Hi!! Ujjwal Here
Software Engineer from West Lafayette, USA
6+ years building distributed systems and cloud-native applications. I specialize in low-latency, high-throughput backend services delivering platforms used by 2M+ users with 99.9% reliability ⚡
About
Hello World!, I'm Ujjwal Jain! A Software Engineer with 6+ years of experience building distributed systems and cloud-native applications, specializing in low-latency, high-throughput backend services. I am passionate about creating scalable solutions and contributing to the developer community.
I specialize in database optimization, event-driven architectures, and real-time data pipelines, delivering platforms used by 2M+ users with 99.9% reliability. My expertise spans across Python, Java, C/C++, JavaScript, TypeScript, Node.js, React, and modern cloud technologies including AWS, GCP, Azure, Docker, and Kubernetes.
Beyond work, I love exploring new technologies and turning ideas into reality through personal projects (A Lot).
Let's connect and collaborate to build something amazing together!
Education
Purdue University, Daniels School of Business
Master of Business and Technology
Period: 2025—2026
Expected Graduation: Expected December 2026
CGPA/Details: Awarded Fellowship from the Mitch Daniels School of Business
Location: West Lafayette, IN
Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University
Bachelor of Technology in Information Technology
Period: June 2015 - May 2019
Graduation: Completed May 2019
CGPA/Details: 8.08/10
Location: Delhi, India
Experience
Starportal Software LLP
Engineering Lead (Founder Role)
Employment Type: Full-time
Employment Period: Dec 2023 - July 2024
- *Designed and implemented distributed transaction infrastructure across 10+ networks, enabling fault-tolerant messaging and high-throughput APIs that processed 1M+ reqs/day
- *Achieved sub-100ms latency by engineering a WebSocket-based streaming layer for high-frequency trading data, enabling traders to execute orders faster and improve profitability
- *Implemented secure authentication and platform hardening using TOTP, short-lived JWTs with RBAC, encrypted secrets, audit trails, and rate limits/abuse controls protecting trading actions and APIs end-to-end
- *Architected cloud-native microservices on AWS, scaling to 250K+ and 50K+ MAU users, with real-time data pipelines
Intract Software Pvt Ltd
Lead Software Engineer
Employment Type: Full-time
Employment Period: Nov 2022 - Dec 2023
- *Led the core backend architecture of a global guest platform for 2M+ users, building services with Node.js, Redis, Docker, and Kafka-based infrastructure to load 1B records and process 30K+ events/sec concurrently
- *Engineered scalable onboarding flows and integration pipelines for 50+ apps as B2B partner, enabling a 6-week campaign that onboarded 1M+ users and drove $3M+ in quarterly revenue through fault-tolerant pipelines
- *Built low-latency-based rewards system with eligibility checks, fraud/abuse controls, rate limits, and auditable payout workflows to improve guest completion and retention during peak traffic
Syndr LLC
Senior Software Developer
Employment Type: Full-time
Employment Period: Oct 2021 - Nov 2022
- *Architected distributed backend systems in Python and Java, implementing service orchestration with Kubernetes, gRPC-based inter-service communication, and load balancing to support large concurrent users with high availability
- *Implemented event-driven automation services, leveraging cron jobs, WebSockets, and cloud functions to execute 50K+ users and increase participation rates by 52%
Ion Group
Software Developer
Employment Type: Full-time
Employment Period: June 2019 - Oct 2021
- *Enhanced low-latency trading systems by evolving TCP-based recovery protocol in C++, reducing master-slave sync time by 89%, and improved trading online for 2K+ per-session across for global banks
- *Built an automated Linux benchmarking tool to compare and validate new system releases against previous versions by feeding high-volume log data, leveraging multithreading for parallel parsing, reducing manual analysis time by 80%
- *Delivered 100+ CI/CD releases and automated pipelines for global banks, cutting incident response time by 60%
Stack
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Databases
Projects(2)
Certifications & Honors
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