# Ushang Thakker

> Staff Software Engineer at Palo Alto Networks

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/ushang

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Palo Alto Networks
Jan 2024 – Present | Santa Clara, California, United States

### Lead Software Engineer @ Nike
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Senior Software Engineer II @ Granular
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco, California

### Senior Software Engineer @ Granular
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco, California, United States

### Software Engineer ll @ Granular
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco, California

### Software Engineer @ Granular
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco, California

### Founder @ SmartSoftwares
Jan 2011 – Jan 2018 | Mumbai Area, India
- Developed a web portal for a private firm to manage their business using CodeIgniter framework.
- Developed CMS websites in WordPress for multiple companies to showcase their business and products.
- Designed & developed an ecommerce website solution to sell online greeting cards using PHP & MySQL.
- Developed India’s first review based site for coaching classes using PHP & MySQL.

### Cloud Software Engineer Co-op @ New York Life Insurance Company
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Greater New York City Area
- Successfully initiated CI/CD pipeline using Travis CI and served web portals on Amazon S3.
- Designed & developed insurance as a service platform (IAAS) using Angular 2, Prime NG, Express & Sequelize ORM.
- Leveraged amazon services like Lambda, Amazon Aurora, Dynamo DB, API gateway, IoT, S3 & Cognito to create backend services for insurance platform on the cloud.
- Developed business website for ventures division using Adobe Experience Manager & WordPress.

### Full Stack Developer Intern @ McKinsey & Company
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016
- Developed a portal using SAILS framework to help staffing needs of the firm.
- Prototyped a web app for Physicians and a hybrid mobile app for patients for a Durham based pharmaceutical company using Node.js, React and Webpack.
- Created unit tests for the prototypes using the Jest and end to end tests using Mocha.
- Successfully deployed the prototypes to alpha, beta and production spokes using Docker containers with Cirle CI and Quay repositories.

### Software Developer @ Neebal Technologies
Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 | Powai
- Designed and developed OkSir an Android application & a website that brings service vendors to provide end users with different day to day needs using PHP with CodeIgniter using HMVC, jQuery and AJAX.
- Led the development of a portal to plot the actual against the planned route of the employees using GPS location in real time on Google Maps using Node.js, Socket.io, Express, MongoDB.
- Collaborated with a team to develop a web portal for showing reports in various forms like bar graphs, line charts, pie diagrams of agro chemical market estimation using PHP with CodeIgniter, MySQL, jQuery & amCharts.
- Initiated development using the relatively new Apache Cordova framework to build a mobile application for both iOS and Android platforms for managers to approve travel requests of their employees.
- Published the application E-Alert on Google play and iTunes that has a panic button which allows the user to send text message with your current location to your emergency contacts using Apache Cordova.
- Designed UI for an iOS application for a company’s employees to manage their sales & expense reimbursements.

### Associate Software Engineer @ Accenture
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013
Created test cases, prepared test data, executed test cases, logged & retested defects for Volkswagen House of After Sales, Germany using HP application Life Cycle Management software.


## Education
### Master’s Degree in Computer Science
Northeastern University

### Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) in Computer Engineering
Thakur College of Engineering & Technology

### St. Xaviers Boys Academy, Chucrchgate


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ushangthakker

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Source: https://flows.cv/ushang
JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/ushang/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-03-29