About

Afzal Lakdawala is a Senior Consultant with over 15 years of experience in software development. He has worked with a range of technologies and is skilled in Ruby on Rails, javascript, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, HTML, and CSS. He is currently learning React-native for iOS. Afzal has a passion for clean code and continuously improving his skills. He has worked with amazing teams and enjoys getting his hands dirty and learning as many different skills as possible. In terms of server-side languages, Afzal is proficient in Ruby (Ruby on Rails) and PHP (CodeIgniter). He is also experienced in front-end development with technologies like Javascript/jQuery, Bootstrap, CSS, HAML/ERB/SLIM, HTML, AngularJS, D3Js, and UnderscoreJs. Afzal has also worked with various databases such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MongoDB. He is skilled in caching technologies such as Redis and Memcached. He is also proficient in analytics and system monitoring tools like Elasticsearch and Google Analytics. In terms of DevOps, Afzal has experience with general system administration on Ubuntu Precise/Trusty/Xenial. He has worked with cloud platforms like AWS (EC2, RDS, S3, CloudFront, etc.), Digital Ocean, Rackspace, Hostgator, and Godaddy. Afzal has experience with transactional email and email marketing tools like Mandrill API and MailChimp. He is also proficient in version control with Git and payment gateways like Razorpay, CCavenue, Paypal, and 2checkout. Currently, Afzal is working as a Data Experience Developer Manager Level 3 at Times Internet. Prior to this, he worked as a Senior Technical Consultant at Self Employed and Senior Consultant Technical Lead at WeInvest. He holds a degree in Business/Commerce from Burhani College of Commerce & Arts Nesbit Road Opp.St.Marys High School Mumbai 400 010. Overall, Afzal is a seasoned software developer with a broad range of skills and experience in various technologies.