Aren Patel
Untitled at Atolio
Narni, Umbria, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAren Patel is a results-driven engineering leader with 14 years of full-stack experience across startups and large platforms, currently building at Pallet and investing via Atolio. He combines hands-on backend expertise in Ruby, Go and TypeScript with prior roles at Finch and nearly a decade at Google (including work stemming from acquisitions like BufferBox/Nest). Aren has a history of shipping APIs and serialization tooling—his contributions to google/jsonapi added RFC 3339 support and nuanced marshaling features—demonstrating attention to robust data contracts. Trained as an electrical engineer at the University of Waterloo, he brings systems-level thinking to product teams and a founder’s perspective from co-founding Unlockly. Based in Narni, Umbria while operating in the U.S. market, he blends distributed work habits with deep implementation chops.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Ontario Secondary School Diploma, Ontario Secondary School Diploma at Lorne Park Secondary SchoolBachelor of Applied Science Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science Electrical Engineering at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (7)
serialization10
deserialization10
serializable10
go10
json-api10
serializer10
testing10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
google/jsonapi
Jul 2015 - Apr 2021
jsonapi.org style payload serializer and deserializer
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 52 commits, 64 PRs in 5 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Aren primarily focused on implementing and improving the `google/jsonapi` library, which is designed for JSON API payload serialization and deserialization. They implemented new features, such as marshaling without including related records and support for the `omitempty` annotation, to enhance the library's functionality. Additionally, the user added RFC 3339 support and tests. These changes involved modifying core functionalities related to data serialization and deserialization, and they also updated the documentation and examples.
golangjsonapiapipayloadserialization
aren55555/omniauth-dash
Nov 2014 - Apr 2017
Contributions:5 commits, 1 push, 1 comment in 2 years 5 months
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