Summary
Karan Patel is a software engineer based in Chicago with four years of experience building high-performance backend systems, currently at Capital One. He has driven cost-saving infrastructure migrations and low-latency cache redesigns for credit card transaction pipelines and boosted API performance and test coverage through pragmatic engineering. His internship work included creating a GraphQL governance package with sensitive-data scanning and regex-driven data quality improvements, demonstrating a strong focus on security and reliability. A Carleton University computer science graduate with a software engineering specialization and a business minor, he blends deep technical skills in Java, Go, Python, and AWS with an eye for product impact and operational efficiency. Notably, he elevated test coverage from 50% to 90% and helped migrate a cache system that handled hundreds of billions of transactions annually.
4 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computer Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Computer Science Computer Science at Carleton University