Krunal Thakkar Email & Phone Number

Atlanta, Ga, Us

Carlsbad, California, United States

Greater Atlanta Area

Transforming the automotive retail buying experience by building the Cox Automotive's Digital Retailing Platform.Working closely with the product and development team to help achieve the vision of "buying and selling the cars online by 2020". • Leading a scrum team of 6 engineers to build Digital Retailing (DR) Solution• Build three teams in my time at Cox; mentoring & grooming of team members andhelping them grow in their career• Team is responsible for the crucial payment services that powers DR and shopper entrypoint into the DR experience. Both products get 1.5M impressions a day.• Working with AWS Cloud team at Cox to replace micro-services with serverless technology• Improving the payments for accuracy, availability and performance. Some of the stepsinvolved working with external API teams, adding intermediate solutions, better errorhandling and reporting, use of cache.• Pushing the company towards CI/CD pipeline; adding checks and steps to executetests along the way for better quality output.• Leveraging monitoring, logging and alerting tools like New Relic, Splunk to analyze the health of the system

Greater Atlanta Area

CNNgo (http://www.cnn.com/go)Links:• http://www.cnn.com/videos/bestoftv/2014/04/09/promo-experience-cnnx.cnnx• http://variety.com/2014/voices/news/cnngo-app-could-change-future-of-tv-1201324155/• http://www.engadget.com/2014/04/10/cnnx-ipad-app/Responsibilities:• Lead the CNNGo web platform development team consisting of 5 developers and 2 QA from inception to execution. CNNgo allows users to bring the television experience to their favorite devices and also allowing to give full control in users' hands.• Participated in sessions with Product and other stakeholders, UX and various technology teams to polish the requirements and goals; add technical details to user stories and provide technical feedback/feasibility of the features. • As a lead, removed the impediments for the team and improved the team velocity; worked with key stakeholders to address their concerns and modify processes for a win-win situation.• Involved in organizing and running architecture whiteboard sessions; code reviews/guidelines; unit, integration and performance tests preparation with QATechnologies: Node.js, Backbone.js, Express.js, Angular.js, jQuery, SASS, Grunt, dust templates, Flash player and live streaming protocols (HDN2, HDS), MongoDB, CouchDB, HTML5, CSS3CNN Video (http://www.cnn.com/video)• Executed multiple projects single-handed, which includes Facebook Share and Video Player Library, used across cnn.com. • Successfully led the 2012 Presidential Debates project (http://www.cnn.com/debates), which included LIVE simulcast of all debates with cool new features on Home page and Debates page. Third party tools:Facebook, Twitter, SnappyTV, Conviva, FreeWheel, Omniture, Gigya.

* Developed and delivered OpenSocial 0.9 and 1.0 REST APIs for the MySpace Developer Platform. * Built high performance APIs to meet specific requirements of the partners such as Microsoft, HP, Rock You and others.* Published API documentations, SDKs, client samples, blog entries and forum posts. and worked with partners and developers to help them integrate with MySpace Platform.* Deeply involved with design and implementation of User privacy and permissions for apps into the APIs.* Part of a team that implemented Resource Oriented Architecture (ROA) - a stack that hosts all Myspace REST APIs.* Adding new features and fixing issues with JavaScript container that hosts onsite apps on Myspace sites as well as offers JavaScript based APIs to the apps.

* Rich experience with Microsoft Live Gadget framework, gadget development and certification suing JavaScript and tools like Fiddler, Firebug and IE toolbar.* Extensive use of web services including WCF and CSF framework on various projects.* Experience around cloud technologies like Amazon Queue, SimpleDB and Microsoft SSDS.

* Developed and maintained services and the client application for Equity Trading.* knowledge of Order Management and Trading Operations.* Experienced in Equities and Fixed-Income.

Designed, developed, tested and integrated Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) System for chemical industry.Analyzed existing system for Sales and Distribution System (SDS) & Material Management System (MMS) and approved software requirements specifications.

Masters In Computer Science, Computer Science

Project focused courses and Internship were value addition for career growth down the line.

Bachelor Of Engineering In Information Technology

Activities and Societies: * Representative for the division for the event Communiqué 2002, a technical festival, organized.