About

Ujjwal Gulecha is a skilled Senior Software Engineer with over 5 years of relevant experience. He is proficient in algorithm design, designing scalable systems, and problem-solving. He has extensive knowledge of various technologies such as AWS, S3, Dynamodb, Cassandra, protobuf, Grpc, REST, Http, Elasticsearch, and Redis. He is also proficient in programming languages such as Kotlin, Java, and Python. Ujjwal has experience working with Linux/Unix, Windows, and OSX operating systems. Currently, Ujjwal is working at Doordash, where he is responsible for the discovery experience. Previously, he worked as a Software Engineer at Doordash, where he was part of the Ads & Promotions team. During his time there, he designed and developed the promotions and banners platform, which is currently being used to run millions of promotions and banners, generating significant value by getting new customers, retaining old ones, and encouraging user spending. He was also a key contributor to the biggest and most successful promotion run by Doordash - MCD $1 million big mac, which was powered by the platform he built. Ujjwal worked on several issues and projects spread across multiple teams like Search, Product, Consumer Web, Android, iOS, Dashpass, and Orders. He reduced more than 20% of the main Doordash monolith database load in a very short time, giving wins after wins every week. This was very crucial for the company to be able to function well during the holidays when most people are out. Ujjwal used technologies such as Cassandra, Kotlin, Grpc, protobuf, Redis, Django, Python, and Postgres. Before joining Doordash, Ujjwal worked at Groupon as a Software Engineer, where he was part of the 3rd party inventory team. He built a micro-service from scratch, which is being used to integrate with external partners like Mindbody. It has helped Groupon move towards the goal of Voucherless Deals. He was responsible for building scalable platform systems that are reusable and have very efficient response times. Ujjwal was also responsible for building efficient RESTful APIs that are used for transactional operations. He built inner open-source libraries for helping build the software architecture at Groupon. He worked with internal and external teams to coordinate and develop services based on requirements. Ujjwal holds a Master’s degree in Computer Science from the University of California and a Bachelor’s degree in Information Science