About

Uphar Rastogi is a highly adaptable and intelligent professional with over 6 years of experience delivering complex products at scale. He has worked across multiple domains, including Payments, Gaming, and Automation, as a backend engineer, frontend engineer, and game developer to deliver large-scale software. Uphar has worked on high DAU products in Amazon like Flights Booking, Movies Booking, and Co-Branded Credit Cards. Currently, he is working as SDE-3 in Moonfrog, building social card-based games that support DAU of 5M+ players. Uphar is a natural go-to guy in his teams and has successfully mentored multiple engineers to help them grow in their careers. Uphar has a good grasp over data structures and algorithms, with a proven track record of solving 500+ questions on LeetCode. He has excellent problem-solving skills and experience in designing large-scale distributed systems in the cloud. Uphar is also skilled in leading, mentoring, and coaching team members, project planning, estimations, architecture, and design. He is passionate about learning new technologies and reading tech books. In his previous role as SDE-3 in Moonfrog, Uphar led a cross-functional team of 4 engineers for developing different features, including game-like Friends Table using technologies like Kafka, Consumers, MongoDB, Redis, S3, GameServers, Stateful and Stateless services, and NodeJs supporting DAU of 1M. He was actively involved in hiring engineers across Moonfrog and solved multiple inefficiencies related to hiring. Uphar also increased revenue, engagement, and retention of players by 20% by designing and implementing multiple features like Collectables, Ads, etc. Before joining Moonfrog, Uphar worked in Amazon as a Software Developer, where he worked on making payments easier and accessible to everyone. He worked in Amazon Payments Co-Branded Credit Cards team as a Backend Engineer and handled the requirement gathering, integration scoping, technical contract finalization, design, and development of paperless-kyc and cashback management for Co-Branded Credit Cards. Uphar also worked in Amazon Payments Flights & Movies team as a Backend Engineer and worked through the integration with Tapzo for designing and developing a first of its kind system on Amazon to translate external orders placed on the Tapzo ecosystem into Amazon orders. Uphar has a Bachelor of Technology degree in Computer Science from Jaypee Institute of Information and Technology, completed in 2016. His tech