Jigar Gosar

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A self-proclaimed kick-ass programmer, who has loved practicing the gratifying art of transforming ideas into applications for over 15+ years.

He is in love with IntellijIdea, Java, MEAN stack, Heroku, and GitLab.

Has gained expertise in:

Java, Guice, Git, Node.js, AngularJS, Mina, Multi-Threading and Concurrency, HTML, CSS, JavaScript.

Has practical working knowledge of:

PostgreSQL, MySQL, ElasticSearch, Mongo

He is a curious avid learner:

Scala, Clojure, Spring, Hibernate, JMS - ActiveMq/Camel, Eclipse, leap motion, Google cardboard, augmented reality, game engines, piano (synth), guitar, card tricks... And countless more.

* Designed and Developed an XMPP chat server from scratch and leading a team of 4 for the same project.

* Collaboratively introduced and practiced refactoring techniques to make legacy code maintainable.

* Developed a Ruby On Rails application for self, called

* SimpleGTD which currently has 200 active users. (19320 total registrations and 348117 total tasks, and a tiny source of revenue)

* Have spent 5 years professionally programming in Java, web as well as standalone applications.

* Strong affinity towards Ruby and Scala.

* Self-taught: Ruby, Rails, HTML, CSS and JavaScript (thanks to SimpleGTD and all other pet projects that never saw light of the day)