About

Ronak Jain is a highly skilled Senior Software Engineer at Uber with over 6 years of experience in designing and developing large distributed systems. He has extensive expertise in CAP, high-availability, leader-election (consensus), service discovery, routing, circuit breaking, and tracing. Ronak is the owner and developer of a payments transaction processing system that handles high throughput and only-once processing guarantee using Go, Java, gRPC, Kafka, Redis, Postgres (sharded), Consul, Kubernetes, Istio, Envoy, and other technologies. Ronak has a deep understanding of Kafka, Kubernetes, Istio, and regularly contributes to open source projects. He recently contributed to Istio-pilot with performance and API fixes. His Github profile is a testament to his passion for software engineering. Before joining Uber, Ronak worked as a Lead Software Engineer and Product Engineer at Gojek, where he was a core member of the Payments team (GoPay). He designed and developed low latency and high throughput microservices for payment processing across all geographies, with a peak throughput of 50k RPM. He also developed a highly resilient transaction pipeline that handles more than 7 million payments per day. Ronak owned and implemented internal gRPC Go wrapper for service-discovery, connection-pooling for multi-dc, circuit-breaker, tracing, and more. Ronak holds a Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) degree in Computer Science from cmr institute of technology and completed his Pre-university education from sri bhagawan mahaveer jain college. He is proficient in Go, Java, Postgres, Redis, Kafka, Consul, Kubernetes, Istio, Envoy, Jaeger, and other technologies. Overall, Ronak is a talented and experienced software engineer with a passion for designing and developing large distributed systems. His expertise in various technologies and his contributions to open source make him a valuable asset to any team.