Gaurav Parmar

SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER | India | (+91) 9479988064, 7892722061 | gauravbparmar.official@gmail.com
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Hi there,
I am a passionate "Senior Software Engineer" with 8+ years of full-time industry experience in developing scalable web applications, API development and full-stack web development.

I have 2.5 years of additional remote work experience as a Freelance Full Stack Developer on numerous projects of clients from US, Canada, Egypt and India.

Current Status :
Working with a kick-ass team of developers @ UrbanPiper, Bangalore as a "Senior Software Engineer"

Interest Areas :
Building and architecting large scale and scalable Web Apps, API development, Website Management, Tech Team Management, etc

Skills Summary :
● Web Technology - PHP, NodeJS, Angular(basic), HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery, Bootstrap
● Web Frameworks - Laravel, CakePHP, KoaJS, Express
● DBMS - MySQL, MongoDB(Basic)
● DevOps - Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, Linode
● Test framework - Jest, PHPUnit
● CMS - WordPress, Drupal
● Programming Languages - C++, C (Basic), Java (Basic)
● Others - Redis, RabbitMQ , VCS
● Operating Systems - Linux, Windows

Skills

Technology, Services & Tools
Key Focus Areas
  • API Development for Web and Mobile apps
  • Scalable Web App Development
  • Responsive Web Designing
  • LAMP Backend/Server Management
  • Remote/In-house Team Management

Experience

Senior Software Engineer

UrbanPiper

● Spearheading development efforts on a distinguished SaaS platform tailored for the restaurant industry, operating at a significant scale and encompassing diverse elements.
● Facilitated substantial growth for restaurants of all sizes, from local eateries to global chains, by implementing a centralized system adept at orchestrating various transactions across online, aggregator, and offline channels with finesse.
● Architecting a unified system to streamline the management of online, aggregator, and offline(POS) item catalogues, as well as overseeing item availability and related operations from a singular interface.
● Engineered sophisticated APIs and systems capable of efficiently handling millions of requests per minute with precision and sophistication.

May 2022 - Present

Senior Software Engineer

RoundGlass(Gympik)

● Contributed to the development of a premier software solution for the Indian fitness industry, offering a comprehensive club management platform.
● Implemented intuitive and user-friendly features including member management, innovative workout tracking, advanced business insights and reporting, and automation of marketing and social media endeavours.

May 2020 - May 2022

Senior Software Engineer

Edureka

● Contributed as a member of the Growth Team within an Edutech product-based firm, undertaking full-stack responsibilities encompassing microservices, APIs, website development, and administration panels.
● Engineered and seamlessly integrated a sophisticated Personalization Engine microservice from inception, enabling tailored course recommendations based on user activities. This initiative led to increased course purchases, page engagement, and overall user experience, consequently driving significant revenue growth.
● Developed the backend and frontend components of a webinar discovery and registration page, managing substantial volumes of registrations and webinars directly on the company website. Implemented strategies to enhance page performance, resulting in reduced page load times and database calls through strategic data caching mechanisms.
● Designed and implemented numerous optimized course discovery features, seamlessly integrating them into the legacy system. These enhancements expedited course discovery processes, improved user experience, and contributed to revenue growth.
● Implemented optimizations on various web pages of the company website, resulting in notable improvements in page load speeds, thereby enhancing overall user experience.

Aug 2018 - May 2020

Full Stack Developer

Cosi Games | Trendsetter

● Functioned in a Full-stack capacity within a product-centric organization, overseeing a distributed team of developers.
● Spearheaded the development of sophisticated backend infrastructure, including APIs and an Admin Panel, serving as Software as a Service (SaaS) for a comprehensive mobile survey application. This platform facilitated the collection of audience feedback, enabling companies to assess market viability for potential new products and make informed decisions supported by insightful survey reports, resulting in substantial cost savings.
● Orchestrated the creation of a user-friendly admin panel, granting corporate clients the ability to efficiently manage surveys, reports, user data, and other pertinent information related to surveys conducted through the mobile application.

