Dipesh Khakhkhar

About Dipesh Khakhkhar

Over 24+ years of total software product development experience and currently working as a Sr. Staff Software Engineer at Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies• More than 5 years of experience in managing teams, hiring and mentoring software engineers.• Strong knowledge of Software as a Vehicle Infrastructure, Service (SaaS) Architecture, Event Driven Architecture, Big Data & Analytics, Columnar Databases, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), OO design and analysis, design patterns, scalable systems, agile methodologies • Good domain knowledge in the areas of Vehicle Infrastructure (in vehicle ECU to Cloud platform), EV Charging, OCPP, OCPI, Payment Terminal (Credit Card reader) Firmware OTA, Energy Management, Small Business Accounting, Invoice Management, Hadoop and Databases, Business Intelligence & Enterprise Reporting, Analytics, Hardware Diagnostics, IT Asset Management and Offshore Software Development practice.• Deep development skills in multiple programming languages, particularly Golang, Java, C/C++, and databases and strong knowledge of Spring framework technologies.• Actively involved in all phases of SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle). • Excellent leadership & mentoring skills, proficiency in hiring engineers and building highly productive teams and helping them grow, design and develop software, features and services to stimulate organization’s growth.• Excellent Oral and Written Communication skills. • Proactive, always willing to take over higher responsibility and task ownership.Specialties: Programming: Golang,Java, Rust, C, C++,SQLRDBMS: Databases(Oracle, MySQL, Ingres, Vectorwise, ParAccel, Firebird, Postgres, and DB2)Domain: Vehicle Platform, EV Charging, OCPP, OCPI, Accounting - Invoice/Bill/Estimates, Big Data - Spark, Hadoop (YARN, Map Reduce, HDFS ), Hive, Oozie, Hue etc. Business Intelligence, Enterprise Reporting, Computer Diagnostics, IT Asset ManagementCloud: AWS - S3, SNS, MKS, EKS, Route53, ElastiCache, RDS, DynamoDB, Lambda, SQS, IoT, APIGateway,Framework: Spring Framework - Spring Data JPA, Spring Batch, Spring Boot, Spring Integration, Spring Configuration, Spring Cloud, Spring MVC, Kafka, NATSInfrastructure: Kubernetes, Docker, ArgoCD, TerraformOthers: SalesForce, Design Patterns, Agile Software Development, SCRUM, Kanban

Experience

1. Sr Staff Engineer

   Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies

   Dec 2024 — Present · Palo Alto, CA, US

   Developing real-time infrastructure to support 100K+ connected cars, enabling messaging between vehicles and cloud at scale.• Collaborating with Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies to drive innovation in automotive technology.

Education

• Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology

  Bachelors, Electronics Engineering

  1996 — 2000

• Syracuse University

  Masters, Computer Engineering

Skills

• C++
• Birt
• Saas
• Pl/Sql
• Hardware Diagnostics
• Xml
• Rest
• Php
• Firebird
• Design Patterns
• Python
• Ansible
• Hue
• Junit
• Enterprise Software
• Hadoop
• C
• Programming
• Ajax
• Amazon Web Services (Aws)
• Sql
• Perl
• Databases
• Business Intelligence
• IT Asset Management
• Web Applications
• Agile Methodologies
• Postgresql
• Object Oriented Design
• Big Data
• Mysql
• Distributed Systems
• Hive
• Oozie
• Soap
• Hdfs
• Vectorwise
• Web Services
• Soa
• Rackspace Cloud