About

Hitesh Ramani is a software developer with over 7 years of relevant experience and a passion for programming and development. He is currently working as a Backend Developer at Xapo, a financial/bitcoin wallet company known for its cold storage vault and a bitcoin-based debit card. He has worked across various different spaces in the IT industry with fast growth. Hitesh has a Master's Degree in Computer Science from the University of Hyderabad, and a Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) in Computer Science from Lingaya's University. He also attended Cambridge School, Srinivaspuri. Hitesh has extensive experience working with technologies such as Python, Flask, JavaScript, React, MySQL, AWS, Git, Docker, and more. He has contributed extensively to the development of security, fraud prevention/detection (and more) features for the backend at Xapo. He has also revamped the architecture of the entire backend and developed many features from scratch to deployment, including tech design, implementation, testing (unit, integration, and staging), and deployment. Hitesh has actively participated in design discussions, code reviews, and debugging, and has built several APIs, complying with and adhering to pragmatic RESTful practices. He has worked with different internal teams in a microservices architecture for certain integrations and has also integrated a couple of external services into their backend. He has developed a server-less data pipeline to gather information from various different services to be collected into AWS Redshift, which could further be connected to different visualization tools. Hitesh has owned staging and production deployments, including migrations (when required), and has worked with team members of his own and different teams over various different time zones and cultures. He has received appreciation from his manager on various features for work, proactiveness, and ownership. Hitesh is skilled in Backend, Software Engineer, AWS, Python, Flask, Bitcoin, MySQL, Docker, Django, test, Postgres, MongoDB, Microservices, Integration, OpenCV, CI/CD, RabbitMQ, JavaScript, Research Scientist, and Web. He is a go-getter who believes that anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.