Ujjwal Thaakar
Chief Executive Officer at Bharosa Technoserve Private Limited
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
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Top SchoolUjjwal Thaakar is a seasoned software leader and founder with 13 years of experience building production web applications and data systems, now leading a customer-first personal finance platform as CEO. He combines hands-on engineering in Ruby, Clojure(Script) and system-level work—maintaining the popular node_pcap libpcap bindings—to deliver robust back-end solutions and real-time knowledge graphs (notably for Disney India). Comfortable moving between product, hiring and technical leadership, he has built and mentored top-tier engineering teams and shipped autonomous semantic systems. Unusually, he taught himself electronics and industrial design to build a 10x cheaper, battery-powered PCR machine from scratch, reflecting rare cross-disciplinary grit and rapid prototyping ability. Based in Mumbai, he brings entrepreneurial drive, deep Bitcoin technical interest, and a knack for turning complex technical concepts into practical, deployable products.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Information Technology, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Information Technology at Nirma University, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, IndiaHigh School, 9th to 12th, High School, 9th to 12th at St. Anne's School
English, Hindi, Gujarati
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Github Skills (9)
c-language10
pcap10
cprogramming-language10
packet-capture10
libpcap10
routes9
javascript9
nodejs8
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
node-pcap/node_pcap
Feb 2013 - May 2014
libpcap bindings for node
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:37 commits, 3 comments, 1 issue in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Ujjwal primarily worked on the `node-pcap/node_pcap` project, implementing and modifying core functionalities for packet capture using libpcap bindings. They added features related to decoding network packet types, including Linux SLL and Ethernet. The contributions included changes to the C++ binding code, adjustments to the JavaScript interface, and updating the build configurations to include libpcap. These changes reflect an effort to improve the library's ability to handle different network packet formats and establish the project as a functional pcap library.
packet-capturesnifferlibpcapnodejspacket
bharosaclub/casparser
Nov 2021 - Nov 2022
Parser for Consolidated Account Statements (CAS) generated from CAMS/Karvy/Kfintech
Contributions:1 push, 1 comment in 1 year
consolidatedkarvyconsolidated-account-statementsaccountcams
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