Viraaj Navalekar
Staff Software Engineer at Qualtrics
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolViraaj Navalekar is a Staff Software Engineer in Seattle with 11 years of experience building data-intensive web applications and platform services at companies like Facebook, Snowflake, and now Qualtrics. He specializes in front-end engineering for complex analytics and monitoring tools (React, GraphQL/Relay, Redux) while also having deep backend experience with Java, Spring, Solr, and cloud migrations. At Facebook he delivered interactive visualizations for large-scale product and infrastructure data, and at Germin8 he managed terabytes of indexed data and AWS migrations—demonstrating comfort with both UX complexity and heavy-duty data infrastructure. His career shows a consistent thread of bridging technical implementation and product needs, often owning end-to-end solutions from API to UI. Having completed a Master’s in Computer Science from Arizona State University, he brings both formal training and practical experience across startups and hyperscale environments. Colleagues would note his blend of front-end polish and backend rigor, plus a knack for translating operational constraints into robust engineering outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Computer Science, Master’s Degree Computer Science at Arizona State UniversityBachelor of Engineering Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering Computer Engineering at University of Mumbai
Gujarati, Marathi, Hindi, English
Github Skills (3)
use-http9
cpp7
http-server7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
hdamania/cse591-project
Apr 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:12 pushes in 22 days
viraajn/recipes
May 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:2 PRs, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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