About

Jigar Shah is a highly experienced Senior Technical Lead with an impressive 17 years of experience in designing and developing web applications using Java / J2EE and Single Page Application using Front End Technologies in Health Care, Media, and Retail Business Domain. Currently, he works at Blue Shield of California, where he has been instrumental in leading various projects that have improved the company's performance and enabled other websites to migrate to new architecture. One of his notable achievements includes leading the project to rebuild the Find a Doctor website in Simplified Angular & Java service architecture, which improved the performance of doctor search by 70%. Additionally, he has implemented Elastic Search/Kibana/Logstash as a platform for the company, which will enable other websites to migrate search-based functionalities to the Elastic Search Platform. He also led the Proof of Concept & implemented Suggestions Feature for Doctor Search using the Elastic Search Platform, which made a better user experience while searching for doctors. Furthermore, he implemented Document Search by storing Metadata in Elastic Search. Jigar has an excellent educational background, having completed a BE in Computer Science from Dharmsinh Desai University in 2002. He also has experience working with other companies, including Cognizant, where he served as a Senior Associate. Jigar has a diverse skill set, including expertise in Senior Software Engineering, Search, Elastic Search, SQL, Java, AngularJS, Spring, Web, Frontend, test, Backend, designer, Jenkins, Integration, and Software Engineering. With 20.70 years of relevant experience, Jigar is a highly skilled technical lead who has a proven track record of delivering successful projects.