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Sagar Thakkar
Skills

Capabilities, in context.

A skills page is easy to inflate, so this one is deliberately anchored: every capability below maps to systems described in the case studies - trading engines held to p99 commitments, claims platforms under audit, and a 51-agent AI system run in production. Levels mean what they say: expert is where I have been paged at night and fixed it; working knowledge is where I ship carefully with the docs open.

The through-line across all of it is systems that make decisions under load: event-driven backends on Java, Go and Node, Kubernetes and AWS underneath, Postgres and queue-first designs in the middle, and AI agent orchestration on top. The maths section is not decoration - queueing theory, probability and optimisation are what turn "add more workers" into a capacity plan. Each group below links back to the case study where that skill earned its level, so you can judge the claim against the work rather than against a progress bar.

Expert Advanced Intermediate
01
Architecture & Strategy
Microservices Architecture 8y Event-Driven (Kafka, MQTT) 7y AI Agent Orchestration 2y Tech Strategy & Roadmap 10y Cross-Functional Leadership 8y
02
Cloud & DevOps
AWS (EKS, S3, EC2) 6y Docker & Kubernetes 7y CI/CD (Jenkins, GitLab) 7y Terraform 3y
03
Backend
Java (8–21) 10y Spring Boot / Cloud 9y Node.js / NestJS 5y GraphQL / gRPC 4y Reactive (WebFlux) 4y
04
Frontend
Angular (2 → 8+) 6y React / Next.js 4y TypeScript 6y
05
Data
PostgreSQL / MongoDB 8y Redis / Neo4j 4y
06
Security & Compliance
OAuth2 / JWT / Keycloak 6y Compliance (SOC 2, GDPR, PCI-DSS) 3y