About

Dakshraj Sharma is a passionate software engineer with 3.19 years of relevant experience in mobile and web development. He is currently working as a Software Engineer at utrade, where he is responsible for developing REST APIs, performing optimized CRUD operations, and working with scale in mind. Throughout his career, Dakshraj has worked with all aspects of web development, including HTML/CSS and Javascript frameworks like React. He is also experienced with backend technologies, such as Django (Python) and Express (Node.js), and has practical experience in DevOps roles, which has boosted his understanding of CI/CD processes and tools like Jenkins. Dakshraj is a strong advocate of Code-first approaches such as Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) and Kubernetes (yaml-based configuration). He believes that containerization and Docker are the most innovative technologies in the tech domain in recent times. In his personal time, Dakshraj loves to explore every technology he finds interesting, and Java Spring and Golang are his current favorites. He is also hoping to explore Scala soon. Dakshraj has worked as a DevOps engineering intern at jungleworks, where he supported CI/CD pipelines and automated server deployments to infrastructure that handled scales of thousands of users a day. He created Terraform scripts to set up completed, ready-to-use infrastructure for production deployments and implemented efficient Jenkins pipelines that minimized the friction in code deployments between environments. He was responsible for monitoring and managing the company's AWS infrastructure and handled real-world production issues in real-time, dealing with problems in the AWS infrastructure and their Linux-based systems. Dakshraj holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Chandigarh College of Engineering & Technology (Degree Wing), Panjab University. He is proficient in various tech stacks, including AWS, Web, infra, Terraform, DevOps, Backend, Python, Spring, CI/CD, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, GCP, Mobile, Spring Boot, Frontend, test, Django, Typescript, MySQL, SQL, product manager, PHP, MongoDB, iOS, and Flask. As an absolute nerd, Dakshraj loves talking about tech and sharing his knowledge with others. He writes blogs on his website and is always open to connecting with like-minded individuals on LinkedIn.