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I’m a lead Python developer specializing in building and scaling backend systems with Django and FastAPI, and I enjoy turning complex, high-volume workloads into maintainable services. I’ve led migrations from monolithic architectures to microservices, designed REST/gRPC interfaces, and introduced reliable async processing to make long-running tasks faster and more predictable. Over the years, I’ve worked across SaaS, fintech, and business web applications, focusing on performance, data reliability, and operational excellence. I’m comfortable optimizing PostgreSQL at scale, improving system stability during traffic spikes, and collaborating closely with product and data teams to deliver measurable results—while mentoring engineers and strengthening engineering practices.…I’m a lead Python developer specializing in building and scaling backend systems with Django and FastAPI, and I enjoy turning complex, high-volume workloads into maintainable services. I’ve led migrations from monolithic architectures to microservices, designed REST/gRPC interfaces, and introduced reliable async processing to make long-running tasks faster and more predictable. Over the years, I’ve worked across SaaS, fintech, and business web applications, focusing on performance, data reliability, and operational excellence. I’m comfortable optimizing PostgreSQL at scale, improving system stability during traffic spikes, and collaborating closely with product and data teams to deliver measurable results—while mentoring engineers and strengthening engineering practices.

Kyle Patel

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I’m a lead Python developer specializing in building and scaling backend systems with Django and FastAPI, and I enjoy turning complex, high-volume workloads into maintainable services. I’ve led migrations from monolithic architectures to microservices, designed REST/gRPC interfaces, and introduced reliable async processing to make long-running tasks faster and more predictable. Over the years, I’ve worked across SaaS, fintech, and business web applications, focusing on performance, data reliability, and operational excellence. I’m comfortable optimizing PostgreSQL at scale, improving system stability during traffic spikes, and collaborating closely with product and data teams to deliver measurable results—while mentoring engineers and strengthening engineering practices.…I’m a lead Python developer specializing in building and scaling backend systems with Django and FastAPI, and I enjoy turning complex, high-volume workloads into maintainable services. I’ve led migrations from monolithic architectures to microservices, designed REST/gRPC interfaces, and introduced reliable async processing to make long-running tasks faster and more predictable. Over the years, I’ve worked across SaaS, fintech, and business web applications, focusing on performance, data reliability, and operational excellence. I’m comfortable optimizing PostgreSQL at scale, improving system stability during traffic spikes, and collaborating closely with product and data teams to deliver measurable results—while mentoring engineers and strengthening engineering practices.

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I’m a lead Python developer specializing in building and scaling backend systems with Django and FastAPI, and I enjoy turning complex, high-volume workloads into maintainable services. I’ve led migrations from monolithic architectures to microservices, designed REST/gRPC interfaces, and introduced reliable async processing to make long-running tasks faster and more predictable.

Over the years, I’ve worked across SaaS, fintech, and business web applications, focusing on performance, data reliability, and operational excellence. I’m comfortable optimizing PostgreSQL at scale, improving system stability during traffic spikes, and collaborating closely with product and data teams to deliver measurable results—while mentoring engineers and strengthening engineering practices.

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Lead Software Engineer at Carmel Solution

May 1, 2022 - Present

Led a team of 8 developers building and scaling a data analytics SaaS for 40,000+ active users. Owned architecture decisions to migrate a monolithic Django application to FastAPI-based microservices, improving average API response time by 55%. Drove asynchronous processing adoption with Celery + Redis for long-running tasks, reducing report generation time from 10 minutes to under 1 minute. Optimized PostgreSQL queries and indexing for tables exceeding 200M rows and introduced read replicas to reduce peak database CPU by 40%. Built CI/CD with GitHub Actions on Kubernetes, improved test coverage with pytest (40% to 82%), implemented rate-limited API gateway protection (3x stability during spikes), and led production incident response and monitoring with Prometheus/Grafana.

Senior Software Engineer at Kinatrx

February 1, 2019 - April 30, 2022

Developed and maintained backend services for a fintech reporting platform using Django and PostgreSQL, supporting REST APIs consumed by a React frontend and third-party partners. Re-architected transaction reconciliation using Celery background tasks, reducing processing errors by 80%. Optimized slow ORM queries and added strategic indexes to reduce report generation time from 12 seconds to under 3 seconds. Implemented authentication and role-based authorization with Django auth and JWT, integrated payment gateways and financial data providers, and built a reusable notification service (email/SMS) adopted across multiple internal applications.

Software Engineer at Jorie AI

July 1, 2016 - January 31, 2019

Developed and maintained web applications using Django and Flask for retail and small business clients. Built CRUD admin panels, form validations, and reporting dashboards; delivered an inventory and billing module ahead of schedule, reducing manual reconciliation effort by 55%. Automated a manual monthly reporting process with Python scripts and cron jobs, saving about 8 hours per week. Contributed bug fixes and feature enhancements, wrote SQL queries and ORM models, assisted with database schema design, and supported end-to-end SDLC including deployment on AWS/VPS.