About

Chirag Thakkar is a self-assertive Software Engineer with over seven years of experience in developing production-level code for various businesses. He has a proven expertise in Enterprise Java Development, object-oriented analysis and design, and an exceptional record overseeing all facets of Software Development Life Cycle, from analysis and design to implementation in multi-tier layered architecture. Chirag has strong technical experience in Java (Java8 features, Collections, Java design patterns, Multi-threading), J2EE, Spring-boot, Spring-cloud, Spring (MVC, IOC, AOP, Data Access, Test, Security), Hibernate, SQL, NoSQL, Web Services (RESTFul), Junit, Mockito, Kafka, Docker, AWS. He has experience in Architecting Back-End of an application with J2EE and related technologies, OOA/OOD using UML, and applying design patterns. He has also translated requirements into architecture, design, and implementation for medium-sized to large applications. Chirag has experience with testing frameworks such as Junit and Mockito, working on in-memory NoSQL Databases such as Redis, and project estimation. He has worked with project planning tools such as Jira and Rally and has experience with continuous software development using CI/CD pipeline. He has also worked on code review and refactoring, deploying docker containerized application on AWS cloud, and working with distributed streaming and webhook notification platforms like Kafka, RabbitMQ, and SQS. Currently, Chirag is working as a Senior Software Engineer at Clear. He has implemented several features and functionalities that have improved the efficacy of the platform, such as the Manual settlement and Deposit feature in the Cleartax payments services, the Overage charge functionality in the Licensing Service, and the Item lookup feature for the platform team. He has also migrated the old java code to support JAVA 8 syntax and functional programming and received accolades from team members for prioritizing and implementing the critical HSN code lookup feature in quick time and unblocking other dependent teams. In the past, Chirag has worked as a Senior Software Engineer at Visa and a Software Engineer at Sage Intacct. At Visa, he contributed as a full-stack developer and worked on several time-critical features in Cybersource (Visa's Payment solution). At Sage Intacct, he was an individual contributor in the Intacct Salesforce integration team and was actively involved in feature development and escalations resolution. Chirag holds a Master’s