• Passionate Technologist & Leader with 18+ years of experience in all phases of the software development. • I like to deliver innovative solutions to help customers in digitization journey. • Experienced Working in technologies like NLP, Data Engineering, Microservices, Cloud Engineering. • Started various initiatives like Code Review Committee, Architecture Review Board to standardize the whole software development practices. • As a leader of CoE for Platform Engineering built and designed standard development practices starting from Recruitment Framework to Reskilling, cross skilling and upskilling. • Carries wide experience of Managing, Mentored team with 30+ direct members and 180+ indirect members • AWS Community Builder - Serverless Chapter since 2022 • Published Author of various thought leaderships like: 1. APN Blog: Streamlining Software Development with Data-Driven Insights 2. APN Blog: Data De-Identification in Healthcare 3. APN Blog: Solving the Challenge of Customer Verification 4. Edge Computing 5. Top cloud migration and adoption 6. Optimizing Amazon S3 for Large-Scale Operations
EXPERIENCE Practice Head | Senior Architect – Labs & Innovation and Platform Engineering Apexon (FKA Infostretch Corporation) April 2021 – January 2024, Ahmedabad, India • GTM: Define Go To Market strategies. Built Labs as a Service offering and other modern application development related offerings. • Strategic Planning: Develop and implement a strategic plan to achieve revenue growths for the platform engineering practice that aligns with the organization's business objectives. • Architecture: Started, defined and leading Architecture Review Board (ARB) and Code Review Committee (CRC) that helped stabilized large scale projects. • Innovation: Lead from front in the Ideate, Design and Develop out of the box yet client-centric solutions as Accelerators that helps in Pre-Sales. During my tenure I helped to build 2 solutions for AWS Market Place as well. • Team Management: Manage and mentor 30+ team of engineers and other professionals in the platform engineering practice. • Stakeholder Management: Build and manage client relationships to influence revenues and provide support to delivery teams when required. • Recruitment Support: Conceptualised and Streamlined the hiring process by defining interview frameworks and profile screening processes. • Pre-sales Support: Helping in Pre-sales by doing architecture solutions, estimations and providing guidance to win RFPs.
Vice President - Sr. Software Architect
JPMorgan Chase & Co. August 2020 - April 2021, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom • Software Architecture Design: Design the software architecture for risk management applications and systems. Designed and implemented a common data ingestion and data reporting solution for Risk Management department. • Technology Evaluation: Evaluated technologies, performed architecture patterns, and designed a cloud-native application that migrated from an on-premises data centre to AWS, for the Risk Management department. • Technical Leadership: Led the development of 5 enterprise-scale software applications and systems, including the design of an enterprise-wide distributed system that processed millions of transactions per day, while maintaining a 99.9% system uptime. • Risk Management: Increased performance up to 25x, reduced latency time from minutes to seconds, and generated cost savings up to 48%.
Solution Architect Infostretch Corporation (Now Known As Apexon) January 2020 - July 2020, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India • Software Architecture Design: Design software architecture for applications and systems, align with industry best practices. Ideate, Designed and Architected Apexon COMPSS. • Technical Leadership: Provide technical leadership and guidance to development team to ensure software design and implementation aligns with the architecture vision and standards. • Collaboration and Communication: Collaborated with project managers and developers to ensure the delivery of high-quality software products and to align software architecture with the overall business strategy. • Code Reviews: Performed Code Reviews for front and backend, resulting in improved code quality, reduced bugs, and improved developer communication.
Principal Java Developer
Mobiquity Softech Pvt. Ltd. April 2017 - December 2019, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India • Application Development: Increase the company’s revenue by 20% by designing and developing Web and Mobile applications during my tenure • Technical Leadership: Provided technical leadership and guidance to development teams to ensure software design and implementation aligns with the architecture vision and standards, resulting in a 100% increase in the number of projects completed on time, and a 7% reduction in late projects. • Evaluated various technologies for our team to ensure that we stay ahead with forefront of Java technology advancements. • Code Review and Quality Control: Ensured that the code written by other developers meets quality standards and adheres to industry best practices. Achieved 90%+ code coverage with 0 code quality bugs in Sonar.
Open-Source Software Consultant and Co-Founder
StackPath Technologies LLP December 2011 - March 2017, Vadodara, Gujarat, India • Software Development: Develop software that meets the organization's business requirements and aligns with industry best practices. • Development Advocacy: Advocate for the adoption of open-source software development within the organization and in the broader technology community to various customers. • Strategic Planning: Develop and implement a strategic plan for the organization's use of open-source software, ensuring that it aligns with the overall business strategy. • Technical Leadership: Provide technical leadership and guidance to development teams to ensure open-source software design and implementation aligns with the architecture vision and standards. • Sales and Pre-sales support: Develop content, such as customer case studies, to support sales opportunities and actively participate in customer-facing pre-sales activities.
Sr. Software Developer
Cignex Datamatics Technologies October 2010 - December 2011, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India • Developed customer-facing web applications using Liferay, Java, J2EE, Spring, Spring MVC, JavaScript, and HTML/CSS, ensuring reliable, fast, and secure application delivery. • Optimized client (Posadas) software system performance by 32%, increasing client satisfaction with faster response times and better user experience.
Software Engineer Cybage Software April 2010 - October 2010, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India
Software Engineer Rishabh Software Pvt. Ltd. November 2007 - March 2010, Vadodara, Gujarat, India
Software Engineer eProcurement Technologies Pvt. Ltd. August 2006 - November 2007, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India EDUCATION Bachelor Of Engineering - Information Technology Gujarat University • 2006 • First Class
Higher Secondary School - Science Stream
Gujarat Secondary Education Board, Gujarat • Vadodara, Gujarat, India • 20023 • 63% in PCBM
SSC Gujarat State Education Board • Vadodara, Gujarat, India • 2000 • 83.71%
CERTIFICATIONS AWS Certified Solution Architect Professional
AWS Certified Well Architected Review Proficient
AWARDS & ACHIEVEMENTS
• Best Mentor Award, Best Team Award and Multiple Pat on Back, Made My Day Awards @Apexon (FKA Infostretch) • Secured winning positions at various Hackathons • Many Awards in Sports and Curricular Activities during academics
PERSONAL NOTE • As an individual, I am loyal, honest, smart, hard worker, techno enthusiastic, and a witty person who makes sure work and fun together. • For reference, you can reach out to my linked in contacts, or I can present as and when requested.
