Uday Girhepunje

About · Pune, India

Full stack,
measured.

Full-stack engineer with over three years of experience architecting high-performance web applications, developer tooling, and enterprise AI integrations. Focused on Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, agentic workflows, frontend performance optimization, and scalable connector patterns with end-to-end delivery from RFC to production.

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Professional experience

Engineering roles

Software Development Engineer

AppDirect · Pune, India

Apr 2026 — Present

  • Building and enhancing AppDirect's Product Recommendations framework using React.js, Databricks, and GraphQL.
  • Architecting connector patterns to standardize ingestion across external APIs and internal vector-search systems.

Software Development Engineer

Devs.ai (An AppDirect Company) · Pune, India

May 2026 — Aug 2026

  • Engineered features for an enterprise-grade AI platform enabling users to access leading LLMs and build custom AI workflows.
  • Implemented spec-driven development with Next.js, TypeScript, and Temporal workflow orchestration for resilient agent execution.

Associate Software Development Engineer

AppDirect · Pune, India

Jul 2023 — Apr 2026

  • Improved Marketplace Checkout Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) by 45%, reducing checkout steps from 3 to 2 and splitting monolithic REST APIs into tiered GraphQL queries.
  • Built distributor catalog onboarding flows using React Query, Spring Boot, and Netflix DGS GraphQL framework.
  • Built PullPanda, an LLM code-review agent deployed across 26+ repositories and 5,150+ pull requests, reducing false positives by 50%.
  • Served as React and Checkout domain expert; mentored two junior engineers and interns through technical delivery.

Software Development Engineer Intern

AppDirect · Pune, India

Oct 2022 — Jun 2023

  • Built a Web3 payment connector and verified end-to-end crypto test transactions.
  • Introduced Cypress UI and API test automation adoption, increasing coverage by 42%.
  • Migrated legacy REST APIs to GraphQL for the checkout micro-frontend.

Future Ready Talent Intern

Microsoft · Pune, India

Oct 2021 — Jan 2022

  • Developed an e-commerce platform for merchandise and deployed it on Microsoft Azure cloud infrastructure.

Skills

Languages

JavaScript (ES6+) · TypeScript · Java · Python · SQL

Frontend

React · Next.js · React Native · Mantine UI · Redux · React Query · Webpack · Vite · HTML and CSS · Cypress

Backend and Cloud

Node.js · Express · Spring Boot · Netflix DGS · GraphQL · Temporal · Docker · Kubernetes · AWS · Microsoft Azure · Databricks

Emerging Tech & AI

Model Context Protocol (MCP) · Agentic Workflows · LLMs and Prompt Engineering · Vector Embeddings

Tools

Cursor AI · Git · Probot · Octokit · WebExtensions API · Jira · CI/CD

Education

B.E. in Computer Engineering (CGPA 8.9)

Modern Education Society's Wadia College of Engineering, Pune

2019 — 2023

Achievements

Two-time winner, AppDirect Global Hackathon (including 2025 AI-Powered Checkout Assistant with MCP).

Won Web Dev Heist organized by Google Developer Student Clubs.

Microsoft Azure cloud fundamentals and deployment certification.