# Adit Parikh

> Full stack developer specializing in AI integration and backend architecture, based in Reston, Virginia. 6+ years across government platforms, enterprise products, and AI startups, with production systems used by millions.

## Pages
- [Home](https://speaktoadit.com): Overview, career timeline, and personal story.
- [Resume](https://speaktoadit.com/resume): Full work history and skills (PDF viewer).
- [Chat](https://speaktoadit.com/chat): Ask an AI assistant trained on Adit's background, projects, and story.
- [Gallery](https://speaktoadit.com/gallery): Photos from Jeep builds, a solar-powered trailer, and life on the road.
- [Privacy](https://speaktoadit.com/privacy): What happens to messages and contact details submitted on this site.
- [Study Guides](https://speaktoadit.com/study-guides): Interactive, self-contained explainers on engineering topics.

## Experience
- Lean Innovation Labs (2026 - Present): Building AI applications for enterprise and government clients. Currently developing a platform that automates website testing.
- Capgemini (Nov 2022 - Mar 2025): Lead developer for three enterprise clients (Unilever, Nike, and CVS), owning delivery from design to production.
- Booz Allen Hamilton (Jan 2019 - Nov 2022): Full stack and data engineering across three government platforms: disaster relief, federal spending, and a classified intelligence data lake.
- Santander (May 2015 - Sep 2015): Data engineering internship.
- Virginia Tech (2014 - 2018): B.S. in Computer Science from the College of Engineering.

## Study Guides
- [OAuth 2.0 + PKCE, end to end](https://speaktoadit.com/study-guides/oauth-pkce): An interactive, build-it-up walkthrough of the Authorization Code flow with PKCE - a live system map, the message-by-message sequence, and real in-browser crypto (PKCE challenges, JWT decoding, hashing vs encryption), through tokens, storage, and refresh rotation.
- [From HTML to Hydration: SPA, SSR, SSG, and everything between](https://speaktoadit.com/study-guides/rendering-spectrum): A build-it-up tour of the rendering spectrum: traditional multi-page HTML, the SPA model, hydration, SSR, SSG, and hybrid/islands rendering. Covers where React, Next.js, Create React App, and Vite actually sit on that line, how webpack and bundlers fit underneath it all, and a hands-on timeline comparing where each strategy spends its time.

## Skills
- Languages: Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, Java, SQL, C#
- Frameworks: React.js, Next.js, FastAPI, Django, Node.js, GraphQL, PySpark, Angular, Spring Boot, .NET Core
- Infrastructure: AWS, Azure, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform

## Contact
- Email: speaktoadit@gmail.com
- GitHub: https://github.com/speaktoadit
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adit96/