Datt Patel
SDE II
Currently contemplating if I should leave everything and become a dairy farmer.
San Francisco, CA
Who am I?
Hello, I'm Datt! I like to make an impact through my work, otherwise why do it at all?
What do you do for work?
Currently I am a Software Engineer at GEICO under support Event Streaming services in PaaS. See below for more details on my experience.
What do I do after work?
I work on my home cloud server, go cafe hopping,and try to beat Ori: Will of the Wisps.
What would you do if you had unlimited time and resources?
Read research papers on Neurotechnology and Machine Learning, Learn Quantum Computing and gardening.
What hobbies do I have?
I enjoy cooking new fusion recipes, and going on hikes. Scroll below to see more about my hobbies.
Professional Experience
A timeline of my professional journey, showcasing key roles, achievements, and growth over the years.
SDE II
Contributing to building, architecting and maintaining a scalable Event streaming platform at GEICO. Currently processing over 40 million events daily.
Key Achievements:
- Prepared compliance reports to ensure Kafka systems adhered to NYDFS regulations for asset management.
- Mentored junior engineers on communication strategies and technical skills, easing their transition from university to corporate environment.
- Broke down Producer client tasks for in-house Kafka SDK and translated OKRs into technical features for executive leadership.
- Diagnosed product issues and conducted root cause analysis on load balancer networking configurations to resolve customer problems and maintain service quality.
- Evaluated pull requests for in-house Kafka SDK, enforcing best practices including proper encapsulation, clear Javadocs, and consistent naming conventions.
- Decreased compliance vulnerabilities by 80% on virtual machines and code repositories through targeted research and mitigation implementation.
- Co-led Topic API database layer refactoring using clean OOP and design principles, improving maintainability and extensibility of a critical system.
- Developed distributed REST API for Kafka as a Service, enabling self-service provisioning of Kafka resources.
- Led design discussions with stakeholders and senior engineers for multi-tenancy support, request tracing, and trace querying capabilities.
- Enhanced customer onboarding documentation by creating wiki instructions and regularly refining content based on user feedback.
- Implemented geo-replication offset migration in the Provisioning API, enabling Active-Passive Kafka setups that minimized risks of message duplication and data loss.
Technologies Used:
Backend Engineer
Contributed to building multi-processing tasks queues and dyanmic UI for machine learning result.
Key Achievements:
- Reduced time to review reports from 5 mins to 30 seconds by enhancing UI/UX design with React.
- Decreased average computation time per process by ~60% via distributed task queues and concurrent processing.
- Redesigned database schema to efficiently store results and reports on AWS RDS and AWS S3 buckets respectively.
Technologies Used:
Full Stack Engineer
Developed full stack web application for CRM software for pharmaceutical products.
Key Achievements:
- Built scalable and secure backend services and RESTful APIs using Python, Django, and PostgreSQL.
- Implemented secure SFTP file operations in Python for automated file handling and integrated PGPy for encryption/decryption to enhance data protection.
- Developed modular email dispatch functions using Boto3 and Botocore to improve backend communication.
- Created responsive UI components with React and JavaScript, using Material UI, Semantic UI, and React-Bootstrap for enhanced user experience.
- Integrated third-party APIs with SSL certificate authentication to improve data connectivity across platforms.
Technologies Used:
Hobbies & Interests
Beyond my professional work, I enjoy exploring various hobbies and interests that keep me inspired and balanced.
Cooking
Exploring different cuisines and experimenting with new recipes. I love the creativity and science behind cooking, from molecular gastronomy to traditional techniques.
Hiking
Recently I have hiked to Taft point and Glacier point in Yosemite National Park.