About

Hemal Thakkar is a highly experienced Lead Member of Technical Staff at Salesforce, with over 12 years of experience in leading product-based companies and working at the framework level implementations. He has a strong background in backend/server-side programming and is interested in distributed systems/programming. Hemal is efficient in multithreading programming and concurrent data structures and has experiences in RESTful APIs and full-stack web development. Hemal's primary skills include Java, JEE, SaaS, cloud platform, object-oriented analysis and design (OOAD), multithreaded and concurrency programming, restful webservices, database design, SQL/PLSQL, and frameworks like Spring, Hibernate, and JPA. He also has secondary skills in Javascript, Typescript, Angular, Ojet, jQuery, HTML5, CSS3, Python, C, C++, Shell Scripting, and basic knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes. Hemal is proficient in tools like SVN, GIT, Jenkins, Maven, Rally, Splunk, and JIRA. Hemal has previously worked as a Principal Application Engineer at Oracle, where he was part of the Taleo product team (Fluid) that enables companies to easily source, recruit, and retain top talent with an engaging, social, and data-rich talent management software suite. He was also working on Taleo-specific SaaS applications and cloud platform development team. Before that, he was a Senior Member Technical at ADP, where he was part of the EasyPay/RUN application, which is a global leader in payroll processing. Hemal holds a Master of Technology degree in Computer Science from IIIT Hyderabad and a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electronics from Vishwakarma Institute of Technology. He is a problem solver and a learner who is always interested in new technologies and has relevant experience of 15.70 years. Hemal is a skilled full-stack developer with a strong foundation in data structures and algorithms (DSA) and is interested in distributed systems and programming.