Ujjwal Mairh is a Head of Engineering based in Helsinki with 11 years of experience building engineering organizations into competitive advantages. He blends hands-on full-stack development—contributing to notable open-source projects like the Apollo Universal Starter Kit—with senior leadership roles at startups and scale-ups across Finland. Previously an Engineering Manager and Lead Developer at Pharmadata, he has scaled teams, shipped production-ready systems, and mentored technical leaders. Comfortable moving between strategic engineering leadership and code-level improvements, he has a track record of improving developer experience (SSR, metadata handling) and backend clarity in OSS contributions. As a fractional technical advisor and community volunteer, he brings both pragmatic product focus and broad ecosystem engagement. He holds advanced computer science training and a founder’s perspective from an earlier CPTO role, giving him a rare mix of technical depth and entrepreneurial instinct.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Tampere University of Technology 1965-2018
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer Science at Jaypee University of Information Technology
Apollo Universal Starter Kit is a SEO-friendly, fully-configured, modular starter application that helps developers to streamline web, server, and mobile development with cutting-edge technologies and ultimate code reuse.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:128 commits, 48 PRs, 86 pushes in 11 months
Contributions summary:Ujjwal primarily contributed to the frontend and backend aspects of the application. They enhanced the backend by returning IDs for comments in the add mutation and renaming type names in the schema for better clarity. On the frontend, the user implemented functionality for the counter and post modules, incorporating the use of fat arrow functions. Furthermore, the user added React Helmet for server-side rendering and meta-data integration.
Contributions:2 PRs, 50 pushes, 2 branches in 5 months
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