About

Gaurav Raj is a seasoned Software Development professional with over 5 years of relevant experience. He holds profound expertise in working with SpringBoot, JPA, Hibernate, Version Controlling, and JUnit Testing for multiple micro-services. Gaurav has a strong foundation in databases like MySQL and Cassandra, and IDEs like IntelliJ IDEA and Eclipse. He is currently working as a Senior Engineer at Nagarro, one of the fastest-growing SME lending finTechs headquartered in the UK. Gaurav's technical expertise includes HTML, CSS, C, Java, Python, Spring, Spring Boot, Hibernate, JPA, and AWS. He is also proficient in using Postman, Git, and Agile methodology. Gaurav's interest in Machine Learning and Convolutional Neural Networks is a testament to his passion for staying ahead of the curve in the ever-evolving tech industry. In his previous roles, Gaurav has worked as a Senior Technology Analyst and Technology Analyst at OakNorth, where he was part of the Core Banking Application Team. He worked on a project called Nucleus, inspired by Apache Fineract and Infosys Finacle, for lending highly customized loans to small and medium enterprises (SMEs) for the European Union market, primarily the UK. Gaurav's tech stack for this project included Java 8, Spring Boot, Micro-services, JPA, Hibernate, MySQL, Cassandra, AWS, and ActiveMQ. He developed and managed a new micro-service to handle third-party APIs calls, introduced a queue-like concept, and developed a framework that could deal with version-2 APIs of third-party gracefully. Gaurav holds a Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) degree in Computer Science from Haldia Institute of Technology. He is a Software Engineer with expertise in AWS, MySQL, Cassandra, Spring Boot, Spring, Microservices, test, Java, ML, Neural Networks, and Python. Gaurav's relevant experience, coupled with his technical expertise, makes him a valuable asset to any organization.