Vijay Arun Kathare is a seasoned software engineering professional with extensive experience in various technical roles. Since May 2019, Vijay serves as Chief Software Engineer at EPAM Systems and concurrently holds the position of Technical Architect at Evoke Technologies, beginning in March 2018. Previously, Vijay worked as an Associate Consultant at CGI from May 2016 to February 2018, and as Principal Member of Technical Staff at Oracle from April 2013 to April 2016, specializing in JVM Tuning and Garbage Collection. Vijay's career also includes significant contributions as an Application Architect at Cognizant Technology Solutions from September 2010 to March 2013, where projects for Ameriprise Financial were engineered, and earlier roles as a Programmer Analyst and Associate at Cognizant from August 2006 to April 2010. Vijay holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Applications and completed early education at Balaji High School and Sri Sai Public School.