About

Ujjwal Gulecha is a highly skilled Senior Software Engineer at DoorDash with over 7 years of experience in designing scalable systems and solving complex problems. He is proficient in various programming languages such as Kotlin, Java, and Python and has a strong understanding of technologies such as AWS, S3, DynamoDB, Cassandra, protobuf, gRPC, REST, Http, Elasticsearch, and Redis. In his current role at DoorDash, Ujjwal is responsible for the consumer discovery experience, where he leverages his expertise in software engineering to create innovative solutions for the platform. He has also worked as a Software Engineer at DoorDash, where he was part of the Ads & Promotions team. During his tenure, he designed and developed the promotions and banners platform, which is currently being used to run millions of promotions and banners generating significant value for the company. Ujjwal was also a key contributor to the biggest and most successful promotion run by DoorDash, the MCD $1 million big mac, which was powered by the platform he built. Before joining DoorDash, Ujjwal worked at Groupon as a Software Engineer, where he built a micro-service from scratch that integrated with external partners like Mindbody. He was also responsible for building scalable platform systems and efficient RESTful APIs that were used for transactional operations. Ujjwal also built inner open-source libraries for helping build the software architecture at Groupon. Ujjwal holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from the University of California and a Bachelor's degree in Information Science and Engineering from R. V. College of Engineering, Bangalore. He has a strong understanding of software engineering and is proficient in various technologies such as AWS, Redis, Cassandra, Elastic Search, Python, Kotlin, iOS, Search, Postgres, Web, Microservices, and Java. Overall, Ujjwal is a highly skilled and experienced Senior Software Engineer with a strong track record of designing and building scalable systems. He is passionate about solving complex problems and creating innovative solutions that drive business value.