Nirav Parikh

Nirav Parikh started their work experience as a Systems Engineer Trainee at Infosys from January 2010 to May 2010. After that, they worked as a Senior Software Engineer at Infosys from July 2010 to December 2013, where they were involved in developing and maintaining an application for The Boeing Company. Nirav then joined Cognizant as a Senior Associate in December 2013, specializing in Java/J2EE technologies and open source frameworks like Spring. At Cognizant, they gained experience in building backend APIs following microservice architecture principles and working with Kafka architecture and its various components. Nirav is currently working at InfraCloud Technologies as a Cloud Native Product Engineer from September 2021 onwards.

Nirav Parikh completed their Bachelor of Science (B.S.) degree in Computer Science from Stanes higher secondary school between 1992 and 2006. Following this, they pursued a Bachelor of Engineering (BE) degree in Computer Engineering from Karunya University between 2006 and 2010.

In addition to their formal education, Nirav Parikh has obtained various certifications. Nirav received the CutShort Certified HTML/CSS - Basic, CutShort Certified Javascript - Advanced, and CutShort Certified Java - Advanced certifications from CutShort in July 2021. Nirav also obtained the Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals certification from Microsoft in February 2021. Prior to that, they completed the Microsoft Azure - Beginner's Guide course from Udemy in September 2020. In July 2020, they completed both the Apache Kafka Series - Kafka Connect Hands-on Learning and Apache Kafka Series - Kafka for Beginners courses from Udemy. Furthermore, they obtained the AZ-304 Microsoft Azure Architect Design certification from Microsoft in July 2021.

It is worth mentioning that Nirav Parikh has also completed the Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions course from Microsoft, although the specific timing of this certification is not provided.