About

Nirav Thakkar is a highly skilled Software Engineer with over 9 years of experience in the field. He is a GCP Certified and Terraform Certified professional with expertise in Python Development, Web Application Development, and Python Automation Implementation. Nirav has extensive experience in the full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), architecting scalable platforms, object-oriented programming, database design, and agile methodologies. Nirav is proficient in implementing Unit tests, Integration tests, and User acceptance tests using unittest and behave framework. He has enforced 80% of minimum code coverage for new code and 70% for legacy code using test cases. He has developed web-based applications using Python 2.7/3.X, Flask, Angular, HTML, CSS, and JQuery. Nirav has leveraged async programming of Python to achieve concurrency for performance-critical modules of the project. Nirav has a deep understanding of software design principles, object-oriented programming, data structures, algorithms, and coding conventions with an emphasis on simple yet elegant code. He is experienced with relational databases like MySQL, MSSQL, Postgres, and non-relational databases like MongoDB. Nirav is proficient in using data collection, cleaning, manipulation, and visualization tools like Netmiko, Napalm, Nornir, pretty table, Pickle, PyCharm, Pandas, and requests to drive improvements throughout the entire software development lifecycle. Nirav has developed CI-CD pipelines for Network Python Scripts (Network as code) and tested Ansible scripts for Network automation for different network vendors and platforms. He has developed automated processes to govern, manage, and maintain a complex network environment. Nirav manages the code deployment cycle using CI-CD pipeline, including different testing such as unit testing, functional testing, integration testing, and production deployment. He has developed web UI for the network automation platform for internal users using Angular 9 and integrated it with Python Flask API server for data exchange on user operation. Nirav has experience in building Data Pipelines and Feature Engineering modules with performance excellency. He has experience in project deployment on AWS EC2 and containerization tool like Docker. Nirav is proficient in building RESTful APIs and has excellent debugging, problem-solving, optimization, and testing skills. He is a CCNA and CCNP Certified Engineer, AWS Solution Architect certified Engineer, Redhat Certified Engineer, and SolarWinds Certified Professional – NPM. Nirav is currently working as a Network Automation Software