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In my last two roles I’ve worked primarily as a Full Stack Java developer on product teams of 6–10 engineers. On the backend, I’ve focused on Java 11–17 with Spring Boot and Spring Cloud, building RESTful microservices and a few event-driven services using Kafka. I’m very comfortable with JPA/Hibernate, Redis for caching, and relational databases like PostgreSQL and MySQL, including query optimization and designing schemas for high-traffic use cases. I’ve also worked with MongoDB where we needed flexible document models. On the frontend side, I’ve mostly used React with TypeScript, Redux Toolkit (or React Query), and component libraries like Material-UI. For build and tooling, I’ve used Webpack, Vite in newer projects, Babel, Jest/React Testing Library, and Cypress for end-to-end tests. CI/CD-wise, I’m used to Maven/Gradle builds feeding into Jenkins or GitHub Actions, packaging services as Docker images and deploying to Kubernetes-based environments.
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Based on your hydrology and irrigation engineering background, explain how you would estimate the irrigation water requirement for a kharif crop in a semi-arid region of Gujarat. Walk me through each step: from reference evapotranspiration estimation, crop coefficient selection, effective rainfall calculation, to arriving at canal discharge for a given command area.
In your civil engineering studies, what specific design coursework or project work did you complete related to irrigation channels or canals (e.g., design of lined/unlined canals, distributaries, minors)? Describe one such design in detail, including how you determined discharge, permissible velocity, section dimensions, and lining choice for Gujarat-type soil and climate conditions.
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