About

Chirag Vijay is a highly experienced Software Architect with over 10 years of experience in the development of software and web applications. He has a proven track record of working on different products, closely working with stakeholders and management for the Architecture design, project planning, deliverables, and quality output. Chirag is responsible for the overall architecture, high-level design, low-level design, and non-functional requirements. He takes up complex technical, scalability or performance challenges and has designed a Microservice architecture. Chirag has experience in working with external clients like J-PAL, Torrent, GIF, P&G Shiksha, Naandi, Multiple state governments, GT bank. He has worked directly with management and stakeholders for the development of products/applications from scratch and delivering the same on target. He has experience in managing/working with the in-house team of software development and team on multiple locations. He is experienced in managing both Development and Maintenance projects. Chirag is a quick learner and has the ability to grasp new skill sets. He is a strong program and project management professional having diversified skills and is well acquainted with Software Development Life Cycle. He has made on-ground visits for reviewing real-time challenges and getting feedback from consumers. Chirag is skilled in the development of architecture, web applications, games, educational programs, and products. He is proficient in programming skills in different languages, technologies, and frameworks such as PHP, MySQL, SQLite, MongoDB, ElasticSearch, XML, JavaScript, JQuery, AJAX, JSON, HTML5, CodeIgniter, WebSockets, etc. He has hands-on experience in using a range of tools & services such as GIT, SVN, Eclipse, Macromedia Package, Sublime Text, VPN, Putty, Adobe package, Visual Studio, Amazon Web Services (EC2, API gateway, S3 bucket, SQS, Lambda, Redis, Memcache), etc. He is flexible to work on different development set up with Windows, Linux, and MAC environments. Currently, Chirag is working as a Software Architect at Educational Initiatives. He is responsible for analyzing current technologies used within the projects and determining ways to improve them. He mentors engineers, conducts code and design reviews, and is hands-on to develop technical products. He is supporting a product that is being used by over 10 lacs students. The technology used includes PHP, MySql, MongoDB, ElasticSearch, AWS LAMBDA, SQS