About

Jignesh Karelia is a highly experienced tech leader with over 12.5 years of experience in full-stack technologies. He is currently serving as the Director of Engineering at Games24x7, where he leads a team of 50+ members responsible for managing responsive websites, micro frontend apps, native apps, backend services, internal portals, and more. Jignesh is responsible for end-to-end development and execution of product features for web/mobile apps in a unified manner. He is involved in understanding requirements, designing/architecting solutions, development, code reviews, and production deployment. He also manages estimates, project plans, schedules, and resource allocation to ensure that targets are reached with utmost quality. Throughout his career, Jignesh has gained key learnings in unified javascript-based solutions for web/android/iOS apps, including game clients. He has successfully migrated monolithic services to microservices to achieve scalability for handling millions of users. He has also migrated entire tech stacks to cloud platforms with minimum downtime, migrated load balancers in real-time with zero downtime, implemented automatic build systems, dockerized services, and established zero downtime deployment processes. Jignesh's technical expertise includes JavaScript, Html5, ReactJS, ReactNative, NodeJS, CSS, ExpressJS, Swig, Nunjux, Websocket, Redis, Kafka, GraphQL, AWS (EC2, S3, Cloudfront, ALB, Athena, Cloudwatch, Kinesis, etc.), Docker, Jenkins, GOCD, Sonarqube, Git, Jira, MySQL, Shell-script, PHP, Flex - Action-script, C, VC++. Jignesh has previously held senior engineering manager and engineering manager positions at Games24x7. He holds a Master of Computer Applications (MCA) degree from Rollwala Computer Center and a Bachelor of Science in Information Technology from Saurashtra University. Jignesh's relevant experience in the industry is 14.29 years, and his technical skills include senior software engineer, mobile, JavaScript, iOS, AWS, web, Amazon Athena, React Native, Android, Redis, Docker, PHP, MySQL, Kafka, Jenkins, microservices, frontend, and backend.