Jitesh J
Senior Software Engineer II at Nirvana Insurance
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolJitesh J is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience, currently building insurance tech at Nirvana Insurance after a five-year tenure at Amazon where he led backend and marketplace projects using Java, AWS Lambda, AppSync, Step Functions and VPC infrastructure. He combines production-grade backend expertise with full-stack contributions—evidenced by meaningful open-source work on publiclab/plots2 where he fixed cross-browser UI issues, improved drag-and-drop behavior, added DXF support and internationalization. Comfortable shipping end-to-end solutions from infrastructure and security to frontend UX, he has a track record of tackling distributed systems and payment-related problems dating back to his Amazon Pay internship. Based in Bengaluru, he brings a curious, hands-on approach rooted in academic research and community initiatives, and off the clock he’s an avid hiker and paper-model maker who draws creative inspiration from travel.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer Science at Manipal Institute of Technology
English, Hindi, German, Sanskrit
Github Skills (12)
i18n-js10
ruby-rails10
i18next10
rails10
ruby-on-rails10
i18n-node10
javascript9
user-friendly8
collaboration7
enviroment5
environ5
environmental5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
publiclab/plots2
Mar 2016 - Aug 2016
a collaborative knowledge-exchange platform in Rails; we welcome first-time contributors! :balloon:
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:44 PRs, 83 comments, 3 issues in 5 months
Contributions summary:Jitesh contributed to the `publiclab/plots2` repository by implementing frontend and backend changes. They fixed a Safari-related issue in the header layout and made adjustments to the drag-and-drop functionality within the JavaScript files. Additionally, the user added a new file extension option for DXF files and incorporated I18n translations for layouts, including the header and footer, and added translation files. Finally, they updated installation scripts.
railsrubywikipubliclabenvironment
jiteshjha/hello_friend
Oct 2016 - Jan 2017
Contributions:51 commits, 3 pushes in 3 months
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