Chintan Radia
Global Head Of Data Strategy (Vice President)
Pune, Maharashtra, India
Summary
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SeniorChintan Radia is a data and technology leader with 10+ years of experience, currently serving as Global Head of Data Strategy (VP) at Thoughtworks, where he designs and scales data products and drives transformative initiatives across North America, Europe, APAC and India. He has progressed through product and digital leadership roles at ThoughtWorks, combining hands-on engineering fluency with strategic delivery for large, distributed teams. An active open-source contributor, he has improved Spring Boot build and deployment workflows in the popular JHipster Lite project and added front-end drag-and-drop enhancements to the widely used dragula library, demonstrating range across back-end and UI work. Outside tech he is a NISM-certified mutual fund advisor and research analyst who is passionate about improving financial literacy and enabling financial independence in India. He also founded FightAgainstCovid.org under Radia Foundation, a grassroots initiative that mobilized critical resources and blood donations during the pandemic and received media recognition. This blend of product, engineering, community impact and financial expertise underpins his pragmatic, mission-driven approach to data strategy.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
236reputation
13kreached
11answers
7questions
Github Skills (24)
javascript10
react-components10
drag-and-drop10
java10
react-component10
javas10
component-kit10
spring-boot10
maven10
vanilla-javascript10
frontend10
hexagonal-architecture9
docker8
generator8
dockers8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
jhipster/jhipster-lite
Jan 2022 - May 2022
JHipster Lite ⚡ is a development platform to generate, develop & deploy modern web applications & microservices architecture, step by step - using Hexagonal Architecture :gem:
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 48 commits, 13 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Chintan focused on refactoring and improving Spring Boot configuration within the JHipster Lite project. Their contributions involved replacing the Spring Boot parent project with the spring-boot-dependencies BOM for dependency management, modifying the spring-boot-maven-plugin configuration, and enhancing test coverage. These changes aimed to streamline the project's build process and improve its compatibility with Spring Boot. Further contributions involved adding a Dockerfile to the project, enabling easier deployment.
spring-bootliteweb-applicationsjhipsterdocker
bevacqua/dragula
Aug 2015 - Sep 2015
:ok_hand: Drag and drop so simple it hurts
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 7 PRs, 48 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Chintan primarily contributed to the `dragula` library by implementing and refining features related to drag-and-drop functionality. Their work included the addition of a `copy` feature, allowing items to be duplicated during dragging, as well as the implementation of sorting capabilities within the copy feature. They also modified existing event handling and improved code readability through indentation fixes.
reactdraggingjavascriptso-simpledrag-and-drop
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