About

Swanand Keskar is a seasoned Software Craftsman with over 6 years of experience in Product and Platform Engineering. He is proficient in Kotlin, Java, Typerscript/Javascript and believes in choosing the right tool for the job. He has experience working with cloud-based software at scale and has contributed to Open-Source projects. Swanand has worked with pull request based workflow as well as Trunk based development. He has a good understanding of infrastructure-related tools and concepts such as Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Serverless framework, and Terraform. Swanand has designed distributed systems using Serverless computing, AWS Lambda and event-driven architecture with different event sources along with observability, alerting, and monitoring. He has a knack for writing mutation-free code adhering to SOLID principles and clean coding practices. He uses static analysis tools such as SonarCloud, Detekt, Dependabot to automate code quality checks, dependency version upgrades, and security checks baked into the code pipeline. Swanand is skilled at requirements analysis, collaboration across various levels, and participates in knowledge sharing with coworkers, code reviews. He is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). Currently, he is working as a Senior Software Engineer at gojek. In his previous roles, he worked as a Sr. Application Developer at Medly and was part of the platform engineering team. He architected systems on AWS cloud using Serverless architecture. He also worked as an Application Developer at Medly, where he was an early member of the engineering team in Pune. He built new features and backend API and performed spikes and built proof of concepts to address the feasibility of solutions for decision making. Swanand has a Master's degree in Computer Applications (MCA) from the Department of Computer Science, Pune University, and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the University of Pune. He is proficient in AWS, Kotlin, infra, Terraform, CI/CD, Javascript, DevOps, and Backend technologies. With his relevant experience of 6.78 years, he is a valuable asset to any organization.