About

Purab Kharat is an experienced Engineering Manager at Qualys with over 15 years of expertise in web application development. He has extensive knowledge of multiple languages and social networking APIs and has developed several WordPress themes and plugins, as well as Drupal themes and modules from scratch. Purab enjoys taking on new challenges and solving technical critical problems. As a WordPress and Drupal consultant, Purab has handled many high traffic sites and provided solutions to them. He has also written blogs about WordPress, Drupal, and other technologies and has always been helpful to other open source developers. Purab's WordPress profile and Drupal profile demonstrate his passion for open source development. Purab's responsibilities include coordinating the development of web 2.0 compliant portals, social networking, e-commerce sites, and applications. He is also responsible for architecting and developing UI for various programs, preparing technical, backend, and UI team estimates, executing backend, technical, and UI tasks, and communicating with clients for project requirements and status. Purab specializes in WordPress/Drupal architecting and consulting, as well as PHP, Ruby on Rails, Openx, Admedia, Ubercart, Magento, Flex, jQuery, Javascript, Responsive Web development, Doctrine, Codeigniter, MVC, Memcache, Varnish, Load balancing, Amazon Deployment, Cloud network solution, Hosting, SVN, Git, Linux, CSS, and MySQL. He has held several positions in his career, including Principal Engineer at Qualys and Senior Technical Lead at Smartsourcing Global. Purab holds a B.Com degree from Ness Wadia College and completed his SSC from Camp Education Society. He is a senior software engineer with 19.37 years of relevant experience in web development, UI, Ruby, PHP, backend, MemCache, Javascript, and MySQL. Purab is an excellent communicator and problem solver with a proactive approach to his work.