Jul 2017 - Mar 2018

Full Stack Developer

Banger Tech Pvt Ltd. | Doodhwala

● Contributed to an e-commerce product-oriented company since its inception, playing a pivotal role in conceiving and developing the backend infrastructure for the Doodhwala mobile application from the ground up, subsequently scaling it to accommodate a user base ranging from zero to hundreds of thousands.
● Engineered a system for efficient segregation and management of deliveries, streamlining the assignment process to delivery personnel across various zones, thereby optimizing company expenses.
● Designed and implemented the backend for a mobile application tailored for delivery personnel, facilitating comprehensive tracking and management of product deliveries and statuses. This initiative mitigated product loss and ambiguities in delivery statuses, resulting in substantial cost savings for the company and enhancing customer satisfaction.
● Developed the backend infrastructure for an inventory management mobile application aimed at hubs, enabling efficient tracking of product quantities.
● Spearheaded the integration of several key features within the Doodhwala e-commerce application, including payment systems, wallet functionality, subscription-based delivery models, locality-based product discovery, advanced search filters, and cart management.
● Engineered the company's website and an accompanying Admin Panel, providing comprehensive tools for order management, delivery coordination, product listing, management of delivery personnel, localities, and user data.

Jun 2015 - Jun 2017

Full Stack Developer & Graphic Designer

Freelancer | Elance.com

● Acted as a Freelance Full Stack Developer, crafting and designing diverse websites for a range of clients spanning across global locations including the USA, Canada, Egypt, and India.

Dec 2012 - May 2015

Security Analyst Trainee

Techdefence Pvt. Ltd., Ahmedabad, India

Worked on various hacking and security techniques and tools. Got knowledge about Cyber Security, Cyber Crimes and attacks like - SQLi, XSS etc. and their prevention techniques.

May 2013 - Jul 2013

Full Stack Developer | Trainee

Development Center - IIPS

Volunteer Full Stack Developer at e-governance center (also called Development Center) at IIPS-DAVV, Indore. Worked on projects with teams and collaborated with them using Git and Github.

Dec 2012 - Jan 2014

Education

Master of Technology (M.Tech.)

Information Technology (IT)
International Institute of Professional Studies(IIPS) - DAVV, Indore(M.P.), India

CGPA: 9.48

Jul 2010 - Dec 2015

Higher Secondary School Certificate Examination(10+2)

PCM
Sarafa Vidhya Niketan, Mandsaur(M.P.), India

Percent: 84.6%

Jul 2008 - Apr 2009

Projects

Edureka Website, Admin Panel and APIs | https://www.edureka.co

Edureka

Incorporated many prominent features in Edureka’s website, admin panel and APIs. Helped in optimizing current tech system at various levels. Worked end-to-end from Backend to Frontend on various parts of the Apps.
Tech Stack : CakePHP, Phalcon, PHP, MySQL, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery, Bootstrap, AWS etc.

Trendsetter Web Admin Panel + API Development

Cosi Games | Trendsetter

Developed APIs and sophisticated admin panel for this international project. Trendsetter provides robust mechanism to get fruitful insights of a product for which survey has to be done and enable right decision making based on the statistics generated from the targeted audience’s response.
Tech Stack : Drupal, PHP, MySQL, HTML5, CSS/CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery, Bootstrap, Adobe Photoshop, AWS etc.

Doodhwala Android+iOS App API & Admin Panel

Banger Tech Pvt Ltd. | Doodhwala

Developed backend for this popular ecommerce Android & iOS App from scratch consisting APIs, Admin Panel etc. Doodhwala App provides facility to order and get doorstep delivery of various dairy and daily use items on a subscription basis with easy to manage features and various payment options.
Tech Stack : PHP, MySQL, Linode, HTML5, CSS/CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery, Bootstrap, Adobe Photoshop etc.

Doodhwala website | https://www.doodhwala.com/

Banger Tech Pvt Ltd. | Doodhwala

Developed Doodhwala’s earlier website featuring information about Doodhwala ecommerce product and company.
Tech Stack : PHP, MySQL, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery, Bootstrap, Adobe Photoshop etc.

GToDo | https://gauravparmar.github.io/GToDo/

Freelancer

ADesigned and developed this micro website for personal learning by using AngularJS. This website allows to-do list creation and management. It is open source and available for learning for other developers as one of my Github repository.
Tech Stack : AngularJS, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery, Bootstrap etc.

Healthoholic website

Freelancer

Designed and developed this website for a client. Healthoholic provides a new variety of healthy juices and along with other things.
Tech Stack : PHP, MySQL, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery, Bootstrap, Adobe Photoshop etc.

