About

Nishat A Baig is a highly skilled Staff Software Engineer with over 11 years of programming experience and 5 years of leading for a multitude of different projects. As a Software Craftsman, he takes pride in his work and the process towards it. He has a well-rounded set of skills, including web development with LAMPP, Angular, HTML, CSS, and Git, and knowledge and working experience of Micro Services, Docker, Jenkins, Elastic Search, and more. He is always learning new and upcoming skills and technologies. Currently, Nishat is working as a Team Lead with PHP, Laravel, Nodejs, Express JS, MySQL as the backend and HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, Angular, and jQuery as the frontend technologies at Switch Media. He is responsible for architecting several modules and developing projects as per the microservices architecture. He estimates and assigns tasks, resolves bottlenecks, and contributes individually to the project. He also provides timely updates to the team of tasks being done and their current statuses, feature grooming on a regular basis, bottlenecks and doubts resolution, and more. In his past roles, Nishat has led an API team of 8 developers and 2 testers at Just Buy Live and streamlined the development process for the panels team. He has also been involved in the design, development, and maintenance of modules and features for Localbanya.com with CodeIgniter as the PHP framework. He has implemented Elasticsearch, Vagrant for local development, and auto-provisioning using Ansible, and managed releases and release automation using Gradle and Jenkins, among other responsibilities. Nishat holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering from Vidyalankar Institute of Technology, Wadala, Mumbai, India, and a Diploma in Computer Engineering from Vivekanand Education Society's Polytechnic, Chembur, Mumbai, India. He also completed his high school education from St. Mary's High School, Kalina, Mumbai, India. Nishat's tech stack includes Docker, PHP, Senior Software Engineer, Software Engineer, Search, Web, Elastic Search, AWS, Microservices, Integration, Jenkins, AngularJS, CI/CD, Redis, RabbitMQ, Javascript, MySQL, Frontend, Backend, Ansible, NodeJS, Mobile, and more. With 13.62 years of relevant experience, Nishat is a valuable asset to any organization.