About

Karan Kadakia is a highly skilled and experienced Senior Software Engineer at VMware with a passion for software development, spring boot microservices, big data, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. With nearly 4 years of relevant experience, Karan is an action-oriented and result-focused individual who is always striving to improve his skills and knowledge. Karan has a Master's degree in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Chicago and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering from KJ Somaiya College of Engineering, Vidyavihar. He has an extensive tech stack that includes software engineering, Spring, Spring Boot, big data, frontend development, machine learning, microservices, testing, RabbitMQ, and Kafka. In his current role as Senior Software Engineer at VMware, Karan has engineered a thin layer load balancer and caching server that helped in distributing requests across six servers. He has also implemented high throughput and low latency RESTful APIs to perform service activation for multiple VMware SAAS products. Karan has facilitated in establishing the front-end development team, conducted interviews, and managed a team of two for a quarter. He has reduced app load time to two seconds, leading to increased app user engagement. Additionally, Karan has created scripts that automate his team's operation, making a one-minute manual process a five-second process. He has also been involved in refactoring and optimization of the code delivered in the earlier phase of the project. Karan's past experience at VMware includes working as a Software Engineer Intern. In this role, he led the development of cloud applications on Spring Cloud Data Flow and Pivotal Cloud Foundry. Karan developed the billing platform for cloud products using Spring Boot to develop usage mediation pipelines. He used RabbitMQ and Kafka as message brokers for the platform and JUnit to develop the test cases. Karan's work involved maintaining project progress on Confluence and issues on JIRA. He also worked on daily scrum calls, meetings, and presentations with teams in India, Bulgaria, and different teams in Palo Alto to keep up with the progress of the work in an organized manner. Apart from his work at VMware, Karan is also a Career Coach at YourCareerGuide and an Author. He is a hard-worker, self-starter, and fast learner who enjoys programming, talking tech, and making memes.