Jay Parekh
Software Development Engineer II at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolJay Parekh is a Software Development Engineer II based in Toronto with 14 years of hands-on experience building backend systems across cloud and enterprise environments, currently contributing at AWS. He has a track record of improving reliability and developer productivity—from automating build analysis at IBM to shipping backend fixes on open-source projects like MarkUs—while moving between startups and large organizations such as Wayfair and ADP. Jay combines pragmatic problem-solving with a focus on efficient, maintainable solutions and occasionally reaches beyond feature work to improve tooling and configuration. He holds a Computer Science degree with a software engineering specialization from the University of Toronto and brings both legacy system know-how and modern cloud-native practice to his work. Colleagues value him for steady execution on complex backend issues and for advocating social impact alongside technical excellence.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science with specialization in Software Engineering, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science with specialization in Software Engineering at University of Toronto - New CollegeHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at George Harvey Collegiate Institute
Gujarati, Hindi, Urdu
Stackoverflow
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4kreached
3answers
3questions
Github Skills (15)
activerecord10
ruby-rails10
rails10
ruby10
html8
i18n-node7
i18n-js7
i18next7
java6
hibernate-envers6
dropwizard6
css6
hibernate6
pdfbox6
git3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
MarkUsProject/Markus
Jan 2012 - Mar 2012
Git repository of MarkUs
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:39 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Jay primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the MarkUs project. Their work involved debugging and fixing issues in existing code, specifically related to submissions, groupings, and annotations, with changes made to several files within the app/models and app/views directories. The commits show modifications to existing features, bug fixes, and refactoring of code to improve functionality and address specific issues related to group submissions and user interfaces. They also made modifications to the configuration files.
git-repositorymarkdownmarkus
baadshah02/WordPress
Apr 2019 - Jul 2019
WordPress, Git-ified. Synced via SVN every 15 minutes, including branches and tags! This repository is just a mirror of the WordPress subversion repository. Please do not send pull requests. Submit patches to https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ instead.
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
branchessubversionwordpresssvnsubmit
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