Viral Thakkar
Software Development Engineer II at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolViral Thakkar is a seasoned backend engineer with a decade of hands-on experience and a proven track record of shipping production services at Wayfair and now AWS. He specializes in backend architecture, REST APIs, and cloud-native deployments, having worked across technologies from NodeJS, PHP, and Java to AWS services like EC2, S3, RDS, and Route 53. Comfortable leading product cycles from concept to launch, he has advanced through successive engineering roles to SDE II while mentoring teams and collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders. His academic work in applied machine learning and a graduate teaching background give him a practical edge in data-driven problem solving and clear technical communication. As a former startup co-founder, he brings an entrepreneurial mindset to product design and reliability considerations. Based in San Jose, he combines solid engineering discipline with curiosity about emerging industry trends and scalable system design.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Information Technology, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Information Technology at Nirma UniversityMaster of Science (MS) Computer Science, Master of Science (MS) Computer Science at University of Houston-Clear Lake
English, Hindi, GujaratiProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
viralthakkar/datastructure
Jan 2024 - Apr 2024
Contributions:27 PRs, 17 pushes, 13 branches in 2 months
viralthakkar/base-model-codeigniter
Aug 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:6 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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