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Jaydeep Vacchani, a software developer in Toronto, began to hunt for a new job just as the surge of layoffs in the technology sector spread across the world.<\/b><\/p>\n
Mr Vacchani found that his expertise in automation and cloud technology was in demand, and in October he had five interviews on the go.<\/p>\n
Using cloud technology involves shifting data storage and processing to a third party like Amazon’s AWS or Microsoft Azure. Meanwhile automation, in this case, means building software that streamlines labour-intensive work, like processing paperwork.<\/p>\n
By November Mr Vacchani had found a “perfect fit” at sherpa\u00b0, a remote-only tech firm offering customers a way to secure travel visa documentation online.<\/p>\n
“I like to work with a company that is focused on the user experience, especially when it comes to a product I can relate to, since I also had a challenging time trying to get the right visa paperwork when I moved to Canada from India,” says Mr Vacchani, who is now a developer at the company’s automation team.<\/p>\n
He says this wave of heavy layoffs didn’t faze him because of the demand for his skills: coding in the Javascript language, and managing the infrastructure for products and data housed in the cloud.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n