Summary
Vijay Kumbhani is a Staff Engineer based in San Diego with 12 years of hands-on experience specializing in C, C++ and Visual C++ development for Windows environments. He has spent the bulk of his career at Qualcomm, advancing through roles from Software Engineer to Staff Engineer while improving and maintaining mission-critical tools like QPST and PDC used by Snapdragon and modem customers. Vijay combines deep systems-level expertise (COM, MFC, Win32, sockets) with practical automation and performance optimization skills, having built automation frameworks and command-line tooling that improved engineering and customer workflows. His background includes making legacy drivers and ODBC interfaces robust and secure, including work on QODBC with SQLCipher for encrypted databases. Colleagues rely on him for complex bug fixes, feature design, and code reviews across long-lived codebases where stability and backward compatibility matter. He brings a pragmatic engineering mindset that favors measurable performance gains and durable solutions over quick fixes.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Science at Bhagwan Mahavir Colleges
Primary And Secondary Mix Stream, Primary And Secondary Mix Stream at Swaminarayan gurukul Kandari
H.S.C Science Stream (Mathematics), H.S.C Science Stream (Mathematics) at priyadarshini vidyalaya
English, Hindi, Gujarati