Vishal Parakh
Software Engineer Lead at Optum
Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Summary
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Top SchoolVishal Parakh is a software engineering lead with 12 years of experience building full-stack web applications and backend systems across healthcare, conversational AI, and enterprise platforms. He has progressed from hands-on development roles at TCS to senior engineering positions at Yellow.ai and Publicis Sapient, and now leads engineering efforts at Optum where he focuses on delivering impactful healthcare solutions. Comfortable across APIs, backend services and deployment pipelines, he has domain experience in travel, transport and utilities and has explored big data technologies like Hadoop. Beyond coding, he brings people and project management experience through long-term NGO involvement that sharpened his communication and stakeholder skills. Known for steady career progression and a continuous learning mindset, he combines practical engineering with a knack for translating complex requirements into reliable production systems.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Academy of Technology, West BengalB.TECH IN ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATION, Electronics and Communications Engineering, B.TECH IN ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATION, Electronics and Communications Engineering at Academy of Technology
Github Skills (6)
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
cojen/TuplNative
Mar 2014 - Nov 2014
Contributions:33 commits in 8 months
vishalparakh/this-week-in-rust
Aug 2021 - Aug 2021
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Contributions:7 pushes in 3 days
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