About

Upendra Upadhyay is a highly skilled software engineer with 4.45 years of relevant experience in the field. He is passionate about problem-solving and enjoys working with programming languages, databases, AI, and learning new things in general. He has a strong background in Haskell, Rust, and enjoys reading books such as SICP, DDIA, and clean code. Currently, Upendra is working as an SDE at Amazon, where he has been involved in breaking down a monolithic web app into different microservices. He has integrated multiple third-party systems and implemented mechanisms to prevent cascading failures. He has developed tools, created dashboards, and maintained wikis and checklists to monitor and reduce the operational load of his team. Upendra has also worked on the backend and frontend parts of the web app and has resolved bugs and vulnerabilities in the legacy web app. He has driven web app launches across multiple countries and supported QA and product with their queries. Upendra has also experimented with new technology in projects like CDK and introduced them to his team. Prior to Amazon, Upendra worked as a Trainee at Juspay, where he made a testing framework using Purescript and improved the logic of the gateway decider for payment gateways. He also worked as a Project Intern at JSW, where he made a web application for JSW cement ltd. using React.js and node.js. Upendra holds a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science from Swami Keshwanand Inst. of Tech. Mgt. & Gramothan, Jaipur. He also completed his High School education from DAV Public School, Secunderabad. He has also completed a course from Scaler Academy. Upendra's technical skills include Software Engineering, Javascript, Web Development, AI, QA, Microservices, Integration, Frontend and Backend Development, Infra, Testing, NodeJS, Python, Django, MongoDB, Scala, and Java.