Jugal Bhatt

Software Engineer

San Francisco, California, United States4 yrs 10 mos experience
AI EnabledAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

  • Built systems at Amazon serving millions of users.
  • Created content for 200K+ followers on social media.
  • Optimized job search strategies leading to 50+ recruiter messages monthly.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-focused Software Engineer with expertise in FinTech and SaaS.

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Skills

Core Skills

Data EngineeringMachine LearningCrisis ManagementSystem ArchitectureDistributed SystemsIntegrationFintechResearchBackend DevelopmentFrontend Development

Other Skills

ETLAWSProcess ImprovementTeam CoordinationAIData AnalysisAvailability ManagementAI Traffic ManagementAPI DevelopmentMonitoringJavaGolangUPI IntegrationUser RetentionBlockchain

About

Hi, I'm Jugal Bhatt I grew up in India, graduated a year early just so I could start working sooner. Not because I had to. Because I was impatient to build things. That impatience took me from VIT to UIUC for my Masters, from interning at companies like Verint to becoming a Founding Engineer at a YC startup, to now building systems at Amazon that serve millions of users. Each step taught me something the previous one couldn't. But the chapter I am most proud of is not on my resume. In my final year of college, I applied to over 700 roles and got 3 interviews. I was doing everything I was told to do and it was not working. So I stopped following the playbook and started building one of my own. I optimized my LinkedIn, got deliberate about my brand, and started sharing what I was learning publicly. Now I get 50+ inbound recruiter messages every single month without applying to a single role. Today I create content around AI, tech, and careers for 30K+ people on LinkedIn and 170K+ on Instagram. I have been featured in Business Insider, judged hackathons, and spoken at events across the Bay Area. I collaborate with companies and share practical, no-fluff advice for engineers who are figuring it out the same way I had to. I care especially about: Engineers who are early in their careers and do not know where to start Making AI tools actually useful for everyday people Honest conversations about what job searching really looks like Building in public and letting the work speak for itself If you are navigating a job search, building something interesting, or just want to talk shop, reach out. Connect with me: jugal@thecherrymedia.com

Experience

4 yrs 10 mos
Total Experience
10 mos
Average Tenure
8 mos
Current Experience

Amazon

Software Engineer

Aug 2025Present · 8 mos · On-site

  • Orchestrated crisis management as the primary on-call engineer during a major AWS infrastructure outage affecting 35+ critical services; coordinated response across 5+ teams to resolve 125+ tickets and 59 alarms while maintaining service availability.
  • Engineered an end-to-end ETL pipeline for tax refund disbursements, integrating 3 systems to automate previously manual workflows; achieved an 80% reduction in operational overhead.
  • Spearheaded Process Improvement by authoring comprehensive COE (Correction of Error) reports to identify communication gaps; drove 100% accountability on 3 high-priority action items, resulting in measurable stability improvements.
  • Developed an AI-powered query agent using machine learning for internal bonus data analysis, automating 100% of non-finalized financial data validation and enabling real-time record comparison with 28-day preview capabilities
Crisis ManagementETLMachine LearningAWSProcess ImprovementData Engineering

Litellm (yc w23)

Founding Software Engineer

Jul 2025Aug 2025 · 1 mo · San Francisco, CA · Hybrid

  • Built the MCP gateway at LiteLLM enabling customers to use MCPs with their current setup used by 40+ Fortune 500 Companies.
  • Worked on a team of 3 including 2 cofounders to mainitain 99.99% availability across the system.
  • Maintained live repository that handles over 36% of world's AI traffic.
System ArchitectureAvailability ManagementAI Traffic Management

Siebel school of computing and data science

Graduate Research And Teaching Assistant

Jan 2025May 2025 · 4 mos · Champaign, Illinois, United States · On-site

Ischool at illinois

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Aug 2024Jan 2025 · 5 mos · Champaign, Illinois, United States

Distributed Systems

Verint

Software Engineer Intern

May 2024Aug 2024 · 3 mos · Urbana, Illinois, United States · Remote

  • Working as an Intern in the Recording Integration Service team(RIS) which deals with integrating different third-party services with different internal services via adapters.
  • Streamlined and utilized Amazon SDKs in Java to update the Amazon media adapter used by 17 clients
  • Enabled monitoring of systems using Anomaly monitoring and detection algorithms to maintain a
  • better and holistic view of the systems.
  • Worked on updating the Cisco Java-SIP adapter which is used by 60% of the clients for their contact
  • center recordings and metadata. The adapter uses SIP Proxy server at it’s core
IntegrationMonitoringJava

Fam

Software Engineer

Sep 2022Nov 2023 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Owner of the service to create the TPAP(Third Party Application Providers) in partnership with Yes Bank, This service enables users to connect their bank accounts and pay using UPI, and the entire UPI infrastructure that we know and love.
  • The entire TPAP service was written in Golang using the native net http library. It included connecting Uber task queues, consuming the NPCI upi infra and setting up the entire service.
  • Worked on user retention features like FamPlay and Mission to increase user retention on the
  • platform. This feature increased adoption by 20% for recharge transactions and helped acquire 2x more partners
  • Worked on streamlining metrics to Grafana for production applications and services
  • Created the ETL data pipeline to transfer data for analytics by shifting MongoDB data to Redshift.
GolangUPI IntegrationUser RetentionFinTech

Vellore institute of technology

Research Intern

May 2022Jan 2023 · 8 mos · Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India

  • Working under Dr. B.K. Tripathy as a research fellow/intern
  • writing survey paper for ‘Adoption of AI based Blockchain’
  • Contributing a chapter - ‘Deep learning in text analysis’ for a springer text
ResearchAIBlockchain

Bobble ai

Software Engineer Intern

Jan 2022Mar 2022 · 2 mos · Remote

  • Worked in porting the backend legacy PHP code to Golang, This included making the APIs and the
  • services way faster than what it was.
  • Worked on making a new feature that would ensure that the data of the 10 Million users is properly handled and all the regulations are followed, so as to make meaningful analysis
GolangAPI DevelopmentBackend Development

Trademarkia

Software Engineer

Aug 2021Nov 2021 · 3 mos · Remote

  • Led the Backend implementation of the Trademark Perfect platform, providing online services to
  • consumers that require intellectual property protection.
  • Developed the Trademarkia Recruitment Portal. The platform includes an integrated development
  • environment with an online judging system, used to test the candidate’s coding skills.
  • Worked primarily in the Backend team. Technologies used include NodeJs with Typescript, SQL Toolkit,
  • GoLang, AWS, Google Cloud, Stripe etc.
Backend DevelopmentNode.jsSQL

Codechef-vit student chapter

3 roles

Chairperson

Jun 2021Sep 2022 · 1 yr 3 mos

Senior Core Committee Member

Jan 2021Jun 2021 · 5 mos

Core-Committee member

Dec 2019Jan 2021 · 1 yr 1 mo

Notifvia

Software Developer Intern

Jul 2020Nov 2020 · 4 mos · Surat, Gujarat, India

  • Notifvia is powerful chatbot builder for facebook which provides the platform as a SaaS, as a GUI making it easy for the user to make messenger bots.
React.jsFrontend Development

Josh talks

Software Development lntern

Jan 2020Feb 2020 · 1 mo · Gurgaon, India

  • Worked on a project alongside Facebook and Ministry of Tribal Affairs India.

Education

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Masters — Computer Science

Jan 2024May 2025

Vellore Institute of Technology

B.Tech — Computer Science

Jul 2019Jul 2023

Delhi Public School Surat

Jan 2017Jan 2019

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