National Youth Festival 2015 (Pravaah) Web Application | For the year 2015

Freelancer

Freelancing project for Devi Ahilya University(DAVV), Indore. It is a sophisticated and device responsive web application that was used by 70+ universities across India for providing various details about their participants, managers, and accompanists. 900+ registrations took place through this application and it also aided in handling entire festival in a managed way for the very first time as the process was offline earlier.
Tech Stack : PHP, MySQL, HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, JavaScript, Adobe Photoshop, jQuery, and AJAX.

MyPlace | Personal Initiative

Development Center - IIPS

It is my Open Source project which is available on Github. It is a small device responsive web directory for searching places, things, locations etc. with a nifty admin panel which can be expanded as a big website with data about various places (similar to JustDial).
Tech Stack : PHP, MySQL, HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap, JavaScript, Adobe Photoshop, jQuery, and AJAX.

IIPS College Website | For the year 2014

Development Center - IIPS

A device responsive website to represent our college IIPS-DAVV, Indore. It involved the use of PHP, HTML5, CSS, Bootstrap and JavaScript. It also involved the use of Git and Github for collaboration with other team members of Development Center, IIPS.
Tech Stack : PHP, HTML5, CSS, Bootstrap, JavaScript, Git, Github etc.

Global Harmony Fundraising

Freelancer

Freelancing project for a Canadian client to create a webpage to represent Global Harmony Fundraising organization and to offer registration facility. It also involved designing logo and photo collage.
Tech Stack : PHP, HTML5, CSS, Bootstrap, JavaScript, jQuery and Adobe Photoshop

PriceShaved

Freelancer

Freelancing project for a client from the USA. PriceShaved was a discount coupon offering website with a WordPress based Admin Panel having numerous features to manage coupons, users and other data on the website.
Tech Stack : WordPress, Clipper Theme, WordPress Plugins, PHP, HTML5, CSS, JavaScript and Adobe Photoshop.

jQueryGRIT

Development Center - IIPS

This was my proposed project for Google Summer of Code(GSoC) 2015. It aimed at monitoring the health of jQuery’s repositories on Github by tracking open/closed issues, open/closed PRs, issue/PR ages etc. using Github’s API. It is open source and available as my Github repository.
Tech Stack : Github API, JavaScript, jQuery, AJAX, HTML5, CSS, Bootstrap and Adobe Photoshop.

SGcrypter

Development Center - IIPS

It is a device responsive web application which I built for one of my international research paper for analysis of DES, 3DES, Blowfish and Twofish encryption/decryption algorithms by using file size, key size, encryption time and decryption time as parameters and generating graphs for various cases for easy comparison. It is open source and available as my Github repository for the use of other researchers for further research.
Tech Stack : PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Bootstrap, jQuery, JpGraph and Adobe Photoshop.

Certification

Certified Cyber Security Expert (CCSE) v2.0

TechDefence Pvt. Ltd., Ahmedabad, India

Score : 90%

May 2013 - Jul 2013

Publications

  • Gaurav Parmar and Dr. Kirti Mathur, “Proposed Preventive Measures and Strategies Against SQL Injection Attacks”, Indian Journal of Applied Research(IJAR), Vol. 5, Issue 5, pp. 716-718, May 2015, ISSN - 2249-555X
  • Gaurav Parmar, Shaligram Prajapat and Ramjeevan Singh Thakur, "Towards investigation of efficient cryptosystem using SGcrypter", International Conference on Computing Paradigm (ICCP) 2015 and International Journal of Applied Engineering Research (IJAER), Volume 10, Number 79 (2015), pp.853-858

Achievements

  • 1st Place - College topper in M.Tech. with gold medal and 9.48 CGPA.
  • 1st Place - “Student Project Competition” organized under e-Kumbh’14 by Scientech Technologies Pvt. Ltd., Indore.
  • Won many prizes in the national level techfest “Citronics” held at CDGI, Indore in software project competition and website designing competition.
  • Won many prizes in website designing, coding and other technical events organized under the techno-management fest “Xpressions” held at IIPS-DAVV, Indore by leading the team in technical pavilion.
  • Honored once as “Best Student of The School” by Rotary Club, Mandsaur.
  • Won one national level and many district level prizes in various painting competitions and have been awarded for winning painting competitions by M.P. Green Productivity Association, Swaraj Sansthan Sanchalnalay (cultural dept. of M.P. govt.), Collector of Mandsaur(M.P.), Mandsaur police etc.

Interests

Apart from being a Full Stack Developer, I am an artist and like to sketch. I also like to watch Sci-Fi movies and eat different types of food. I enjoy most of my time exploring the latest technology advancements in the web development world.