Ujjwal Deswal — CTO

As a Senior Software Engineer with 6 years of experience, I specialize in developing scalable and reliable systems with a strong focus on architecture, design patterns, and data structures. I hold a Bachelor of Engineering degree from Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology, Delhi University, with a CGPA of 8.54. My technical expertise includes Java, Spring Boot, Python, Solr, MySql, Redis, MongoDB, Aurora, DynamoDB, Flask, JavaScript, ReactJs and AWS, Distributed Cluster. I am proficient in CI/CD, Git, Grafana, New Relic, Splunk, ArgoCD, GoCD, GitOps, Git Action, EKS, and JUnit. I hold AWS Cloud Practitioner and AWS Solutions Architect Associate certifications. In my current role at McKinsey & Company, I lead the architecture, design, and development of various components of the Global Level Authentication & Authorization system via AWS API Gateway attached with Lambda Authorizer alone with BFF. I have also revamped and re-architected the whole Expertise Search engine, optimizing its indexing algorithm from 5 hours to 30 minutes while achieving a 90% optimization rate. I have led engineers in the Expertise Search team and have migrated the system from On-Prem to AWS, resulting in a 42% cost optimization. Prior to join McKinsey, I worked with Paytm, and Magicpin, where I played a key role in building several systems. At Paytm, I re-architected the Payment Gateway for high throughput from Redis sentinel to Redis Cluster with master-slave topology. I also optimized the UPI Collect flow by re-architecting it with a multithreading Redis-based approach. At Magicpin, I built the Brand Auto-Approval Flow, which uses OCR and NLP to detect brands from bills and provides cashback while onboarding new brands. I have won several awards and recognition for my work, including the Distinctive Rating at McKinsey, the Tech Hackathon award, and the MVP Award. I stood 2nd in Codifica Concorrrenza on Hackerrank conducted by IEEE MAIT. I also mentor at Scaler and Newton School for DSA. I am currently open to opportunities and If you're interested in learning more about my experience or would like to discuss a potential opportunity, please feel free to contact me at ujjwaldeswal6@gmail.com.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-heavy Fullstack engineer with expertise in SaaS and Fintech solutions.

Location: Gurugram, Haryana, India

Experience: 7 yrs 7 mos