Alay C Parikh

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About Alay C Parikh

Over 5+ years of professional experience in the IT Industry with strong hands-on analysis, design, and development of enterprise applications using Python, Java and AWS services like Serverless, lambda, dynamodb, EC2, Kinesis, SQS, SNS, S3. Strong experience in software development in Event-driven Asynchronous Python (libraries used: AsyncIO, aiohttp, aiobotocore, boto3, Beautiful Soup, Matplotlib, Numpy, Pandas data frame, network, urllib2, aiobotocore for database connectivity) and IDEs - Atom, PyCharm, Sublime text, Eclipse. Extensive experience in JAVA/J2EE technologies like Core Java, Servlets, JSP, JSTL, JDBC, Hibernate, Spring, Struts, Web Services, JMS, multi-threading, MVC architecture, and Design Patterns. Extensive experience working with AWS Kafka as a distributed messaging system. Equipped with the knowledge of various software, organizing technical demonstrations with sound understanding and skill of creating new software & systems, designing, analyzing, testing, database development, and coding for modules while structuring customized solutions to meet customer’s specific needs. using RESTful endpoints, returning JSON responses. Expertise in practicing the SDLC models, agile methods with Scrum, Extreme Programming, and Ticketing systems using JIRA and Test-Driven Development (TDD). Experienced in developing web-based applications using Python, Django, XML, CSS, HTML, JavaScript, JQuery, Bootstrap, and RESTful. Experienced with JSON-based REST and Amazon Web services. Experience with SOAP web services and REST web services. Implemented responsive web pages using HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, and XML/JSON. Experience implementing version control software like Git and TFS. Working knowledge in UNIX and Linux shell environments using command line utilities. Experienced in performing Web Scraping using python libraries like Beautiful Soup. Experienced with bug-tracking tools like Rally, JIRA. Worked on Jenkins continuous integration tool for deployment of the project. Good understanding of Python Best Practices (PEP-8). Experience with different IDEs like JetBrains PyCharm, spyder, Jupyter Notebook, and Visual Studio. Worked on Several deployment tools using AWS, Jenkins, and CircleCI. Familiarity with development best practices such as code reviews, unit testing, system integration testing (SIT), and user acceptance testing (UAT). Expertise in performing Unit testing using the PyTest framework and Test Automation using Robot Framework.