About

Raj Choksi is an experienced Full Stack Java developer with a passion for solving business problems with tailored data and algorithms. He enjoys connecting ideas from different disciplines, people from different teams, and applications from different industries. With strong technical skills and work experience as a Software Developer, Raj is able to jump across verticals to deliver high-performing scalable solutions. Raj has worked with a variety of programming languages including Java, C++, JavaScript, Python, and HTML/CSS3. He is also proficient in working with databases such as MySQL, MongoDB, and SQLite. Raj has experience with a range of technologies including SpringBoot, Angular 8, Node.js, Hibernate, React.js, Express.js, Django, Flask, REST API, and GraphQL. He is familiar with libraries such as Pandas, NumPY, matplotlib, Seaborn, Scipy, Scikit-learn, and NLTK. Additionally, Raj is proficient in using tools such as Git, Docker, AWS, Heroku, and Postman. Currently working as a Software Engineer III at Walmart, Raj has contributed as a Full Stack Software Developer for the collaboration team which works to create internal tools operated across the whole organization. He has designed and developed an integration between the self-service portal and JIRA with 80K active users to deliver event data of 4k active projects in real-time based on users’ subscription. Raj has also utilized Kafka for resiliency and to stream data of approximately 50k events per day from JIRA webhook to subscribed user dashboards. He has leveraged microservice architecture with Spring Boot for code modularity and ReactJS components to attain reusability. Raj has optimized data matching algorithms from quadratic to linear time complexity to attain faster results. He has executed Redis as a caching mechanism to decrease response time by 80% and increased throughput by 90%. Raj has accomplished scalability and reduced cost by 60% with the deployment of Docker containers using Kubernetes. In the past, Raj has worked as a Teaching Assistant and Interviewer at S30, an interview prep and recruiting platform that trains talented engineers and gets them recruited at top tech companies. He has helped and mentored 35 students in their interview preparation and solved doubts and guided them in almost 200 data structure and algorithm problems. Raj has also taken 211 mock interviews and guided students in improving their communication, problem-solving, data structures and algorithms, system design, behavioral, and coding skills. Additionally, he has worked as