About

Anand Vaidya is an accomplished engineering leader at Check Point, India, with a keen focus on building a vibrant team. Currently, he is exploring new possibilities and managing the complete hiring pipeline to ensure the team's success. With over 16 years of solid experience in design and development of various products and technologies, Anand is a product architect who believes in taking ownership of the product than just developing it. An agile-minded developer with the ability to learn on the job, Anand is a leader who believes in making hands dirty to get results. He is a hard worker passionate about innovation and hates stereotype jobs. Anand has proven deliveries of complex projects with beginner teams in lesser time and is an excellent mentor. He is a multi-tasker who quickly adapts to new environments, a strong team player, sincere, and always keen to meet targets. Anand has strong experience in CI/CD and market-leading DevOps/cloud technologies and is innovating micro-branding and precision marketing. He has a reputation of over 1k on StackOverflow, demonstrating his expertise in the field. Currently, Anand is the Group Manager at Check Point Software Technologies Ltd, responsible for deliveries and growth of CloudGuard RnD team in Pune. In his previous roles, he was a consulting Java/cloud developer, architect, and mentor. Anand has set up teams and processes for quality and has a keen focus on quality. Anand's past companies include Check Point Software Technologies Ltd, where he was the Engineering Lead responsible for setting up a new RnD team in Pune, and Freelance, where he was a software developer on a stiff learning curve of Spring, Python, ML, cloud, serverless, and many other things. He was actively mentoring freshers and freelancing on a disruptive way of training with crio.do. Anand holds a BE in Computer Science & Engineering from Govt College Of Engg, Aurangabad, a Diploma in Computer Engineering from Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Technological University, and an SSC from Phatak Highschool, Ratnagiri, with a field of study in English. Anand's tech stack includes Senior Software Engineer, CI/CD, DevOps, Python, Java, Software Engineer, ML, and Spring. With his relevant experience of 16.61 years, Anand is a valuable asset to any team.