Aren Patel's Resume

You can view my extended resume online at resume.arenpatel.com

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

Software Engineer Finch

July 2021 - Present

Helping create positive developer experiences

Software Engineer 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

Led the team responsible for building the Nest to Google account migration 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 (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)

Business Development Intern Xtreme Labs (acquired by Pivotal Labs)

September 2011 – December 2011

Advised partners on strategy for rapidly emerging mobile platforms
Authored sales materials, pitch decks, one pagers and blog posts
Handled lead qualification and manages sales funnels via Salesforce

Agile Engineer Intern Xtreme Labs (acquired by Pivotal Labs)

January 2011 – May 2011

Developed the Globe & Mail Politics app for iPhone
Contributed code to a BlackBerry OS 6 music app
Worked closely with customers to implement innovative features

Agile Engineer Intern Xtreme Labs (acquired by Pivotal Labs)

May 2010 – September 2010

Quickly learned Ruby on Rails to build web apps and mobile backend
Employed test driven development in an agile programming environment
Introduced to cutting edge HTML5/CSS3 features (canvas, transitions, etc)

Settlements Support Intern IESO

September 2009 – December 2009

Built a system to calculate compensation for heavy load curtailment in Ontario's Demand Response program
Handled data retrieved from field metering points on Ontario's distribution system
Authored technical documents defining requirements, specifications and testing strategy

Market Entry Intern IESO

January 2009 – May 2009

Developed a database to help utilities report participation in Ontario's Smart Metering program
Upgraded and maintained legacy database systems (Microsoft SQL Server & Microsoft Access)
Gained exposure to the operation of Ontario's electricity market

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
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
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

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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
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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