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Aren Patel
Summary
- Results driven full stack development background
- Entrepreneurial, hard-working & fast moving
- Proven technical leadership
- Attentive to detail
- Curious, inquisitive, and always receptive to learning new things
Work History
Founding Software Engineer / Principal Finch (YC S20)
July 2021 - Present
- Built out the core services of Finch (Plaid for HR)
- Built our Developer onboarding experience automating sign-ups and product configuration
- Designed and built our Asynchronous job scheduling and workload platform
- Leveraged tools like Sentry and DataDog to bring a culture of observability and measurement to our Product & Engineering org
- Worked with our legal counsel to craft our policies, terms of services, and GDPR commitments
- Led our security team to improve access auditing and token security (JWTs)
- Designed a generic system to perform targetted rollouts using Unleash feature flagging
- Grew our engineering team from 2 to 25, mentored and coached newer engineers
- Developed a culture of quality by introducing unit and integration test patterns
Staff Software Engineer (L6) Google / Area 120 / Orion Wi-Fi
August 2019 - July 2021
- Orion Wi-Fi is a team within Area 120, Google's in-house incubator
- Developed Angular (Dart and TypeScript) web apps for enrolling Wi-Fi supply and demand
- Designed & developed gRPC/Protobuf/HTTP interfaces for consumption by first and third party client applications
- Go, Dart, Angular, Typescript, gRPC, Protobuf, AppEngine, GCP, Firebase, OAuth, etc.
Software Engineer Google / Nest
July 2014 - August 2019
- TL for the Nest to Google account migration project on Nest's Login pages
- Introduced Docker containers and Kubernetes to Nest's Web Engineering team
- Technology lead for the team that built Nest's My Account data export tool (required for the European Union's GDPR compliance)
- Authored the Nest Cam & TensorFlow Codelab presented at Google I/O 2017 (Python + Flask)
- Designed and developed a variety of apps and services to support the Nest Developers (OAuth) program
- Built the APIs and UI/UX required to launch Works With Nest
- Go, Ruby on Rails, Ember.js, Vue.js, TypeScript, Percona/MySQL Server, Redis, AWS, GCP, Git, nginx, OAuth, SAML, JWTs, etc.
Partner Technology Manager Google / BufferBox
May 2013 - July 2014
- Managed technical aspects of retailers' BufferBox REST API integrations
- Created sales collateral using Adobe Photoshop/Illustrator/InDesign
- Produced product demos and presentations for prospective partners
Lead Developer BufferBox (YC S12 -- acquired by Google)
July 2012 - May 2013
- Responsible for design and development of all BufferBox web services and APIs
- Ruby on Rails, Python, Flask, MySQL, Redis, AWS, Heroku, DelayedJob, Clockwork, Git, Mailgun etc
- Initial software released at Y Combinator's Summer 2012 Demo Day; subsequently named to TechCrunch's Top 10 Startups
- Acquired by Google - supported migration and integration with Google's technologies (rewrite in Go for AppEngine)
Education
Bachelor of Applied Science, Honours Electrical Engineering, University of Waterloo
Specializations: Software Development, Artificial Intelligence, Communications & Network Security, Cryptography
Fourth Year Design Project Unlockly
- Built a Wi-Fi connected smart lock that could be used from any internet connected device
- State changes (open/close or lock/unlocked) pushed to cloud, then to user (SMS/email)
- Awarded Velocity Demo Day Peoples' Choice $1000 Award Page 17
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Stack summary:
- Front End: Bootstrap, LESS, Async JavaScript
- Back End: Ruby on Rails, Node.js, MongoDB, Redis, WebSockets
- Web Services: Heroku, AWS EC2, Mailgun, Twilio, MongoHQ, Redis to Go
- Hardware: Arduino, Wi-Fi shield
- Discontinued hosting in 2017
Personal Projects
github.com/google/jsonapi
- Open sourced a Go library for serializing/deserializing JSON payload following the for the JSON API format
- This project helped develop my familiarity with reading and understanding specifications/RFCs (JSON API v1.0, ISO8601, RFC 2119, etc.)
- Currated issues/bugs and reviewed pull requests from public contributors
- Authored library documentation, godoc reference documentation and new feature proposals (#80)
- Was used to build the Go backend for Works With Nest; also used in a variety of third party projects
- Reached approximately 900+ starts on GitHub
CampusMeme
- Site allowed users to upload and share memes related to collegiate life
- Scaled to handle 10k+ uniques in a month at site's peak
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Stack summary:
- Front End: Custom HTML5/SCSS, Async JavaScript
- Back End: Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, AWS S3
- Web Services: Heroku, Mailgun, New Relic
- Discontinued hosting in 2018
MyTeam2014
- Built to allow users to build roster projections for the 2014 Olympic Ice Hockey event
- Tight integration with Facebook's platform APIs (authentication, sharing, etc)
- Scraped NHL.com for player information, images and stats
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Stack summary:
- Front End: Bootstrap, LESS
- Back End: Ruby on Rails, MongoDB
- Web Services: Heroku, AWS EC2, Mailgun, MongoHQ, New Relic
- Discontinued hosting in 2017
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