Gaurav Deshpande

Software Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India10 yrs 5 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Led development of a Kafka-based loan platform for millions.
Expert in building scalable microservices and clean code practices.
Proven track record in team leadership and product engineering.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech expert specializing in scalable software architecture and microservices.

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Skills

Core Skills

MicroservicesJava

Other Skills

AWS LambdaMongoDBKafkaTeam LeadershipJ2EE/Java EEPythonGoVueJavaScriptHTML 5JSONXMLProtocol buffersXpathXSLT

About

Actively seeking senior/lead/staff software engineering roles across domestic as well as International Markets. At Stealth Startup, my focus is on crafting highly scalable systems and fostering an engineering culture dedicated to clean code and best practices. With a solid background in Java and data structures, I've successfully led a technical team to build a Kafka-based loan platform serving millions. Leveraging my experience from Gojek, I excel in product engineering and team leadership. Our achievements included the development of a critical paylater and merchant loans backbone, reflecting my commitment to scalable solutions and excellence in software craftsmanship. Technical Skills: - Languages: Java, J2EE/Java EE, Python, Go - Front-end: Vue - Web Technologies: JavaScript, HTML 5, JSON, XML, Protocol buffers, Xpath, XSLT - API: REST, gRPC - Architecture: Monolithic, Microservices - Frameworks: Spring, Spring boot, Guice, Guava, Log4j2, Disruptor, AspectJ - Operating Systems: Windows, Linux - Database: Mongodb, PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server, Sybase - IDEs: Intellij IDEA, PyCharm - Build tools: Maven, Gradle - Deployment - Gitlab, Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Nexus - APM - Datadog, Newrelic, Grafana - App servers - Tomcat, JBoss, WebLogic - Version Control: Git, SVN - Unit tests: Junit, Mockito - Misc - flyway, liquibase - Messaging : Kafka, ActiveMQ, IBM/Websphere MQ - Cloud : GCP, AWS Interests: Open source, Data structures, Object-Oriented Programming, Functional programming, Aspect oriented programming, Design patterns, Algorithms, solving complex problems, Research Github Profile : https://github.com/gaurav9822

Experience

10 yrs 5 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 7 mos

Average Tenure

3 yrs 9 mos

Current Experience

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Senior Engineer

Jul 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 9 mos · India · On-site

Developed Unip2p, a peer-to-peer investment platform(founding engineer), designing and implementing critical
microservices for investment and payment domains.
Led a team of junior engineers and 1 senior engineer, overseeing the development of various features on the team.
Refactored services into fault-tolerant Temporal workflows, significantly improving the reliability of credit
decisioning processes, which handled 1.6 million+ requests to date with zero downtime.
Built PowerUp Money onboarding and designed the critical separation of user and product journeys, leading
to 25k+ onboardings post-go-live with zero regressions.
Led data migration for 1.7 million+ users without downtime and data reset for 0.7 million users during
nighttime, involving scaling pods, Kafka partitions, and MongoDB M60 instances at 45k RPM.
Developed AWS Lambda functions in Python to process user events in real-time, integrating with the
LeadSquared sales tool to enhance sales processes and drive business growth.

JavaMicroservicesAWS LambdaMongoDBKafka

Gojek

Senior Software Engineer

Nov 2020 – Jun 2022 · 1 yr 7 mos · India

Built scalable kafka-based loan platform as a technical backbone for 10+ million users of paylater and merchant loans
Led a team of engineers ensuring product engineering culture with high emphasis on clean code, tdd and best practices

JavaKafkaMicroservicesTeam Leadership