About

Hardik Thakkar is a highly skilled Software Development Engineer 2 at Amazon with over 4 years of relevant experience. He has a strong foundation in software engineering and a passion for learning new things. Hardik is adept at collaborating with teams across different timezones to achieve business results. Hardik has worked across the stack with Angular, React, and Android as user-facing pieces, and C#, Java, and PHP as backend pieces. He is also experienced with Postgres, MySQL, and Firebase as data stores. Hardik enjoys building things from scratch and solving design problems that arise in the process. Hardik completed his Bachelor of Engineering in Information Technology from Sardar Patel Institute of Technology, where he was awarded a Gold Medal for standing first in his batch. He has also completed a Diploma in Computer Technology/Computer Systems Technology from Shah and Anchor Kutchhi Polytechnic and his SSC from I.E.S V.N Sule Guruji English Medium High School. Hardik has worked with Microsoft as a Software Development Engineer and as a Software Development Engineer Intern, where he worked with the Cortana Reminders team. During his internship, he created a Microservice POC, designed a REST API, and created a voice flow for Cortana-enabled speakers. He leveraged Publisher Subscriber (PubSub) architecture to deliver reminders. Hardik's tech stack includes Software Engineering, Search, PHP, MySQL, Postgres, Backend, Microservices, Java, Android, AngularJS, SQL, product manager, and Javascript. He is a highly motivated and dedicated professional who is always eager to learn new things and take on new challenges.