Vikas Garg has a diverse work experience spanning over several companies. Their most recent role was as a Lead Software Engineer at Convoke, starting in July 2021. Prior to that, they worked at PowerSchool as a Principal Engineer from March 2021 to July 2021.
Before joining PowerSchool, Vikas held multiple roles at Hobsons. Vikas started as a Software Engineer in May 2013 and was responsible for building a Curriculum based system. Vikas worked on RESTful services using Spring, MySQL, MongoDB, and AngularJS. Over the years, they progressed to become a Senior Software Engineer, Lead Software Engineer, and finally a Principal Software Engineer. Their tenure at Hobsons ended in March 2021.
Vikas also gained experience at Blackboard as a Software Engineer from August 2010 to May 2013. In this role, they handled various responsibilities such as maintenance, new code development, and design. Vikas implemented measures to prevent XSS and XSRF in the system.
Additionally, Vikas worked as a Software Consultant at Chase Bank Inc. for a brief period in June and July 2010. Their earlier experience includes roles at ITSC, UAH as a Graduate Research Assistant and Student Specialist, where they designed and implemented Drupal modules, detected and fixed bugs, and enhanced the search system using various technologies like CSS, HTML, JavaScript, Ajax, and Servlets.
Overall, Vikas Garg has a strong background in software engineering, with expertise in building and maintaining systems, utilizing technologies such as Spring, MySQL, MongoDB, AngularJS, Drupal, and various web development tools.
Vikas Garg completed their primary and secondary education at New Digamber Public School from 1989 to 2004, although no specific degree or field of study information is provided during this time.
Vikas then pursued a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyalaya between 2004 and 2008.
Following that, Vikas obtained a Master's degree in Computer Science from The University of Alabama in Huntsville, which they attended from 2008 to 2010.
In terms of certifications, they obtained the Platform User Technical Certification from Devo in December 2020 and became an AWS Certified Developer – Associate from Amazon Web Services (AWS) in February 2021. It is noted that Vikas also possesses the SCJP certification, although further details about the institution and the year obtained are not given.
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