Engineer by craft, explorer by instinct

About Me:

{{Engineering}}@ 🚀GoDaddy

Hi👋, I'm Dhruv, a software engineer who likes building things that actually work — and keep working when things get interesting. I work across the stack, with a particular love for backend engineering, distributed systems, and the little details that make software feel fast, reliable, and effortless.

At GoDaddy, I work on everything from commerce and payments to AI-powered products, taking ideas from “we should probably build this” to production.

I've also built products from 0 to 1 for startups and local businesses, so I enjoy the chaos of figuring things out, moving fast, and turning vague ideas into stuff people can actually use.

Outside of code, I have a hobby of... pretty much everything. I like picking up random interests and going down rabbit holes — from cars and airplanes to gadgets, games, travel, and whatever catches my attention next.

If you're building something cool, working on an interesting problem, or just want to geek out about software — let's talk!

Education

B.Tech Computer Science

USICT, GGSIPU

2021 - Present

9.155 GPA

XII - Science/Non-Medical

Mount Abu Public School

2020 - 2021

92.4 %

Experience

Software Development Engineer I @

GoDaddy

Led the end-to-end design and implementation of Cart, Events, and automated Waitlist systems in the v2 booking platform rewrite; designed Aurora schemas and indexing strategy based on access patterns and implemented Redis-backed distributed locking with atomic transactions to guarantee zero overbooking under high concurrency.
Architected and implemented a dynamic paywalling system across 20+ user touchpoints, introducing eligibility rules and feature flags to selectively gate premium features enabling controlled monetization experiments projecting 10% uplift in paid conversions and $275K—$500K annual revenue impact.
Integrated the Appointments platform with GoDaddy’s Unified Inbox by designing API contracts and building cross-service onboarding workflows to enable service sharing and custom offerings; drove +258% service-sharing adoption, +8% onboarding lift, and $4.3M GPV impact.
Reduced P95 latency by 2s by deduplicating 7+ redundant API calls, shifting sorting/filtering client-side, and parallelizing independent API requests to eliminate waterfall bottlenecks in critical booking flows.
Reduced checkout friction by 35% by clearly surfacing real-time pricing in checkout flows, resulting in +14% conversion, +15% AOV, and multi-million-dollar revenue impact for our customers.
Enabled cost-neutral cross-browser testing by integrating additional browsers into CI pipelines, increasing browser coverage by 50% and reducing browser-specific regressions by 25–35%.
Engineered scalable, fault-tolerant web scraper to crawl millions of websites with minimal data loss and efficient recovery, enabling reliable data collection for business decision-making, and implemented AI-based business vertical and appointment intent inference to enhance data insights

SDE Intern @

GoDaddy

Drove platform enhancements that simplified onboarding and improved cross-product discovery, resulting in an ~10% lift in new-user activation across the ecosystem.
Contributed to the Coupons feature, driving early adoption (2.8k coupons applied to 6.6k bookings in 3 weeks. Identified and fixed a critical timezone bug to ensure correct coupon applicability at product launch.
Delivered robust, production-ready code with comprehensive unit, integration and e2e tests, ensuring high reliability and low regression.
Improved system reliability by adding real-time end-to-end monitoring, enabling early outage detection, reducing incident detection from days/hours to minutes, and improving on-call effectiveness.
Identified and resolved critical UI bugs that were causing friction and significant drop-offs for ~40% of users, leading to a notable boost in mobile responsiveness, cross-browser compatibility, and overall user satisfaction across diverse devices.
Migrated the test pipeline from on-prem infrastructure to GitHub Actions, reducing execution time by 6× resulting in faster CI/CD cycles and lower operational costs.

