Kunal Kapadia

5.0

(44 reviews)

US$20.00

For every 15 mins

Sessions/Jobs

ABOUT ME

Gopher, Ex Microsoft, Senior Software Engineer - Backend, Distributed Systems

• Software Engineer with 8+ years of startup experience. Love building things from ground up. Believe in TDD. Biased towards code readability.
• Have good understanding and experience in server-side development - Architecting highly reliable, scalable & maintainable distributed systems.
• Good hold over Data Structures and Algorithms. Reads actively on Database, Microservice, High level architecture design and scalability concepts. Was involved in Competitive Programming - Spoj, CodeChef and TopCoder.
• Enthusiastic about new cutting edge technologies, exploring Blockchain recently
• Github profile: http://github.com/kunalkapadia

• Skills:
Languages: Go, Node, Python
Web Frameworks: Gin, Hapi, Express, Flask
Cache: Redis
RDBMS Database: MySQL
NOSQL Database: MongoDB, DGraph
Embedded Database: BoltDB
Message Queues: Amazon SQS
Source Code Management: Git
CI (Continuous Integration) Servers : TeamCity, GoCD
Devops: Docker, Kubernetes, AWS
Database Analytics: Periscope, Redash

English

Mumbai (+05:30)

Joined July 2016

EXPERTISE

5 years experience

Have been working actively in Go since 5 years.

Go Concurrent ProgrammingChi

Go Concurrent ProgrammingChiGin

Distributed Systems Engineering

6 years experience

Go Microservices Docker

Go Microservices Docker Kubernetes

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C++STL Data structure

Data structure

7 years experience

Binary search trees C++Sort

Binary search trees C++Sort Tree Hash Linked list Dynamic Programming Recursion

REVIEWS FROM CLIENTS

5.0

(44 reviews)

Niles Miller

October 2016

Worth all the time! If you are stuck don't hesitate to ask him. Also if you have little background on a certain topic he will help you and walk you through to make sure you don't leave still confused

PJC

October 2016

Fantastic tutor. Really helped me understand my lab.

Aaron Crane

September 2016

Kunal is knowledgable and thorough. His help is more than I could have asked for, and much more than I had expected.

Aaron Crane

September 2016

Kunal is more than helpful. Extremely knowledgable, and thorough in all of his help. Explanations are clear and understandable.

Brian Koech

September 2016

Helped me in getting more insight about how NodeJs applications work, how to optimise an app and get real time analytics on how my api's are performing. Gave really good advice on learning and growing as a developer. Shared great resources that would aid towards better learning.

Terry Bu

September 2016

Very good. Very professional and patient.

Robert Friedman

September 2016

He explains the concepts very well and takes time to make sure that questions have been answered sufficiently. He understands Javascript very well.

Brian Koech

September 2016

Understands Node.Js really well and best practises around it. Helped me set up git hooks to enforce rules that would guide teams and code refactoring to suite best practises.

August 2016

Excellent knowledge of Javascript/Node and good communicator.

August 2016

Excellent refactoring session. Helped setup Code Coverage.

SOCIAL PRESENCE

GitHub

express-mongoose-es6-rest-api

:collision: A boilerplate application for building RESTful APIs Microservice in Node.js using express and mongoose in ES6 with code coverage and JsonWebToken Authentication

JavaScript

2434

638

pluralsight-redux-starter

JavaScript

Stack Overflow

2213 Reputation

EMPLOYMENTS

Software Development Engineer

Microsoft

2013-06-01-2014-08-01

Worked in Data Protection Manager Team

PROJECTS

WazirXView Project

2018

Build Cryptocurrency exhange from scratch with a team of total 7 engineers, out of which 3 were in backend (including myself)

Distributed Systems Engineering