Ujwalendu Prakash

Director of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India15 yrs 10 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

14 years of experience in software engineering.
Expert in building microservices and cloud solutions.
Passionate mentor fostering best practices in engineering.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech expert with strong capabilities in microservices and cloud architecture.

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Skills

Core Skills

MicroservicesDjangoAwsDevopsNodejsReactReact Native

Other Skills

Django REST FrameworkProject ManagementPeople ManagementEngineering ManagementTeam ManagementLeadershipCoaching & MentoringApache AirflowApache KafkaProduct DevelopmentAnsibleKubernetesTerraformCeleryRabbitMQ

About

I am a Director of Engineering at Bright Money, a fintech company that helps people manage their finances and debts. With over 14 years of experience in the software industry, I have developed and deployed web and mobile applications for various domains and platforms, using technologies and frameworks such as Python, Django, Ruby, PHP, Node.js, React.js, React Native, and AWS. At Bright Money, I lead the Platforms team that builds and maintains microservices for event management, firebase integration, and external API gateway. I also mentor and coach other engineers on best practices, test-driven development, and dev ops culture. I am passionate about creating innovative and user-friendly solutions that solve real-world problems and deliver value. I am always eager to learn new skills and tools that can enhance my performance and productivity.

Experience

15 yrs 10 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 3 mos

Average Tenure

6 yrs 1 mo

Current Experience

Bright money

Director of Engineering

Apr 2020 – Present · 6 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

❖ Built The Platforms team from scratch
❖ Mentored the team members on several tech stacks across multiple teams
❖ Lead the development of several projects
➢ EMS (Event Management Service)
■ A Django based microservice ecosystem for forwarding events to multiple analytics or notification channels such as Clevertap, Mixpanel, Facebook Snapchat etc...
■ Used Django, Celery, RabbitMQ, Kafka
➢ Firestore Service
■ A Djanog based REST API service for sending updates to mobile client via Firebase
■ Used Django, Kafka, Celery
➢ Migrated all external APIs to AWS API Gateway
■ Architected the End-to-End request flow
■ Used AWS API Gateway, AWS Lambda, AWS ELB
➢ Other Infra related projects
■ Infrastructure as Code using Ansible, Jenkins
■ CI/CD from scratch using Jenkins and Fabfile
■ Dockerize several microservices and deployed on Kubernetes (AWS EKS)

MicroservicesDjango REST FrameworkProject ManagementPeople ManagementEngineering ManagementTeam Management+9

Blueorca

Principle Consultant

Jul 2018 – Apr 2020 · 1 yr 9 mos · Bangalore

❖ Built multiple teams across services from scratch
❖ Mentored the team members on several tech stacks eg ELK, AWS, Nodejs, Reactjs, React Native
etc.
❖ Lead the Test Driven Development. Also set up a TDD and Dev Ops culture
❖ Lead the set up of CI/CD pipeline using AWS code build
❖ Lead the development of several projects
➢ Eyewear E-Commerce portal
■ A Reactjs web app with microservices for backend
■ Different microservices developed in nodejs/php
➢ Interactive app for co-working space
■ A React Native app with Rest API server and CMS in Nodejs/Koajs and Reactjs
➢ Professional networking platform for women
■ Architecture design for backend in AWS using dynamodb, Lambda, AppSync etc.
➢ Interactive quiz based learning app for kids with CMS
■ A React Native app with Rest API server and CMS using Laravel and Reactjs
➢ Location based hyperlocal in car advertising solution(deployed in Uber India)
■ An android app for in car advertisement display with Rest API server and Reports
using Nodejs and Reactjs
➢ E-commerce portal for Gift Vouchers (exclusively for Amazon India)
■ Web front end using Reactjs
■ Rest API server and Reporting using Nodejs and Reactjs

NodejsReactjsReact NativeKubernetesMicroservicesProject Management+5

Go-jek india

Product Engineer

Jul 2016 – Mar 2018 · 1 yr 8 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

MicroservicesProject ManagementProduct Development

Cerebrahm innovations pvt ltd

Innovation Engineer L-2

Dec 2015 – Jul 2016 · 7 mos · Bangalore

Working as a lead engineer. Worked on whole new infrastructure in aws cloud. Elasticsearch.
Improved performance by 5X.

Product Development

Bsb - bharti softbank

Software Engineer

Oct 2012 – Dec 2015 · 3 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Worked as a server developer for games.
Worked on games platform. developed mobile sdk for platform.
Independently worked on analytics tool for games.
Developed Content Curation tool to powers Hike's News module.

Product Development

Zynga

2 roles

Software Engineer

Feb 2012 – Sep 2012 · 7 mos

Working on productizing hiphop-php, a php compiler which converts php code to c++ source code and compiles it.

Associate Software Engineer

Jul 2010 – Feb 2012 · 1 yr 7 mos

I was an early member of my team. My team was responsible for developing performance measurement tool. This product helps in enhancing the server side performance of games.