About

Anand Vijapur is a highly experienced Backend Software Development Engineer, currently working at Amazon. With over 15 and a half years of hands-on experience in Java development, Anand has a strong foundation in Core Java, Distributed Systems, and NoSQL. He is well-versed in AWS services such as Lambda, SNS, SQS, Kinesis, Redshift, AppSync, ElasticSearch, and ElastiCache, as well as GCP services such as Cloud Functions and Firestore DB. Anand is also proficient in SQL, Hibernate, GreenDao, Oracle DBMS, SQLite, SOA, REST RPC microservices, GraphQL, Distributed Caching, Python, JUnit, Groovy Spock, JavaScript, Apache Pig, Android Java development, Springboot, and JEE. Anand's primary interest lies in working on and with distributed systems and its intricacies. He is well-acquainted with ideas and fundamentals of programming paradigms and languages like Go and Rust. Currently, at Amazon, Anand has architected, designed, and built a system that derives and generates varied types of business metrics for Amazon's network of ~50k access points and 1500 RPS. The resulting system is cloud-native, serverless event-driven architecture using AWS Lambda, SNS, SQS, DynamoDB services. He has also built backend service APIs to facilitate customer returns' feature at Amazon pickup stores that grew to a scale of ~15k returns a day. Prior to Amazon, Anand worked at SAP Ariba as a Consultant Engineer, where he developed RESTful services for product catalog management and created usage reports to track adoption by writing Hadoop PIG scripts. He also worked at Obopay as a Module Lead, where he built EJB services with Hibernate and Oracle DBMS for the pricing module and led a team of three engineers to build servlet/JSP UI in Struts framework for the pricing module. Anand holds a Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) degree from Vishveshwaraiah Technological University. He is proficient in a wide range of technologies, including Software Engineering, AWS, Java, Backend, Javascript, SQL, Hadoop, MapReduce, NoSQL, Elastic Search, Spring Boot, Microservices, GCP, UI, Web, and Mobile. With 16.20 years of relevant experience, Anand is a highly skilled and accomplished software development engineer.