SDE Intern @

Rise Higher Education

Built the company’s core product within 6 months, single-handedly developing both the frontend and backend, driving rapid product launch, business visibility and market entry.
Designed and developed secure, high-performance APIs with ExpressJS and MongoDB for authentication and data handling ensuring availability and reliability.
Developed a user-friendly React application, delivering smooth navigation, intuitive interfaces, and optimal performance for an enhanced user experience.
Engineered a virtual counsellor in three.js with seamless lip-sync to audio playback, achieving a realistic virtual avatar effect.
Conducted in-depth research to optimize the development process, adopting new technologies and utilized Microsoft Azure to manage deployments and facilitate efficient user file management.
Mentored other interns fostering a collaborative learning environment.

SFS Lead @

SDC USICT

Maintained and upheld the Student Feedback System (SFS): http://ipu.ac.in/sfs_main.php, facilitating annual feedback for university teachers.
Being SFS lead, I improved the student-feedback system’s scalability and security and reduced loading time by 30% through optimizations and necessary bug fixes.
Led the SFS team, driving significant progress in developing and maintaining the student feedback system.
Administered a large SQL-based database housing feedback from 5000+ students for 500+ university teachers.

Full Stack Developer @

InfoXpression USICT

Created multiple intuitive and reusable react components for InfoXpression's website (The annual tech fest of GGSIPU, New Delhi).
Independently developed a secure backend system for event registration, drawing inspiration from Devfolio.
Implemented robust authentication mechanisms and participant team management features within the backend system, ensuring a smooth registration process.

Learn Student Ambassador @

Microsoft

For the community, I automated the tiresome process of creating and emailing event certificates by fabricating a robust Node.js script.
The program extracts data from an Excel file and generates and emails certificates in bulk quickly and accurately, eliminating the need for manual entry.

Open Source Mentor @

GDSC, USICT

I conducted events and workshops on Git, GitHub, and Open Source.
Organized and led a successful Hacktoberfest'22 campaign, guiding numerous students to fulfill their contributions.

Media Head @

Srijan Science Club, GGSIPU

Created engaging multimedia content including videos, graphics, and written pieces to promote club events, initiatives, and achievements across various platforms.
Managed the club's social media accounts by regularly updating content, responding to inquiries, and fostering online engagement with members and the broader university community.

DSA Wrapped

Let's commit together to solving at least one DSA problem every day, challenging our minds and strengthening our problem-solving skills. With consistent effort, we'll not only master data structures and algorithms but also cultivate a disciplined and growth-oriented mindset.

Problems :

GeeksForGeeks

1134

Leetcode

1173

Other Platforms

141

Problem of The Day Streak

1080/1095 days

Projects

GeoSeg

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PythonDeep LearningComputer VisionSemantic Segmentation

End-to-end deep learning pipeline for semantic segmentation of buildings from high-resolution satellite and drone imagery, covering GeoTIFF/GeoJSON preprocessing to model evaluation.

SkillForge

Agentic AISkill RoutingAi-sdkNext.js

Advanced, full-stack AI workspace with an autonomous skill routing engine, live website generation, and instant subdomain publishing.

Snake and Ladders

GoReactWebSocketsRedisMongoDBGoogle OAuth

Real-time multiplayer Snakes & Ladders game featuring secure authentication, scalable stateless backend architecture, and live chat, enabling players to create, join, and interact within games.

QuantWire

C++WebSocketsTrading

High-performance C++ trading platform with ultra-low latency order execution, real-time market data ingestion, and a WebSocket server streaming live order book updates via the Deribit API.

A* Pathfinding

Next.jsTypeScriptAlgorithmsShortest Path

This project brings the A* algorithm to life through visual simulations, helping you see how it finds the shortest path in a graph or grid.

Smoothy

TensorFlowCNNKerasShape Regularization

Smoothy is a comprehensive pipeline designed for shape classification, regularization, symmetry detection, and curve completion. It is applied in real-world scenarios to recognize and transform hand-drawn shapes into precise geometric forms, even completing missing segments.

Hobbies

Driving

Music

Gaming

Travelling

Table Tennis

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