About

Smit Thakkar is an accomplished Associate Tech Lead with 5 years of experience in building robust solutions for changing business needs and market challenges with scalable technologies. He is a proactive and innovative IT Professional who possesses a strong passion and curiosity for technology. Smit is a responsible and articulate individual with excellent leadership skills and a proven track record of leading development teams in enterprise-wide development projects. Smit's strengths lie in solutions optimization, mobile and cloud solutions, and global project management. He efficiently communicates complex technical requirements to business stakeholders and has a strong leadership record. Currently working at Forbes, Smit is responsible for organizing system infrastructure documentation and operating procedures, strengthening controls, and enhancing overall performance. He has also integrated automation into monitoring and security measures to reduce required employee attention. Additionally, Smit has held final responsibility for the architecture, design, and implementation of company-wide platforms and applications. Prior to joining Forbes, Smit worked as a Software Engineer at Morgan Stanley, where he was a Technical Consultant responsible for building scalable financial systems. He designed and implemented microservices to de-couple existing monolithic systems using 12-factor app principles. Smit created two new microservices in the current project, Order Search Service, and File Attachment service using Cloud-Native principles. He applied the best DevOps practices to reduce turnaround time and automate deployments, reducing deployment time by 30%. Smit also designed the front end for the current project in Angular with Jasmine unit-tests and Protractor end-to-end tests. He used Elasticsearch to reduce ad-hoc searches on the database by flattening some contents of the database as JSON Documents. Smit's education includes a Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) in Computer Engineering from KJ Somaiya College of Engineering, Vidyavihar. He also attended Kendriya Vidyalaya Southern Command from 2005 to 2012. Smit's tech stack includes Senior Software Engineer, Elastic Search, Microservices, infra, AngularJS, Mobile, Software Engineer, Spring Boot, Spring, DevOps, Search, Frontend, Java, and iOS. With his relevant experience of 5.36 years, Smit is a valuable asset to any organization looking for a skilled and experienced IT professional.