About

Chirag Viradiya is a Senior Software Engineer Manager at Uplight/UST BlueConch Technologies with over 10 years of experience in technology, product design, and development. He has a technical background and experience in different domains like Energy, Search Engines, Social Networking, Social Gaming, and Web 2.0. Chirag has worked on various technologies like Ruby on Rails, JAVA/J2EE, Python, and has experience in Operational Project Management activities. He has experience with the complete technology lifecycle (design, development, QA, deployment) of web applications and has interacted with various clients. Chirag has also worked with startups and is dedicated to Ruby on Rails. Chirag's specialties include Ruby on Rails [Software Development & Design, Unit & Functional Testing, Deployment], Java [Programming, NLP(GATE)], J2EE [JSP, Servlets], and Python [Programming, Information Retrieval(crawling, parsing)]. He is passionate about following the best practices and keeping the code modular and succinct with the correct structure. Currently, Chirag is working as a Software Engineering Manager at xpanxion. In the past, he has worked as an Associate Architect and Senior Technical Lead at xpanxion. He has mainly worked for FirstFuel, where he worked on developing a web interface for an Engagement portal that transforms energy consumption information into intelligent action. Chirag completed his Master of Science in Software Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, in 2011. He also holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree from Birla Vishvakarma Mahavidyalaya, which he completed in 2005. Chirag's tech stack includes Senior Software Engineer, Software Engineer, Ruby, Web, Information Retrieval, NLP, test, QA, product designer, Search, Python, and Java. With 15.78 years of relevant experience, Chirag is a skilled software engineer manager with expertise in various technologies and domains.