Software Developer

Niraj Patel

519-***-**** *************@*****.*** linkedin.com/in/nirajpatell github.com/nirajp786 Experience

Backend Software Engineer II July 2022 – May 2025

Lookout Remote

• Led backend development for Lookout’s highest-earning enterprise product, building scalable Ruby on Rails APIs that drove $1M+ in revenue growth

• Boosted system reliability and code quality by 12% by writing end-to-end tests and enforcing CI quality gates

• Optimized Redis caching and Sidekiq queues, improving API response time by 30% and reducing job latency

• Enhanced service reliability by leveraging existing Kafka event streams for backend features, reducing consumer lag and improving event handling throughput by 22%

• Built real-time monitors and alerting dashboards using Datadog and ELK, cutting incident detection and debug time over 60%

• Automated deployments with Spinnaker, Jenkins, and CloudBees, reducing manual effort by 90% and increasing deployment frequency

• Improved infrastructure-as-code (IaC) practices by maintaining and extending Terraform modules on AWS, reducing environment drift and provisioning time by 40% Lead Software Engineer January 2021 – July 2022

PosterBuoy Remote

• Directed a team of 3-4 engineers across backend and DevOps, overseeing task allocation, conducting code reviews, and ensuring sprint velocity and delivery goals were met on time

• Architected and launched the company’s backend using Express.js in Node.js, utilized Postman to effectively test and deploy it to GCP’s Cloud Run

• Led the design of the company’s MySQL database on Cloud SQL, ensuring they are in the most normalized form and is indexed to have faster querying time

• Built and maintained infrastructure as code with Terraform on GCP, improving deployment reliability and reducing manual provisioning time by 70%

• Initially guided frontend development using AngularJS, HTML, and CSS to support product UI Software DevOps Engineering Intern February 2022 – June 2022 SS8 Networks Remote

• Automated infrastructure provisioning on AWS and GCP by writing reusable Terraform modules, reducing setup time for dev environments by 50%

• Developed internal automation scripts using Ansible and Bash to streamline deployment and configuration processes across staging and production

Software Developer Intern May 2021 – August 2021

Government of Canada Remote

• Validated RADIUS server authentication protocols using PAP and CHAP, capturing 500+ packets with Wireshark to verify data integrity and identify potential security vulnerabilities in network communication.

• Utilized Python and PyRad to automate the user-authentication and accounting for vulnerability verification Embedded Software Developer Intern May 2020 – September 2020 Apag Elektronik Corp. Remote

• Constructed a thermometer with accuracy of 0.1 Celsius using Microcontroller SAMD11

• Implemented the synchronous ADC on the MCAL Layer and the ECU Function in C Technical Skills

Languages: Java, Python, C, Ruby, Go

Web Technologies: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, React.js, Angular, Node.js, Express.js, Flask, Ruby on Rails Developer Tools: Git, Docker, Kafka, Selenium, ElasticSearch, Datadog, Sentry, Pandas, NumPy, Matplotlib Database: SQL, NoSQL, SQLite, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Firebase, Cloud SQL DevOps and Cloud: GCP, AWS, Terraform, Jenkins, Spinnaker, Ansible Education

University of Windsor Windsor, Ontario, Canada

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science with Honours Sept. 2018 – Apr 2022 GPA: 3.6/4.0

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