Devan Patel
Principal Software Engineer at SentiLink
Denver, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDevan Patel is a Principal Software Engineer based in Denver with 11 years of experience building reliable, testable systems across startups and cloud platforms. He’s progressed through engineering roles at SentiLink to lead architecture and delivery while previously contributing at AWS, mParticle, and Goldman Sachs, blending fintech risk insights with cloud-scale engineering. Known for raising team effectiveness and quality, he also contributes to open-source testing—improving unit coverage for the numbers.js math library to harden edge-case behavior. Comfortable across backend services, data-driven tooling, and automation, he pairs a Maths/CS background from the University of Florida with a practical focus on error handling and observability that reduces production surprises.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science Engineering Mathematics, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science Engineering Mathematics at University of Florida
Spanish, Gujarati, Hindi, English
Github Skills (7)
unit-testing10
javascript10
tdd10
error-handling9
nodejs8
math7
mathematics7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
numbers/numbers.js
Jan 2015 - Jan 2015
Advanced Mathematics Library for Node.js and JavaScript
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:9 commits, 1 PR, 3 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Devan primarily focused on enhancing the quality of the `numbers.js` library by implementing and expanding unit tests. They added new tests for `divMod`, `fallingFactorial`, `binomial`, and `powerMod` functions, covering integer validation and error handling. These tests included checks for edge cases and expected exceptions, ensuring code robustness. The user's work directly improved the test coverage and reliability of the mathematical functions within the library.
mathstatisticsnode-jsmathematicsjavascript
devanp92/combinatorics.js
Aug 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:28 commits, 47 pushes, 2 branches in 5 months
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