Jigar Wala
Software Engineer at Siena AI
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
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Top SchoolJigar Wala is a software engineer with 9 years of experience building cloud-native infrastructure and SDKs, currently shaping product engineering at Siena AI after impactful stints on Percy at BrowserStack. He has led SDK squads, re-architected rendering pipelines, and driven Kubernetes and cost-optimization initiatives that saved the company thousands annually while improving availability and deploy times. Comfortable across backend services, infra (AWS, GCP, EKS), and developer tooling, he also mentors juniors and has lectured on Spring Framework topics. An avid learner and open-source contributor, he enhanced the popular Poiji Excel-to-Java library by adding row-limit functionality and robust test coverage. Based in Mumbai, he combines hands-on coding with stakeholder communication to turn operational complexity into dependable, scalable products.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology - BTech Information Technology, Bachelor of Technology - BTech Information Technology at KJ Somaiya College of Engineering, VidyaviharSSC, SSC at Mahindra AcademyHSC Science, HSC Science at Mithibai College of Arts Chauhan Institute of Science and A.J. College of Commerce and Economics
English, Hindi, Gujarati, Marathi
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (16)
apache-poi10
mappings10
javas10
excel10
java10
parserator9
unit-testing9
parser9
deserialization9
git6
arraylist6
logfile6
java-annotations6
python6
annotations6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
ozlerhakan/poiji
Oct 2019 - Oct 2019
:candy: A library converting XLS and XLSX files to a list of Java objects based on Apache POI
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 3 PRs, 17 comments in 8 days
Contributions summary:Jigar primarily focused on enhancing the functionality of the `poiji` library. Their contributions include implementing a row limit feature, allowing users to specify the number of rows to be read from Excel files, and fixing a bug related to the limit when no limit was provided. The user made code adjustments in the `PoijiHandler`, `HSSFUnmarshaller`, `XSSFUnmarshaller` and `PoijiOptions` classes. Several test cases were added and updated to validate the new limit functionality.
datajava-objectspoijiconvertingpoi
itsjwala/dotfiles
Jan 2018 - Apr 2020
Contributions:4 PRs, 26 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 3 months
dotfilesvimubuntu
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