features of Fastnext, a recruitment tool based on a machine learning model that predicts how likely a candidate is to switch companies. He wore several hats over the 1.8 years he worked there, including software development, machine learning, data engineering, dev ops, and product management. He also led several teams of developers both onsite and remotely. Mridul holds a Dual Degree (B. Tech, M. Tech) in Ocean Engineering, with a minor in Mathematics for Computer Science, from IIT Madras. He also completed his CBSE 12th grade in Computer Science Stream from Kendriya Vidyalaya Pattom. Mridul's tech stack includes Software Engineering, Spring, ML, Terraform, RabbitMQ, Kubernetes, Docker, MongoDB, Kafka, Jenkins, infra, Data Engineering, Python