About

Ridham Tarpara is an experienced software engineer with a strong background in scalable server architecture solutions, database designs, backend designs, microservices, and hybrid apps. He has worked in the media, automotive, and construction industries, and has a demonstrated history of delivering high-quality work. Ridham has a Bachelor of Technology in Information Technology from L.D College of Engineering - Ahmedabad. He is skilled in DevOps areas such as Docker, CI/CD, development life cycles, ELK, and Kubernetes, and has worked on AWS, GCP, and Heroku. Currently, Ridham is the Head of Engineering at Abroad, a digital platform that provides people analytics and personalized coaching solutions to maximize the growth of high-impact leaders. At Abroad, he has developed an assessment platform that measures growth in 18 subcategories critical to leadership and organizational success. He has also developed a robust audio media library for a seamless audio learning experience, an AI algorithm to match the best coach for clients based on more than 25 parameters, and a coach platform to manage all coaching activities. Ridham has also developed an admin platform to manage all users, companies, assessments, promos, accounting, payment, and media. He has created robust and scalable queues to send insights and reflection questions to users and developed frontend sites for the platform. Prior to Abroad, Ridham worked as a Senior Software Engineer at Zuru Tech India, where he developed real-time Node.js applications with express and Firebase, converted monolithic applications into more than 20 microservices, and created applications in Golang on top of Firebase and CockroachDB. He also managed a centralized authenticator service and proxy written in Golang and led the backend team. At Eveningstar.io, Ridham developed an algorithm to scrap and manage cryptocurrency price tracking and managed data from multiple sources for the platform. Ridham has a strong tech stack that includes AWS, AI, microservices, Golang, CI/CD, Kubernetes, Docker, DevOps, GCP, Javascript, NodeJS, and more. With 6.43 years of relevant experience, he is a strong engineering professional who is skilled in requirement analysis, technical planning, and timelines. He is also experienced in managing engineering teams and architecture.