Samay Thakkar (@samay-thakkar)

Samay Thakkar

CEO, Calidad Infotech LLP

Samay Thakkar is CEO of Calidad Infotech LLP, a Software Quality Assurance company based out of Ahmedabad. He worked across different companies in Delhi NCR and Ahmedabad like Hughes Systique, Publicis Sapient and S&P Global before starting his own firm.

The inspiration to start a firm lies in analysing the software quality issues faced by the companies and to find out a way to solve those. There was a trend which was identified that the companies, especially startups, not focusing more on Quality Assurance due to various reasons such as budget constraints, multi-tasking teams, priority to development, lack of understanding etc.

Calidad is trying to solve the above issues by connecting with startups, understanding their points and trying to come up with optimum solutions for same.

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Mar

21

Sat

AI, Product & Women who Ship : Ahmedabad

Venue will be shared with confirmed guests.

4:00pm — 06:00pm

Mar

21

Sat

Building Startup Teams and Company Culture : Ahmedabad Edition

iHub Gujarat

6:00pm — 08:00pm

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