Ujjwal Ojha
Senior Software Engineer at Ubank
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolUjjwal Ojha is a product-minded senior software engineer with 12 years’ experience designing pragmatic, maintainable distributed systems and microservices for high-traffic products. Based in Sydney, he has led architecture, migrations and observability improvements at companies like Shippit, THE ICONIC and Ubank, and has a track record of delivering low-downtime migrations and revenue-driving features. He pairs a long-term systems vision with a pragmatic approach—knowing when to start monolithic boundaries and when to evolve into microservices—to balance theoretical elegance with real-world effectiveness. An empathetic collaborator who grew into a people-focused leader, he also contributes to established open-source projects (Zend Framework, Sylius) where he emphasizes clarity, docs and small but impactful fixes.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Orchid International CollegeGreenwich Academy
English, Nepali
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Github Skills (24)
ecommerce10
databases10
user-authentication10
zend-framework10
authentication10
php10
symfony10
symfony-ux10
database10
sql9
documentation9
querying9
testing7
code-standards7
coding-style7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
ZF-Commons/ZfcUser
Mar 2014 - Nov 2014
A generic user registration and authentication module for ZF2. Supports Zend\Db and Doctrine2. (Formerly EdpUser)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:21 commits, 6 comments in 8 months
Contributions summary:Ujjwal primarily focused on refining the database storage and authentication logic within the ZfcUser module, as evidenced by the code changes in Db.php. Their contributions addressed issues where user identity wasn't correctly resolved, storage wasn't correctly handled, and refined various aspects of authentication storage. They also made minor adjustments to improve the code base.
zendzf2phpauthenticationregistration
zendframework/zendframework
Dec 2013 - Mar 2015
Official Zend Framework repository
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:48 commits, 1 PR, 11 comments in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Ujjwal primarily contributed to the Zend Framework, focusing on the database and validator components. Their work included enhancing the `In` predicate for SQL queries, refactoring and updating code related to array identifiers, and fixing alignment and code style issues. The user also addressed various typo and code style fixes across multiple files.
zendzend-frameworkphpframeworkmodular
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