Ujjwal Gulecha is an experienced software engineer and engineering leader with 11 years building high-traffic consumer systems, currently a Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic in San Francisco. He led cross-platform teams at DoorDash, owning discovery surfaces like the homepage and designing promotion platforms that powered major campaigns and reduced core database load by over 20%. His background spans backend, mobile, and web, with hands-on experience in systems using Cassandra, Kotlin, gRPC, Redis, Django, and Postgres. An active angel investor, he has backed startups across fintech, biotech, space and AI, reflecting a deep interest in frontier technologies and product-market fit. Ujjwal combines pragmatic engineering with product impact—shipping scalable microservices and reusable platform libraries from his time at Groupon to DoorDash. Outside of work he shares projects and writing on his personal site, signaling a maker mindset beyond his corporate roles.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San Diego
Bachelor’s Degree Information Science and Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Information Science and Engineering at RV College Of Engineering
Contributions:1 PR, 21 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
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Ujjwal Gulecha - Member Of Technical Staff at Anthropic