About

Umesh Mali is a highly skilled and experienced software engineer with expertise in backend development and distributed and scalable systems. With an academic background in computer science and engineering from the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India, Umesh has a keen appetite for problem-solving and is passionate about building software that not only works but amazes. Umesh has worked with several startups and has experience in competitive programming. He has also completed several computer science-related courses, both in institutes and online, and is open to learning more and taking up challenging projects. Learning and working in a rapidly evolving ecosystem excites him. Currently, Umesh works as a Senior Software Engineer (L4) at Careem, a leading ride-hailing company that was recently acquired by Uber. He is part of the Customer Engagement & Promotions team and is responsible for developing distributed and scalable systems. Prior to his current role, Umesh worked as a Software Engineer III at Udaan, where he was part of the Ads Monetisation Tech team and was responsible for ads tracking, serving, and discovery at scale with omni-channel. He also worked as a Senior Software Engineer at Flipkart, where he was part of the Flipkart Wholesale Supply Engineering Team and was responsible for the design, ease of evolution, quality, performance, scaling, and availability of the systems. He also drove the creation of next-generation extensible Accounting & Settlements platforms, customisation, and tools to support continuous scaling, internationalisation, and platform extensions. Umesh has expertise in several technologies, including Kubernetes, MySQL, Hadoop, Elastic Search, Kafka, Python, Ruby, Java, and Apache Hive. He has relevant experience of 7.95 years and is a research scientist with a deep understanding of software engineering. Umesh is a computer science enthusiast who keeps pace with evolving technologies and is always open to learning more and taking up challenging projects.