About

Omkar Joshi is a highly skilled Senior Software Engineer with over 7 years of experience in the industry. He specializes in Backend Software Development, Ruby on Rails, Elixir, Data Platform Engineering and ETL, DevOps, and Object-Oriented Design. He is passionate about problem-solving, debugging, root cause analysis, clean software design and architecture, experimenting, adopting and learning new technology, and process optimization. Currently, Omkar works remotely as a Senior Software Engineer for Learn To Be, a company that provides free education to underprivileged children. In his previous roles, he worked as a Backend Developer for Bookjane, a Canada-based health sector company where he worked remotely and was responsible for developing GraphQL with Ruby on Rails. He also worked as a Software Engineer for Anarock, where he led the backend efforts for a new product for property developers. He worked on the data platform layer, which was written in Elixir functional programming language and used Phoenix framework to expose a REST API. Omkar is a skilled professional with a Master’s Degree in Computer Science from North Carolina State University and a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Engineering from the University of Mumbai. He has worked with a wide range of technologies, including Ruby, AWS, Postgres, MongoDB, Redis, DevOps, Web, Javascript, Microservices, NoSQL, Kafka, Jenkins, Azure, Mobile, Ansible, New Relic, NLP, CI/CD, test, RabbitMQ, Kubernetes, Docker, Frontend, and Python. Omkar is an active blogger and shares his thoughts on his blog at https://joshio1.blog/. He has also contributed to open source projects such as Apipie and created a Ruby gem for error handling called Beekeeper. Omkar is a dedicated and hardworking individual who is always looking for ways to improve his skills and knowledge.