A Software Engineer (individual contributor) with 8+ years of experience with a background in full-stack development and big data solutions. Passionate in developing great product offerings with great people, and great teams. Interested in systems engineering, software development, UI/UX and product management.

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• LinkedIn: /in/jaygandhi7/
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• Senior Software Engineer at ServiceNow - (From January 2019)

  • Collaborated with multiple teams across the company.
  • Tech Stack: Javascript (ES5, ES6), SCSS, Now UI Web Component Framework(Seismic), ServiceNow Platform
  • Developed Gantt/Grid Web Component using Now UI Framework (Seismic).
    • With Row virtualization and reusable modular code, Scaled-up Grid rendering with 7000 rows.
  • Developed NodeMap (Relationship Map) Web Component using D3.js and Now UI Framework (Seismic).
  • Developed Work Planner & Project workspace.
  • Revamped Timesheet Service Portal. (35% reduction in customer incidents from the previous release)
  • Security Champion, Part of Performance and Accessibility Guild.

• Full Stack Developer at Report Garden - (June 2017 to January 2019)

  • Worked on various Products across the company.
  • ReportGarden
    • Tech Stack: Ruby On Rails with React, Sidekiq with Redis, Multiple Postgres databases, python
    • Optimized Webpack builds and created customized pop-up forms for third-party websites for a feature. (Reduced deployment time to 20 min from 35 min.)
    • Built solution and framework with the help of Apache Spark with PySpark on EMR, various AWS services like Athena, Fargate, SES & Lambda for integration. (reduced the cost of integration by 80%)
  • Helium
    • Tech Stack: Java, Various AWS services like lambda, ECS, SQS, Fargate, etc.
    • Created a framework called drone which is background scheduled jobs in java which is based on AWS SQS.
    • Integrated various third-party APIs which give marketing data for ReportGarden. Maintained and Updated various integrations.
  • TribeLocal
    • Tech Stack: Java, AWS lambda, Ruby On Rails with React, Sidekiq with Redis, CircleCi
    • Created framework on Java (Scrapie) using JSoup to scrape various business directories which get details of the business. (90% reduction in total developer hours to integrate one directory)
    • Built PDF Report generation solution using chrome headless and AWS Lambda which resulted in scale and reliability than the PhantomJS solution.

• Lead Developer at Discover Dollar - (December 2015 to June 2017)

  • Tech Stack: Node.js with express.js, MariaDB/MySQL and MongoDB, AngularJS, R, Apache Spark with PySpark, Amazon Web Services & Azure.
  • ✨Started as one of the earliest employees as an Associate Developer.✨
  • End-to-end responsibilities, Deployment to Azure VM machine/ AWS EC2s, Monitoring, Ownership of the code, managing databases, analyzing client requirements & coordinating with data scientists.
  • Recovered more than $1 million per quarter for the first client.
  • Worked on huge datasets with R, Python & later PySpark.
  • Managed Servers on Azure VM Machine for Apache Spark standalone cluster and Apache Zeppelin.
  • Check out the LinkedIn recommendation by Subu Rao (CEO & Founder of Discover Dollar).