I am a seasoned software engineer with over 13 years of professional experience specializing in Ruby on Rails, React, and microservices development. My expertise lies in scalability, performance optimization, and end-to-end product ownership across diverse domains including e-commerce, SaaS, and social media. I am passionate about open-source contributions and have actively contributed to projects such as Rails, AWS gems, and Golang. Throughout my career, I have demonstrated a strong ability to drive team performance and enhance system reliability, as well as improve product quality through automation and innovative integrations such as ChatGPT and Azure OpenAI APIs. I am committed to building robust, high-performing applications and mentoring teams to success, while continuously expanding my technical skills and contributing to the broader tech community.

Alkesh Ghorpade

I am a seasoned software engineer with over 13 years of professional experience specializing in Ruby on Rails, React, and microservices development. My expertise lies in scalability, performance optimization, and end-to-end product ownership across diverse domains including e-commerce, SaaS, and social media. I am passionate about open-source contributions and have actively contributed to projects such as Rails, AWS gems, and Golang. Throughout my career, I have demonstrated a strong ability to drive team performance and enhance system reliability, as well as improve product quality through automation and innovative integrations such as ChatGPT and Azure OpenAI APIs. I am committed to building robust, high-performing applications and mentoring teams to success, while continuously expanding my technical skills and contributing to the broader tech community.

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I am a seasoned software engineer with over 13 years of professional experience specializing in Ruby on Rails, React, and microservices development. My expertise lies in scalability, performance optimization, and end-to-end product ownership across diverse domains including e-commerce, SaaS, and social media. I am passionate about open-source contributions and have actively contributed to projects such as Rails, AWS gems, and Golang.

Throughout my career, I have demonstrated a strong ability to drive team performance and enhance system reliability, as well as improve product quality through automation and innovative integrations such as ChatGPT and Azure OpenAI APIs. I am committed to building robust, high-performing applications and mentoring teams to success, while continuously expanding my technical skills and contributing to the broader tech community.

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Experience Level

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Intermediate

Language

English
Fluent
Marathi (Marāṭhī)
Fluent
Hindi
Fluent

Work Experience

Senior Software Engineer at Jiffy.com
June 30, 2025 - August 26, 2025
Resolved critical on-call production issues during quarterly two-week rotations using PagerDuty, Grafana, and AWS CloudWatch, ensuring high system reliability and minimizing downtime during peak traffic hours. Optimized complex join queries, reducing cron job execution time drastically and improving performance. Integrated ChatGPT and Azure OpenAI APIs for image description generation and vectorization verification. Unified Elastic Search instances across all staging environments, achieving 20% cost savings. Vectorized user-uploaded images for high print quality on apparel and automated background removal using RemoveBG API.
Staff Software Engineer at ShakaCode
January 31, 2024 - August 26, 2025
Upgraded legacy applications such as Data Centers and Egghead from Rails 5 to 7, resolving multilingual PostgreSQL bugs and enhancing functionality. Improved Egghead and Brivity's code coverage significantly using RSpec to enhance test reliability. Contributed to Shakapacker, optimizing performance and enabling faster build times by 20%.
Staff Software Engineer at Saeloun
August 1, 2022 - August 26, 2025
Automated workflows for Activate Care, a SaaS healthcare platform, reducing manual intervention in patient records by 80%. Designed background jobs to trigger workflows, improving operational efficiency. Authored Ruby on Rails blogs that boosted website traffic from 5k to 15k hits per week within a year.
Senior Software Developer at Reflektive
July 1, 2019 - August 26, 2025
Automated HRIS workflows allowing seamless employee data import from various integrations. Enhanced scalability by implementing parallel execution of cron jobs. Utilized Selenium Java to expedite HRIS workflow testing, eliminating manual testing time.
Software Developer at Crowdfire
December 1, 2017 - August 26, 2025
Designed a Go microservice to store properties such as posts, blogs, and videos for network users. Implemented Elasticsearch data storage and developed APIs for generic responses. Built mechanisms for user profiles and metrics that enabled accurate user growth calculations.
Senior Software Developer at TinyOwl
July 1, 2016 - August 26, 2025
Managed payment integrations, adding new wallets seamlessly and reducing payment failures. Refactored localities mapping by removing redundant tables and transitioning functionality to a microservice architecture, enhancing maintainability.
Senior Software Developer at Fab.com
December 1, 2014 - August 26, 2025
Designed a seamless return process eliminating the need for customer care intervention and improving customer satisfaction. Implemented backend logic for refund calculations and automated Return Merchandise Authorizations (RMAs). Addressed ineligible product scenarios to ensure smooth return processing.

Education

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) in Computer Science at Pune Institute of Computer Technology
August 18, 2008 - June 4, 2012

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Industry Experience

Retail, Software & Internet, Healthcare, Education, Other

Experience Level

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