Jalp Bhatt
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Niranjan kumar G U
Jalp and me worked together were in the same team in like family. He is my tech lead there and helped me in understanding the product from top to bottom. He is also one of the coolest person to work with and provides you help wherever and whenever he can. One of the genuine team mate which ever team will be eager to have.
Yogesh Kumar
Jalp is hardworking and technically sound. He has good exposure on android technology. He is ambitious person and a good learner.
Niranjan kumar G U
Jalp and me worked together were in the same team in like family. He is my tech lead there and helped me in understanding the product from top to bottom. He is also one of the coolest person to work with and provides you help wherever and whenever he can. One of the genuine team mate which ever team will be eager to have.
Yogesh Kumar
Jalp is hardworking and technically sound. He has good exposure on android technology. He is ambitious person and a good learner.
Niranjan kumar G U
Jalp and me worked together were in the same team in like family. He is my tech lead there and helped me in understanding the product from top to bottom. He is also one of the coolest person to work with and provides you help wherever and whenever he can. One of the genuine team mate which ever team will be eager to have.
Yogesh Kumar
Jalp is hardworking and technically sound. He has good exposure on android technology. He is ambitious person and a good learner.
Niranjan kumar G U
Jalp and me worked together were in the same team in like family. He is my tech lead there and helped me in understanding the product from top to bottom. He is also one of the coolest person to work with and provides you help wherever and whenever he can. One of the genuine team mate which ever team will be eager to have.
Yogesh Kumar
Jalp is hardworking and technically sound. He has good exposure on android technology. He is ambitious person and a good learner.
Credentials
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Public Speaking Foundations
LinkedInJun, 2020- Nov, 2024 -
Complete React Web Developer Course With Redux
UdemyMar, 2018- Nov, 2024 -
Oracle Certified Professional Java Programmer (OCPJP)
OracleDec, 2013- Nov, 2024 -
Agile Methods in Outsourced Projects
-Mar, 2013- Nov, 2024
Experience
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Like Family
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Australia
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Individual and Family Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Head of Technology
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Jun 2021 - Present
I have got an opportunity to be in the leadership team due to recent reorg at Like Family along side with co-founders and other cross-functional heads. I am solely focused on driving the technical leadership, defining the engineering metrics and setup the platform for scale, cross-functional collaboration to convert business derivatives into technical solutions.Key Responsibilities:* Lead engineering team (Web & Mobile) at onsite/remote* Define engineering metrics (scalability, security, performance & code quality)* Collaborate with HoP to define technical delivery (Backlog grooming, Sprint Planning), tech debt mitigation and provide technical solutions for business requirements* Help CTPO to define technical roadmaps, tech discovery, up to date with tech direction and decisions* Help stake-holders to forecast in technical feasibility, third-party integrations and plan to achieve business objectives via technical deliveryLeadership:* Established engineering culture where I have defined org wide code standards (SOLID & Design Principles), how to do efficient PR reviews, Devs on-boarding plan and their success framework* Hiring for onsite and offshore DEVs - Interview, Offer discussion & negotiations* 1:1s, define KPIs and performance reviews (half yearly)* Help co-founders to hire key people like CTPO & Senior Devs who can create meaningful impact for orgTechnical Hands On:* Revamped entire architecture for the platform on GCP (Roles & Permissions, Security, Utilising cloud services) * Docker swarm managements & CI/CD deployments* Build API Gateway in Node from scratch * Architect solution for integrations - Stripe, OneSignal, Xero, HighTouch, Segment etc* Architect solution for multiple project - CMS migration (prismic.io), authentication (JWT with Auth0), monolith to REST based micro service transformations Awards: * Emerging tech leader of the year - 2021* Most valuable player of the team* Part of winning team for hackathon
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Principle Engineer
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Mar 2021 - May 2021
