Yash Patel, Software Engineer (Python/Django)

About

● Experienced software engineer specialized in backend development with Python and Django. ● Hands-on experience of AWS services, and CI/CD tools like Ansible and Jenkins. ● Experienced in leveraging Python frameworks like DRF, Celery, Scrapy, and OpenCV. ● Currently working as a Software Engineer (Backend) at Prompt. ● Was Founding Member and built an entire product from scratch at Intract. ● Collaborated with renowned companies such as TCS, CRED, and more on impactful software projects. ● Passionate about cricket, technology trends, and personal growth through podcasts and spiritual content.

Experience

Prompt

Aug 2021 – Present

Remote

Software Engineer

○ Prompt is the writing school for the world and primarily helps students with university essays. ○ Worked extensively with Python and Django to implement new complex algorithms and features, and significantly contributed to software robustness by writing extensive unit tests using the Pytest framework. ○ Built AI Coach on top of ChatGPT, integrated Stripe payment gateway, and built internal tools with Slack API and Retool developer platform. ○ Used AWS services - Route53, RDS, S3 bucket, and load balancer.

CRED

Jan 2021 – Jul 2021

Banglore, India

Backend Developer Intern

○ CRED is an Indian fintech startup and a unicorn. ○ Worked on a product called CRED Pay, learned about event-based communication between microservices with AWS SQS, and worked on internal tools to streamline critical operations. ○ Gained exposure to Spring Boot framework and Microservice architecture.

Intract

Mar 2020 – Mar 2020

Mumbai, India

Founding Member and Backend Developer

○ Intract is a startup that provides a communication and management platform for educational institutes across India. ○ Built this platform from scratch with a few of my college friends in 3rd year. ○ Developed the backend for this platform from scratch using Python, Django, and Celery. ○ Implemented CI/CD using DevOps tools Jenkins and Ansible ○ 15000+ Active Users

Education

Ramrao Adik Institute of Technology, New Mumbai

Jul 2017 – Jun 2021

BE, Computer Engineering

Yash Patel

Software Engineer (Python/Django)

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