Born and raised in small-town Anjar in Gujarat, currently working at Avesta HQ and Avesta Labs as a Product Engineer and living in Ahmedabad, India.
I got involved in web development after landing my first (also my current) job after college. I was drawn to web technologies because of the vibrant community even back in 2010.
The amount of readily coded stuff the community pushes out is very attractive for a college student building his first website!
Over the years, I have worked across the stack in multiple capacities and technologies, from large-scale web and mobile apps to cloud infrastructure. I have led teams focused on frontend engineering with a strong emphasis on clean code and best practices.
Experience
Being in a small team at Avesta has exposed me to many different parts of building software from the technical perspective.
Over the years I have worked across EdTech, Industrial IoT, and PropTech. I have led modernization initiatives for customers, leading teams of 40+ engineers and contributing across the stack, from architecture and system design to setting best practices for delivery and quality.
Early in my career, I developed web apps with JavaScript frameworks like Ext.JS, and then moved to AngularJS.
With AngularJS I was responsible for setting up the core services layer and frontend architecture used across web projects at the company.
Later I focused on performance across web and mobile apps, improving code quality and speed. (I wrote a small guide for AngularJS 1.x apps at that time.)
In recent years, I have led teams building web and mobile apps with React and React Native. I have also trained teams on getting started with React and setting up best practices. Code reviews are now part of my daily work.
Alongside frontend leadership, I have deployed apps on the cloud using containers, setting up infrastructure and deploying frontend and backend services required to operate at scale.
Today
I currently work as a Product Engineer at Avesta HQ and Avesta Labs.
My role currently involves more of architecting/setting up things and mentoring junior devs, but I am still involved in the day-to-day coding in various capacities.
I started in frontend engineering, but over time I have moved into broader responsibilities across teams, architectures, and business outcomes. I believe AI is a watershed moment for software, changing what we build and how we build it. It is fascinating to see the leverage AI provides in building products, and I am now focused on learning more about what to build rather than only how to build it.
I also have AWS Developer Associate certification, which reflects my production-grade experience with AWS services.
I am currently looking out for speaking opportunities.
Feel free to contact me here for consultancy, writing or speaking inquiries.
About this site
Website theme credits go to Jeremias Menichelli. The look and feel are more or less the same as Jeremias's site, and I loved the minimalistic aesthetic. He has open-sourced his website here.
Built with Eleventy and hosted by Netlify.
The code for this website is open-sourced too, you can check it in this repository.