Like Family is a scale-up platform which provide services to needy in social impact space (Disability, Aged/Home Care, Loneliness & Companionship) and connect users with better care providers within the platform.As a principle engineer, I have joined this scale up to mature their engineering function in terms of scalability, performance and establish engineering culture to setup their success.Impact:* Redefine their entire carer search engine with new algorithm types to provide better match making. Provided end to solution design and implementation which increase platform customer acquisition & retention by 30% and help to grow month on month GMV by $100K* Setup the onboarding process and 3 months (30-60-90 days) workflow for new joiners* Promote a documentation culture and lead by example. i.e. Reduced local dev environment setup time to 3 days compare to 2 weeks* Actively involved in defining technical roadmaps and tech debt mitigation via pragmatic approach* Microservice API performance - (reduce response time to <= 3s compare to avg. 14-20s)* Database schema improvements to reduce data corruption* Managing all GCP cloud architecture (Database, Scheduler, Cloud functions, VMs etc)* Maintenance of legacy cloud platform - HerokuTech Stack:* Frontend (React, RoR, Storybook, Material UI, Prismic.io)* Backend (Rust, RoR, Node, Knex, Objection, Joi, Swagger, Jwt.io)* REST Microservices & Even Driven Architecture (NATs)* Central Cache (Redis, MemCached)* Database (PostgresSQL)* Mobile Development (React Native, Expo)* DevOps (GCP, Heroku, Docker, Docker Swarm)* Testing framework (Jest, Enzyme, Chai, Mocha)Awards:* Back to back MVP of the month for my technical contributions
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Mirus Australia
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Australia
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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1 - 100 Employee
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Lead Full Stack Engineer | Technical Lead | Solution Architect
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Apr 2019 - Mar 2021
Joined as a Lead Engineer to scale the rostering platform Mirus to support age care facilities to operate efficiently in their daily operations. Key Highlights: * Delivered $1M project for a key player in Aged/Home care space which saved a $20k AUD worth of operational cost. Architected whole module end to end (UI, Backend, DB & Deployments) * Architect a solution of reusable PDF & CSV generation reporting library in Node * Played a key technical role in client integrations for Payroll, Awards, Onboarding & Product configurations * Lead a rewrite of api migration project from monolith to micro-service and integration back to the web app. Highly involved in Award interpretation api migration project too. * Build various command line (CLI) tools to support cross-functional teams (i.e. Tech & Product Support) which enhance developer productivity by 40% and reduce the data corruption by 20%. * Established best engineering practices like SLAs, Monitoring and run Agile Kanban ceremonies * Closely worked with PO and DOE to plan tech feature roadmap, mitigation of tech debt & enhancement of new technologies * Involved in performance review and KPI planning for the team * Experience of closely working with executive team like CEO, CFO & Director of Engineering Tech Stack: * Frontend (React, Vue, Websocket, Webpack, AntD, Responsive UI) * Backend (Node/Express, Microservice and Event Driven Architecture) * Database (PostgresSQL deployed on AWS RDS) * Mobile Development (React Native) * DevOps (AWS - EC2, RDS, S3, Docker) * Testing (Jest, Enzyme, Chai, Mocha)
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Westpac
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Australia
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Banking
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700 & Above Employee
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Senior Full Stack Engineer
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Jul 2018 - Apr 2019
Played a senior engineer role in Westpac Corporate Lending Portal development for their customers. This is full hands on role with tech mentorship & architecture design by collaborating with cross-functions teams like UI/UX, SAs, BAs and POs & QAs. Key Highlights: * Build lending dashboard component in TDD way * Design Microservice APIs in Node/Express by utilising Swagger * Solution design for UI components with web accessibility standards (W3C) and design systems * Offshore team management, documentation, on-boarding & mentoring Tech Stack: - Frontend (React with Redux, ES8, Style Components, Normalizr, Reselect, Bootstrap, Webpack etc) - Backend (Node/Express) - Testing Framework (TDD with Jest with Enzyme, Chai and Mocha) - Database (PostgresSQL) - DevOps (AWS, Bamboo)
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Infosys
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India
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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700 & Above Employee
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Technical Lead | Solution Architect
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Apr 2015 - Mar 2019
Being an Engineering leader, worked across Tier 3 Banks (Personal, Private and Investment Banking), Fintech Unicorns in digital payments space (Top 5) and No.1 Aussie Telco projects across the APAC region as a part of the digital experience (DX) unit in BFS/Fin-Tech, Telco & Networking domains. Key Highlights: * Lead a squad of 5-10 people in a large scale Tier-3 investment banking projects where I have involved in a architecture design & solutions, stack-holder management for senior PMs/DMs and team mentoring with hands on contributions * Single handedly deliver migration project for top digital payments leader which saves them $30K SGD per year and ended up generating more revenue for my org by getting few more project in similar space * Prepared 15+ RFPs (Request for proposals) for Tier-3 private & investment banks * Leadership