About

Jay Kalita is a highly skilled Senior Software Engineer at PayPal with over 12 years of experience in developing Java EE applications using Spring MVC, Spring Boot, Spring Hibernate, JPA, RESTful web services, and Servlets. He possesses expertise in building web-based applications mostly backend REST APIs, deploying web apps using Docker and Kubernetes on the cloud and on-premise, and working with JavaScript frameworks such as AngularJS. Jay has extensive experience working in Agile environments using Scrum methodology and is proficient in database technologies like RDBMS and HANA. Jay's skillset includes building automation frameworks for REST APIs and UI automation using RestAssured and Protractor, respectively. He has worked on high availability multi-threaded Java applications and has expert knowledge of source control software such as Git, SVN, and Perforce. Jay is also well-versed in Java Build Systems and tools including Maven, Gradle, and Ant. Jay's educational background includes a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, and a Summer Internship in Digital Signal Processing from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. He also attended a Summer Session in Technology & Innovation from Stanford University. Jay has previously worked as a Teaching Assistant for Java and C++ at the University of Texas at Dallas and as a Blackberry Core Applications Java Developer Intern at Blackberry. Currently, he is working as a Research Assistant at the Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, in the Digital Image Processing lab. Jay's tech stack includes Software Engineering, Web Development, Java, Spring, Mobile Development, testing, integration, UI development, Backend Development, Docker, infrastructure, Microservices, Kubernetes, JavaScript, Kafka, SDET, Selenium, Spark, Big Data, MySQL, MongoDB, Hadoop, Spring Boot, iOS, CI/CD, Redis, Jenkins, Frontend Development, AngularJS, QA, and SQL. With his extensive experience and expertise, Jay is a valuable asset to any organization.