Gaurav Ranjan
Software Engineer
Bengaluru,Karnataka
Summary
Impact driven software architecture and scalable systems expert. Skilled at decreasing downtime and spending while increasing sales and customer satisfaction. Organized and dedicated to streamlining procedures and leading teams with passion.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Engineering Manager
Urban Clap Technologies Pvt Ltd
Bangalore, Karnataka
Oct.2020 - Current
- Leading team of 6 engineers creating provider education ecosystem for largest base of gig workers platform in Asia
- Created new ecosystem to automate on job training of 200K partners, trending around 80% adoption globally
- Created an in-house Content Management System (CMS) to support >200GB of digital training content
- Brought down training infra cost by ~35% in 2 quarters by automating batch & resource allocation
- Revamped campaign notification system, sending out ~1M content-based notifications per day
- Created new partner landing page, and brought down app loading p95 response times by ~75%
- Optimized MongoDb peak loads from 40% to 15% by adding archival policies, API optimizations and document pipelining
Lead Software Engineer
Practo Technologies Pvt Ltd
Bangalore, Karnataka
Aug.2017 - Oct.2020
- Led Practo Consult product engineering team through a period of 30x growth
- Scaled up platform operations to handle 12,000 DAU from 300 DAU within a year
- Brought down active MySQL connections to 1/3rd
- Implemented archival system integrating AWS Glacier with retrieval pathways
- Containerized system to scale horizontally by combining Kubernetes, AWS SQS, SNS, PHP FPM
- Incorporated autoscaling policies leading to cost reduction by 80
Senior Software Engineer
Winterrain Technologies Pvt Ltd
Gurgaon, Haryana
Oct.2016 - May.2017
Founding Member
OOO Marketplaces Pvt Ltd
Delhi, Delhi
Feb.2016 - Oct.2016
- Part of founding team of hyper-local e-commerce solution, routing orders and connecting vendors to customers
- Passionately owned complete backend, built on Node.JS, MySQL, Elastic-search & Solr
- Integrated Google GIS APIs with Mongo DB to build real-time solution which guaranteed delivery within 1.5 hours
- Central part of end-to-end startup cycle, including investor meetings, customer acquisition
- Continuously developed order pipeline, culminating in fulfillment of 1,000 orders/month
Software Engineer
Royal Bank of Scotland IDC
Delhi, Delhi
Jul.2013 - Dec.2015
- Collaborated with London headquarters on development of financial products, including international market settlement platform, deal lifecycle management system, and legal trade confirmation & affirmation platform
Software Engineering Intern
Adobe
Delhi, Delhi
Feb.2013 - Jul.2013
- Worked on Adobe CQ5, a web based content management system
- Implemented search by colour functionality in images through Lucene library
Education
Bachelor of Technology - Information Technology
Indian Institute of Information Technology
Allahabad Jul.2009 - Jun.2013
Skills
NodeJS
Java
Python
PHP
MongoDB
MySQL
AWS
Docker
Project Management
JavaScript
Quote
If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.
Steve Jobs
Timeline
Engineering Manager
Urban Clap Technologies Pvt Ltd
Oct.2020 - Current
Lead Software Engineer
Practo Technologies Pvt Ltd
Aug.2017 - Oct.2020
Senior Software Engineer
Winterrain Technologies Pvt Ltd
Oct.2016 - May.2017
Founding Member
OOO Marketplaces Pvt Ltd
Feb.2016 - Oct.2016
Software Engineer
Royal Bank of Scotland IDC
Jul.2013 - Dec.2015
Software Engineering Intern
Adobe
Feb.2013 - Jul.2013
Bachelor of Technology - Information Technology
Indian Institute of Information Technology
Jul.2009 - Jun.2013