Ujjwal Agrawal

Chief Technology Officer @ GimBooks

About

I’m a technology leader and entrepreneur with 8.5+ years of experience building and scaling digital products—focused on creating real-world impact through strong engineering and thoughtful product execution. I currently serve as the Co-founder & CTO at GimBooks.com and CodeNicely.in, where I lead product engineering, architecture, and team building. My work involves shaping the technical vision, driving scalable execution, and ensuring engineering remains tightly aligned with business outcomes. Over the years, I’ve had the opportunity to collaborate closely with leadership teams across diverse businesses, helping translate strategy into execution—by building robust platforms, enabling faster delivery, and strengthening technology as a growth function. I’m also an active volunteer at AIboomi (SaaSBoomi’s AI initiative), and I strongly resonate with the broader SaaSBoomi mission of building India into a product nation. I enjoy contributing to the ecosystem and supporting teams in adopting modern product and AI thinking. Specialties: Product Engineering • SaaS • Engineering Leadership • System Architecture • Cloud (AWS/GCP) • Startups • Mobile & Web Development • AI & GenAI We are always looking for passionate developers (Interns, Full-time Engineers). Apply by sending your resume to ujjwal@gimbooks.com Note for sales folks and recruiters: I do not respond to sales related messages on LinkedIn. Kindly avoid sending such messages. Especially people selling remote engineers, similar services. Email - ujjwal@codenicely.in | ujjwal@gimbooks.com

Country

India

City

Raipur

Industry

Computer Software

Skill

Django , Leadership, Generative AI, OpenAI Products, Prompt Engineering, Product Management, Android Development, Python, C, Start-ups, Consulting, Algorithms, Data Structures, Mobile Devices, User Interface Design, Kotlin, Django, Java, Android, React Native

Experience

Chief Technology Officer

GimBooks

2020-6 - Present · 6 yrs 3 mos

GimBooks is a super-app for MSMEs in India. It helps users easily manage their Invoicing, Accounting, Inventory, Banking and GSTR, TDS Filing. We are backed by Y-Combinator, Accelerated by Google for Startups and were also among the winners of Atma Nirbhar Bharat Challenge in the Business category.

Founding Team Member

GimBooks

2017-10 - Present · 8 yrs 11 mos

Co-Founder

CodeNicely

2017-5 - Present · 9 yrs 4 mos

Raipur, Chattisgarh, India

I lead the technical development of the projects at CodeNicely. So far we have helped 50+ startups by building and maintaining their digital products. Many of them are funded through our MVP in accelerators like Y-Combinator, Google for Startups and by other well-known VC firms. Currently I have taken over the role of Co-founder and CTO at GimBooks.

Technical Lead

Vahak

2019-6 - 2020-5 · 1 yr

Closely worked with the Vahak Founders for the technical development (Android app and Back-end) of the initial MVP and the initial few iterations of the Vahak App to get first 50,000 users, 500+ daily enquiries.

Software Development Engineer II

Walmart Global Tech India

2019-7 - 2020-2 · 8 mos

Bengaluru Area, India

Google Summer of code 2019 Student Developer

Wikimedia Foundation

2019-5 - 2019-8 · 4 mos

Remote

I started Wikiedu Dashboard Android App as an alternate client for wikiedu.org . I lead the development and maintainance of the project even after my Internship. App is made fully in kotlin + MVVM and we are using Koin for DI.

Google Summer of Code 2018 Student Developer

Wikimedia Foundation

2018-5 - 2018-8 · 4 mos

Remote

During Google Summer of Code'18 I worked on implementing browse feature in Wikimedia Commons Android App. Wikimedia Commons is a collection of free usable images and media files.