Avani Makwana is a seasoned delivery leader and technical program manager based in the San Francisco Bay Area, currently serving as Director of Global Delivery with 15+ years of experience orchestrating large-scale cloud and enterprise programs. She has led cross-functional teams of 40–65 engineers across fintech, healthcare, eCommerce and energy, driving multi-million-dollar engagements and growing accounts from $1.5M to $5M+. Comfortable at the intersection of strategy and execution, she has overseen cloud, microservices, CI/CD and GenAI productivity initiatives (including partnering on a McKinsey/Goldman Sachs GenAI program using Copilot tools). A hands-on technologist early in her career, she still contributes to back-end code—most recently improving dynamic configuration and time-dimension features in the popular Java Elide framework for GraphQL/JSON-API services. Known for building delivery frameworks, OKR-driven teams, and repeatable launch processes, she combines deep delivery rigor with a track record of measurable business impact.
7 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma in Computer Engineering IT / Computer Engineering, Diploma in Computer Engineering IT / Computer Engineering at Govt. Ploytechnic Ahmedabad
Elide is a Java library that lets you stand up a GraphQL/JSON-API web service with minimal effort.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:3 reviews, 46 commits, 39 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Avani primarily focused on improving the Elide project's dynamic configuration and data aggregation features. Their contributions involved cleaning up dynamic config resources, implementing dynamic config inheritance, and refactoring the handlebar template for code generation. They also worked on time dimension improvements, specifically renaming `WEEKDATEISO` and integrating multiple time dimensions. This work is aligned with the repository's focus on building GraphQL/JSON-API web services with Java and ORM features.
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