Parth Kanakiya
Software Engineer at Amazon
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolParth Kanakiya is a Full-Stack Software Engineer based in New York with nine years of professional experience and a strong track record across cloud, data, and web platforms. Currently at Amazon, he has previously driven performance and cost-saving engineering at GE—building full-stack tools, optimizing ETL pipelines, and migrating Spark jobs to SingleStore on AWS. His academic background includes a 4.0 MS in Computer Science from NC State and a bachelor’s in ICT, and he has practical research experience building custom OpenEdx XBlocks and ML tutoring pipelines. An active open-source contributor, Parth fixed security and UI issues in the widely used OpenMRS legacy UI during Google Summer of Code, blending backend Java work with front-end JSP/JS fixes. He combines system-level performance tuning with user-facing UX improvements, and often reduces deployment or training times through code and infrastructure changes. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic engineering that bridges data, backend services, and polished front-end experiences.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, 4.0, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, 4.0 at North Carolina State UniversityBachelor's degree, ICT with minors in Computational Science, Bachelor's degree, ICT with minors in Computational Science at Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication TechnologyHigher Secondary School, Mathematics, Higher Secondary School, Mathematics at PACE Junior Science College
English
Github Skills (9)
javas10
openmrs10
java10
ui-design9
javascript9
uid9
jspx8
jsp8
front-end-development8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
openmrs/openmrs-module-legacyui
Apr 2021 - Jul 2021
The legacy user interface for OpenMRS Platform 2.x is chiefly comprised of administrative functions and the patient dashboard. Apparently, a new and more contemporary UI has been introduced via a UI framework and the legacy UI is kept around for administrative functions that are not yet implemented in the new UI. To retire the Legacy UI as planned, it is required to move the implementations and modules that still rely on it in order to maintain backwards compatibility. The main idea behind this project is to move legacy UI functions into an OpenMRS module that these implementations can install until they are able to migrate away from it, since most of the implementations of OpenMRS around the world are running OpenMRS 1.9.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 9 commits, 12 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Parth primarily contributed to the legacy user interface of the OpenMRS module. Their work focused on fixing bugs, updating UI elements, and modifying DWR services. They addressed various issues related to the front-end, including changes in JSP files and JavaScript files, while also incorporating backend modifications. Furthermore, the user improved the application by adding escaping HTML functions and modifying code according to specific project tickets.
backward-compatibilityopenmrsui-framework
Parth59/ItemStockTracker
Dec 2021 - Jan 2026
Contributions:13 PRs, 22 pushes, 22 branches in 4 years 2 months
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