Tej Thakkar
Software Engineer II at Yahoo
Redmond, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolTej Thakkar is a software engineer with nine years of experience building scalable, production-grade systems across finance and consumer tech, currently working at Yahoo while completing a Master’s in Computer Science at Stony Brook. He has driven infrastructure migrations and automation at JPMorgan Chase—cutting release times by 38% with a Jenkins orchestrator and saving multiple person-days per week by automating deployment workflows—while also contributing to CSR engineering for an NGO. Comfortable across the stack (React, Spring Boot, Kafka, Selenium), Tej combines competitive programming discipline with practical DevOps and backend engineering to deliver measurable operational impact. Based in Seattle, he blends enterprise-level delivery experience with ongoing graduate research and teaching, signaling both technical depth and a commitment to mentoring.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Information Technology, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Information Technology at Bhartiya Vidya Bhavans Sardar Patel Institute of Technology Munshi Nagar Andheri MumbaiMaster's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Stony Brook University
Stackoverflow
201reputation
5kreached
13answers
3questions
Github Skills (7)
apache-poi6
algorithm6
fibonacci6
pseudocode6
greedy6
python6
java6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
tej17/Competitive-Coding
Nov 2018 - Jan 2022
Contributions:49 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 1 month
tej17/Voice-Based-Spotify-Agent
Oct 2022 - Nov 2022
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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