About

Viraj Patil is a Manager of Engineering at Cumulus Systems with over 9 years of experience in product research and development in both start-up and enterprise-class environments. He is responsible for designing and developing end-to-end web architecture, ensuring the security and responsiveness of applications. His specialties include product development, product research, design and development of features, rapid development, rapid proof-of-concept, prototyping, and applying software development processes. Viraj is adept at the end-to-end development of software products/projects from inception, requirement specs, planning, designing, implementation, configuration management, testing, documentation, and closure with cross-cultural teams. He has technical expertise in the Software Development Life (SDLC) entailing requirement analysis, design, development, and troubleshooting with Agile methodology. He has also handled various projects for developing software that helped in reducing manpower engagement. As a self-motivated team leader, Viraj has hands-on experience in programming skills, client-server infrastructure, and requirements gathering. He provides technical leadership to a team of excellent software engineers, which requires technical depth to make complex design decisions and the hands-on ability to lead by example. He instills and follows good software development practices and ensures timely delivery of high-quality products. Viraj is also responsible for hiring and mentoring his team, helping individuals grow in their careers, having a constant dialogue about their aspirations, and sharing prompt, clear, and actionable feedback about performance. Viraj's past experience includes working as an Associate Architect and Senior Technical Lead at Cumulus Systems. He was nominated for the STAR Employee award and built a team of 5+ high-performing engineers from scratch. He also participated in the interview process of the company resource recruitment program. Viraj holds a DAC degree in Information Technology from C-DAC and a BE degree in Computer Science and Engineering from KITS College of Engineering Kolhapur. He has a diverse tech stack, including software engineering, research science, web development, testing, JavaScript, Typescript, SQL, NoSQL, MySQL, Hadoop, Kafka, microservices, search, mobile, and Java. With over 10 years of relevant experience, Viraj is an energetic, self-motivated team leader who is passionate about designing and developing innovative software products.