Feanil Patel
Engineering Architect at Axim Collaborative
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolFeanil Patel is an Engineering Architect with 13 years of experience designing and operating cloud-native infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines, currently based in Cambridge, MA. He combines deep Linux and Python expertise with hands-on AWS and Ansible contributions, having improved core cloud modules and automation for large-scale platforms. At edX he progressed from DevOps engineer to principal/staff engineer roles, modernizing deployment stacks, CI, and search (including an Elasticsearch 7 migration) across the Open edX ecosystem. He also maintains developer-facing tooling and documentation—updating devstack, build scripts, and technical docs to keep complex projects accessible to contributors. Known for pragmatic refactors that remove deprecated cruft (e.g., vagrant/devstack and Haystack) while adding robust automation, he balances backend fixes with operational reliability. His background spans both research-grade systems at MIT Lincoln Laboratory and product engineering at Motorola, reflecting a broad, system-level view of software delivery.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Hindi
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (58)
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sphinx10
django10
amazon-elasticsearch10
testing10
rs10
bash10
docker-compose10
travis-ci10
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Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
openedx-unsupported/configuration
Jun 2013 - Mar 2022
A collection of edx configuration scripts and utilities that edx.org uses to deploy openedx.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:4 releases, 17 reviews, 2052 commits in 8 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Feanil made significant contributions to the configuration and deployment infrastructure of the edx platform. Their work involved modifying Nginx configurations, including proxy rules and SSL settings, and updating systemd service configurations for various components such as the LMS and CMS. They also implemented automation related to the CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure and added build systems to build and test the AMIs. The user made contributions to make a lot of the configurations work with newer versions of the tools.
pythonconfiguration-managementansibleedxconfiguration-scripts
openedx/edx-platform
Jun 2013 - Jan 2023
The Open edX LMS & Studio, powering education sites around the world!
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 587 reviews, 909 commits in 9 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Feanil contributed to the Open edX LMS platform by focusing on backend improvements. Their work involved specific fixes to the asset pipeline involving Sass compilation and refactoring the email sync and certificate functionalities within the course platform to utilize newer code versions. The user also incorporated various settings for various frameworks/infrastructures used by the project, including those related to Celery and also adjusted other settings in test environments.
edxlmssitesbackend-serviceopen-edx
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