Jimit Patel
Lead Software Engineer
Kalyan
Summary
I am a proven versatile Software Engineer professional with 12+ years of experience in software development and a certified Data Scientist . Currently, I work as a Lead Software Engineer at Mastercard Inc., where we are zealous on formulating and delivering marketing applications, SDKs, experiences, and components that help in minimizing the cost and development efforts of various projects throughout the Mastercard. Previously, I worked at Stylabs Pvt. Ltd., an e-commerce fashion startup as a Senior Android Engineer where I lead the team of mobile (Android and iOS) and shipped the mobile application on Google's Play Store and Apple's App Store within 3 months and maintained it with around 1.6 lacs users. I have received testimony at work such as: "Jimit has a very sharp learning curve in the whole team and always ready for new challenges." ~V. Sivaraman, I.T. Manager, Smollan Services Pvt. Ltd. "It was one of my great decision to take you on the team." ~M. Pulipaka, Director, Mastercard Inc.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
Work History
Lead Software Engineer
Mastercard
10.2022 - Current
- Architected and Delivered Solutions: Designed and implemented 4 complex, 1 medium, and numerous simple solutions for the MMC application, and 3 simple solutions for the BRAM application, ensuring high-quality, scalable outcomes
- Team Leadership: Successfully led three distinct teams simultaneously in delivering a single application (MMC), overseeing work across diverse technologies including Spring Boot, PostgreSQL, AngularJS, and PowerBI
- Proven Track Record: Achieved a 99% success rate in releasing applications without issues, managing over 60 releases in a span of 2 years
- Mentorship and Development: Mentored junior software engineers, accelerating their growth and readiness for advanced roles and fostering a continuous learning and improvement culture
- Innovative Approaches: Introduced the API-first approach and Hexagonal architecture, significantly improving code quality, and maintainability, and reducing technical debt.
- Reduced system downtime by proactively monitoring performance metrics and applying necessary optimizations or fixes when needed.
Senior Software Engineer
Mastercard
03.2018 - 10.2022
- Proved to be a versatile Software Engineer by demonstrating my skills in technologies, frameworks, and languages like Java, Kotlin, VueJS, AngularJS, JavaScript, Ionic, Shell Scripts, Groovy, etc
- Developed reusable business agnostic as well as business experiences in Android in collaboration, incorporated by other projects in Mastercard, reducing their development time by approximately 60 to 80 hours per experience
- Shipped UI libraries for Android which can help developers to adhere to Mastercard's branding guidelines
- It also contained various complex and composite reusable UI components which can help reduce development time by 10-20 hours for the user
- With team facilitated a tool using Swagger Codegen that can help the user to generate API modules for both Android and iOS, along with a network layer using Mastercard's approved libraries, conserving approximately 20 hours per module
- Volunteered in delivering an SDK that ensures secured payment by playing sonic, deployed across more than 10 countries and counting
- Using mustache (a logic-less template), JavaScript, Groovy, Shell Scripts developed a CLI tool that ensures hassle-free integration of libraries and scaffolding of experiences into a web application, web services, mobile application
- Similarly, for Android, we distributed a plugin that was equivalent to the CLI tool
- Part of multiple POC analysis that required the use of React Native, ReactJs, AngularJs, VueJs, Ionic, Cordova, HTML/CSS
- Was also part of the team for maintaining projects on the wallet which uses AngularJs, VueJs, ReactJs.
Senior Android Engineer
Stylabs
07.2015 - 05.2017
- A fashion startup on mobile where I flourishingly lead the team to develop from scratch and deliver the mobile application StyFi on Play Store and App Store within challenging 6 months
- With help of AI-ML modules developed a system that automatically categorizes the product using the image with 96% accuracy
- Also, developed a system that provides recommendations to users based on their behavior such as previous views, time for which they remain on the screen, purchases, current product at the display
- Revamped entire application with new designs within a quarter and released with a newer version with more than 1.5 lac users.
Android Engineer
Smollan
07.2013 - 07.2015
- Got transferred from Hindustan Unilever Field Services to Smollan after the training period which is its parent company
- Showcased my skills on languages and technologies like Java, Android, .NET, Microsoft SQL Server
- Being a non-IT company, I introduced the Git system to the company which facilitated developers to collaborate and manage different clients easily for the same product with different requirements
- This minimized a substantial amount of effort by roughly 30 hours per release
- Developed semi-offline Android application S.M.A.R.T
- Which influenced more than 10,000 users to use it even at any remote location with least or no network coverage
- Managed the S.M.A.R.T
- Product of Smollan in terms of new developments and changes in Android application to 26 different clients across South East Asia
- Additionally, managed 2 Samsung clients in terms of time and quality delivery
- On multiple occasions, impressed clients by providing extra small goodies into the application which would ease their life of using it
- Mentored 2 trainees who became Android developers.
Self Employed
Self
5 2017 - 3 2018
- Granted consultancy as an architect and planned the application Pet Easy that helped in cost-cutting from 1 million to 700 thousands INR
- As a freelancer developed a reusable and scalable code for an application Reference Link from scratch, using MVP and data-binding techniques.
Software Engineer
Hindustan Unilever Field Services
07.2012 - 07.2013
- Exposure to a Business Analyst role where I automated various reports shrinking generating reports time from 2 days to 30 minutes using Microsoft Excel
- Minimized operations and technology costs from 60 lacs to approximately 1.5 lacs per annum by entering into the unknown field of Android for developing applications and stopped outsourcing to the third party.
Education
Post Graduate Program - Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
The University of Texas at Austin
Post Graduate Program - Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
Great Lakes Institute of Management
Bachelor's of Engineering - Information Technology
Bharati Vidyapeeth
Diploma in Information Technology - Information Technology
Dr. D. Y. Patil Polytechnic, Navi Mumbai
No Degree -
Lourdes High School
Skills
Spring boot
Languages
English
Advanced (C1)
Gujarati
Advanced (C1)
Hindi
Advanced (C1)
Marathi
Intermediate (B1)
Timeline
Lead Software Engineer
Mastercard
10.2022 - Current
Senior Software Engineer
Mastercard
03.2018 - 10.2022
Senior Android Engineer
Stylabs
07.2015 - 05.2017
Android Engineer
Smollan
07.2013 - 07.2015
Software Engineer
Hindustan Unilever Field Services
07.2012 - 07.2013
Self Employed
Self
5 2017 - 3 2018
Post Graduate Program - Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
The University of Texas at Austin
Post Graduate Program - Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
Great Lakes Institute of Management
Bachelor's of Engineering - Information Technology
Bharati Vidyapeeth
Diploma in Information Technology - Information Technology
Dr. D. Y. Patil Polytechnic, Navi Mumbai
No Degree -
Lourdes High School
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