experience by collaborating with SAs, SPMs & DMs * Active member of Infosys initiatives - zero distance(ZD) & design thinking (DT) to deliver best economical solutions in terms of re-usability * Interviewed 50+ candidates Tech Stack Involved: - Javascripts (React, Angular, Node/Express, Responsive mobile/web, D3.js, Material UI, Styled Components, ES6/8, Loadash etc) - Design Patterns, SOLID principles & Micro service and Event Driven Architecture - Java (Kotlin, Core Java 6/8, Springboot) - Mobile (Android, Ionic) - Tools (Atlassian suite, Webex, Draw.io, VS Code/IJ/WS) - Test Frameworks (Jest/Enzyme, Mocha, Chai etc) - DevOps (Git, Bitbucket, Bamboo, Jenkins) - Agile practices (Scrum, Kanban & XP) Awards & Recognitions: * Nominated for AFE (Award for excellence) in 2016 - Individual Technical Champion Category - One of the most prestigious award of Infosys * Rising star & insta awards for my contribution in various projects
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Matrix Comsec
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India
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Appliances, Electrical, and Electronics Manufacturing
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500 - 600 Employee
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Technical Lead | Mobile Application Development
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Aug 2014 - Mar 2015
I have been promoted as Tech Lead based on the work done as a senior mobile developer to lead and deliver key mobile apps.Key Achievements:* Introduced first ever Agile - Scrum methodology practice to showcase the benefit’s. Leadership extremely happy to see the quick updates and adaptability of frequent changes requested by the business. Improved mobile tech team process efficiency by 50% compare to waterfall way of working. * Developer Tools & Productivity - Build common mobile component library (used in every[3+] apps) - Boosted developer productivity by 30%* Stack-holder management, Part of the Hiring committee (Interviewed 30+ candidates)* Introduce framework for team development & performance review* Shipped 3 enterprise apps in span of a year & achieved the milestone of 100k+ download* Technical mentorship to the team* Security and App release management in play store
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Senior Application Developer
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May 2014 - Jul 2014
I have worked as a senior mobile application developer in security domain. The role involves of end to end feature development that supports viewing video streams of an Analog or IP camera connected to any Matrix Surveillance System such as DVR, NVR or a Hybrid DVR; over a mobile supporting Wi-Fi / GPRS / 3G network connectivity.Key Achievements:* Implemented android custom component toolkit library - Multiple layouts Live View, Playback bar* JNI two way communication protocol implementation in C++* Video codec (encoder/decode) implementation - H.264/H.265, MJPEG, MPEG4* Device support for TV & Mobiles
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US Based Software Company
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Software Development
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1 - 100 Employee
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Mobile Application Developer | Android | Cross Platforms
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Nov 2011 - May 2014
Started my professional career with mobile application development working with native platforms like Android with Java. Over the period of time, also worked with cross-platforms framework like PhoneGap, Iconic and jQuery Mobile to ship enterprise mobile apps for clients. Key Achievements: * Grown as a expert mobile developer, promoted to senior engineer and ended up handling the team of 3/4 junior engineers during my tenure * Achieved SCJP Java 6 Certification with 100% score * Shipped 5+ enterprise level apps from which few of them nominated as Top 150 Android apps of the year 2012/13 * Shipped 30+ native Android mobile apps on Google Play Store for various clients (i.e US, Europe & India)
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IGATE
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Information Technology & Services
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700 & Above Employee
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Software Engineer Intern
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Jan 2011 - Jun 2011
This is final year internship where I have developed secure credit card compliance scanning tool which provide PCI DSS for credit card holders. It also verify the authenticity of it's credit card number of various provider types like Visa, Mastercard, Amex etc. Key Highlights: * Worked with read production data - scale of 1 TB credit card records * Implemented message broker technology with SQL store procedure to achieve PCI DSS compliance * Developed GUI forms using C# .Net Framework 3.5 * 3 Tier architecture implementation Recognition: * Secured 1st place out to top 5 intern teams and nominated for permanent hiring position as Software Engineer after graduation
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Education
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2007 - 2011
Govt. Engg. College, Rajkot
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Engineering
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