Jigar Dafda

Meet Jigar Dafda, a software industry expert with over 8 years of experience, who has worked with startups as well as large companies. Jigar currently works as a Principal Software Architect at Shopsense Fynd, where he manages a team of over 50+ engineers and is responsible for the development and maintenance of major user-facing parts of Fynd - Mobile Applications, Website, Backend, Cart, Affiliates Integrations with third parties, and Infrastructure.

Jigar's technical leadership and mentorship skills have played a vital role in solving complex problems daily. He spends more than 40% of his daily time in coding and sticking to his software engineering roots. He is proficient in building and managing highly scalable infrastructure with Kubernetes, Kafka, DevOps, AWS, and GCP. Furthermore, his rule book consists of Clean Coding, Test/Behaviour Driven Development, Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery (CI/CD), and Agile/Scrum Methodologies.

Jigar's professional experience includes working in domains such as E-commerce, Media and Entertainment, Affiliate Marketing, Cart and Payment, Social Collaboration, and Information Security. He has also worked as a Web Team Lead at Shopsense Fynd, Software Engineering Consultant at Autodesk, Development Engineer at Imaginea Technologies Inc., and Associate Software Engineer at Kore Inc.

Jigar's educational background consists of SSC - CBSE, PMCB at J.N.V. Kodinar and Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Engineering at National Institute of Technology Surat.

To know more about Jigar Dafda and his work, visit his StackOverflow profile, npmjs, and GitHub accounts.