About

Kartik Kapadia is a highly skilled Software Engineer at Google with over 5 years of experience in various stages of SDLC such as requirements gathering, business requirements documentation, architecture design, development, and unit testing. He completed his Master of Science in Computer Science with a concentration in Data Science from The University of Texas at Dallas. Kartik is passionate about learning new technologies for Web, Mobile, and Desktop Application development, as well as data analytics using Big data technologies and machine learning. Kartik has hands-on experience in Java/J2EE technologies and frameworks such as Struts, Spring MVC, SpringBoot, and Hibernate. He has designed user interfaces using JSP as well as JS frameworks like AngularJS, MeteorJS, and NodeJS. He has also developed several packages in Oracle PL/SQL and generated reports/forecasts for business teams through the JasperReports library using iReport tool. Kartik has extensive knowledge of programming languages such as Java, C, C++, and R. He is also skilled in database and reporting technologies such as Oracle (PL/SQL), MySQL, MongoDB, and Postgres. Additionally, he has expertise in web technologies like HTML, JSP, JavaScript, CSS, PHP, XML/JSON, Rest APIs, and SOAP webservices, as well as scripting technologies like VB Script and Python. Kartik has worked with version control tools like Tortoise SVN and GIT, and servers such as Apache Tomcat 5.5 & above, Oracle Application Server (OC4J), and JBoss. He has also gained experience in Big Data Analytics using Hadoop (HDFS), Map Reduce, Pig, Hive, Cassandra, Apache Spark, Hbase, and Splunk, as well as search technologies like ElasticSearch, ELK stack, and message broker technologies like Apache Kafka and Rabbit MQ. Prior to joining Google, Kartik worked as a Staff Software Engineer at Visa, where he focused on design, development, and testing of multiple applications. He was the lead developer in transitioning from monolith services to a microservice architecture and was involved in exposing services as REST APIs on the Visa developer platform. He also developed operational dashboards in Splunk that helped optimize application performance and designed and developed a concept for a payment chatbot using machine learning libraries. Kartik's education includes a Master of Science (MS) in Computer Science from The University of Texas at Dallas and a Bachelor of Engineering (BE) in Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering from