Ashish Vaghela

Hi, I’m Ashish! 👋

A human based somewhere on Earth. Curious by nature, builder by choice.

When I’m not at my desk, you’ll find me:

  • At meetups & startup events
  • Writing about things I find interesting
  • Making friends with street cats 🐾

Let’s Chat!

Got a cool startup idea? Want to debate ideas? Or just want to send me pictures of street cats? Drop me a line at vaghelaashish111@gmail.com — my inbox is always open. I promise I don’t bite (unless you steal my Chai). ☕

Work

I'm a software engineer with two years of experience building backend services on the JVM, along with the CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation and monitoring that keep them running. I care about reliable releases, reproducible builds, and making life easier for the developers I work with.

Day to day I work with Java, Kotlin, Spring Boot and Quarkus, plus GitHub Actions, Docker and Linux. I work best in remote teams, in the open, with plenty of autonomy.

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Experience

  1. Nov 2024 to presentRemote

    Software Crafter, ChatNCharge

    Client project via Nelkinda Software Craft

    • Built ChatNCharge, which connects EV drivers with private and enterprise charging stations, from scratch in Spring Boot: backend, data model and APIs, through to production.
    • Shipped features quickly with real users and stakeholders in the loop.
    • Mentored junior developers and worked across design, product and engineering.

  2. Sep 2024 to presentRemote

    Software Crafter

    Nelkinda Software Craft

    • Automated build, test and deployment workflows with GitHub Actions and Docker, replacing manual steps.
    • Built an internal service monitoring tool in Quarkus to track reliability and performance across environments.
    • Deployed and operated production services on Linux VPS infrastructure.
    • Owned the Triffuns community platform end to end: architecture, Spring Boot and Thymeleaf implementation with TDD, and a UI redesign driven by user feedback.

  3. Jan 2024 to Jul 2024Ahmedabad, India

    Full Stack Developer Intern

    Greycell Labs

    • Ran a data migration that noticeably improved query performance and retrieval times.
    • Optimised profile updates and list pages to reduce server load.

Open source and community

Outside work I'm a core contributor to AceUnit and ReqCover, maintain my own Sätteri plugins, and help run Open Source Weekend and the Ahmedabad Developer Club.

See my open source work and community rolesMy talks

Skills

CI/CD and releases
GitHub Actions, Docker, Git, Make, npm, JVM build tooling
Infrastructure
Linux, VPS deployment, Docker
Reliability
Service monitoring, Circuit breakers, retries, bulkheads, Performance benchmarking
Languages and frameworks
Java, Kotlin, JavaScript, Spring Boot, Quarkus, React, Thymeleaf
Databases
PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, H2
How I work
TDD, Clean code, Code review, Mentoring, Remote and async

Education

  1. 2022 to 2024

    Master of Computer Applications

    Gujarat University, first class

  2. 2019 to 2022

    Bachelor of Computer Applications

    GLS University, distinction