About

Ujjwal Pandey is an experienced Engineering Manager with over 7 years of experience in the software development industry. Currently working as a Backend Engineering Manager for Lokal, he has extensive expertise in designing and developing scalable and high-performance backend systems. Prior to his current role, Ujjwal worked as a Software Developer for various companies, including CodeArray Technologies and NFL King of Hill. He designed the architecture for a mobile analytics platform with microservices components for authentication, API modelling, logging, and database layer. He also revamped the entire backend code using PHP and MySQL for an online betting platform. Additionally, he integrated SMS API with backend using Nexmo SMS gateway for Wadja. Ujjwal also worked as a Software Engineer for Cogneau Systems, where he developed a data ingestion framework from scratch to source streaming data from Flume, Kafka, Spark Streaming, etc. and batch data from MySQL, Mongo DB, Excel files, etc. into Spark cluster on AWS. He built modules for data preparation and cleansing by implementing around 30 algorithms for statistical analysis, outlier detection, and data standardization. He also worked closely with the visualization team by creating interactive graphs and maps to illustrate key facts and trends in the underlying data. Ujjwal holds a Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) in Computer Science and Engineering from Kamla Nehru Institute of Technology, Sultanpur. He also completed Class XII from Kendriya Vidyalaya 39 GTC Varanasi Cantt, where he studied Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, and C++. Ujjwal has a diverse tech stack, including AWS, Spark, MySQL, Big Data, Javascript, PHP, MongoDB, Hadoop, NoSQL, Django, SQL, Kafka, Java, Redis, Python, Scala, and Android. He is a skilled Software Engineer, Backend Developer, and Product Manager with relevant experience in both mobile and web development.