About

Jobin Jacob Kavalam is a Senior Software Engineer at Zendesk with over seven years of professional experience in developing, building, and operating cloud-based web applications. He is a full-stack web developer and considers himself a polyglot programmer with particular expertise in JavaScript/React, Java/Spring, and skills in Node.js development. Jobin is passionate about delivering simple and robust solutions for complex real-world problems. He is currently working on tooling to improve developer happiness and productivity at Zendesk, primarily on test infrastructure and tools. He is proficient in JavaScript/Node.js and Golang. Jobin has worked as a Software Engineer at Singtel, where he built a developer portal based on React.js, implemented end-to-end testing using Cypress, and performance benchmarking based on Lighthouse. He also built a purchase flow for a home insurance product, implemented web APIs, and developed features that leveraged cloud APIs, including data encryption, email sending, and SFTP integration. Previously, Jobin worked at Works Applications as an R&D/Software Engineer, where he built authentication and authorization features for the cloud ERP platform based on a tech stack that included Java/Spring and JavaScript (Google closure). He also designed and implemented a SAML-based single sign-on (SSO) integration for the platform and adopted a service-oriented approach to implementing authentication. He mentored a team of junior developers and guided them on effective software development, including sprint planning and organizing knowledge-sharing sessions. Jobin holds a Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) and a Master of Technology (M.Tech.) in Micro-electronics and VLSI Design from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. He also attended Good Shepherd Public School & Junior College, Changanacherry. Jobin's tech stack includes Software Engineer, Javascript, Web, test, Spring, NodeJS, infra, Integration, Spring Boot, Frontend, Backend, Java, and Golang. With 8.79 years of relevant experience, Jobin is a skilled and experienced software engineer who can deliver simple and robust solutions for complex real-world problems.