About

Vikas Aghav is a highly skilled Senior Software Engineer with over 7 years of experience in the field. He specializes in Java, Data Structures, JavaScript, SpringBoot, Hibernate, Microservices, Algorithms, and ElasticSearch. Currently, he is working at Qualys as a Senior Software Engineer, where he is responsible for designing and developing microservices using Spring Boot, Spring Data JPA, and Spring Cloud capabilities. Vikas is also working on a Microservice that provides fast searching capability with the help of Elasticsearch. He has brought down the searching speed to milliseconds in an extensive database using Elasticsearch. Additionally, he has worked on the control evaluation engine module where he wrote rules in java and Antlr to resolve complex queries. Vikas has also worked on the Auto Remediation feature which secures the customer's systems from misconfiguration, potentially resulting in the system being vulnerable to cyber attacks. Before joining Qualys, Vikas worked as a Senior Software Engineer at Flexera, where he introduced the Spring framework in the product to replace the old legacy framework Struts. He also worked on java8 to OpenJDK migration and implemented best practices for coding standards, unit/integration testing, deployment checklists, and code reviews. He also worked as a Product Development Engineer at Aptean, where he built a mechanism to upload and store various forms of media files from MTN Chat and store them in the database. He also developed a feature Crew Group for efficient resource allocation. Vikas holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering from Savitribai Phule Pune University. He also has a PGP in Business Analytics and Business Intelligence from GLIM and the University of Texas. Vikas has a strong tech stack that includes Software Engineering, Spring, Elastic Search, Microservices, Java, Spring Boot, SQL, Javascript, Cassandra, Integration, test, Kubernetes, Docker, NoSQL, Kafka, and Search. With his strong technical skills and extensive experience, Vikas is a valuable asset to any organization.