About

Jay Keswani is a highly experienced Software Engineer with over 6 years of relevant experience in the industry. Currently, he is working as a Software Engineer at Hitachi, where he is leading a team of 5 engineers to implement JWT-based Authentication and Role-based access in a microservice-based architecture for UCP Advisor rest API, enhancing the security of the product. He is also responsible for developing and maintaining REST APIs to integrate UCP-Advisor with the data center infrastructure using Java, GOLANG, and C#. Jay has also architected, designed, and developed the testing framework for the UCP-Advisor REST API service using JAVA, TestNG, and python, which reported over 200 critical bugs. Additionally, he has developed a DevOps pipeline for the team to build, deploy, and test the product, reducing deployment time by 3X. Prior to his current role, Jay worked as a Software Engineer and Research Assistant at the University of Washington, where he performed data analysis on genomic sequences locating patterns in RNA using Python, sci-kit-learn, Seaborn, Pandas, Matplotlib, and R, leading to new insights and improved accuracy in Machine Learning models to 93%. He also created GUI for Docker utilizing No-VNC, Python, and Nginx to containerize applications, making data analysis software portable and easy to set up on cloud-based services, reducing deployment time by 2X. Jay has also engineered data pipelines and containerized workflow in Docker using Python, Orange ML, and Shell Scripting, ensuring reproducibility of test results, with the system now being used by 2 major research institutes. Jay has also worked as a Software Engineer at Kahootz, where he developed user registration, login system, and chrome extension with JavaScript, Node.js, Express, and MySQL with Facebook and Google API integration, reducing email duplication in the database by over 33%. He also created user dashboards for the entire platform in JavaScript and AngularJS, improving page load times by 2X. Jay has deployed the system on AWS (EC2 instance for the Node.js server and RDB for MySQL) using JavaScript and Shell Scripting, and Nginx as a load balancer between 5 separate instances. Jay holds a Master's degree in Computer Science and Systems from the University of Washington and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Applications from Eastern Institute for Integrated Learning in Management. He is proficient in various technologies such as Javascript, test,