Hiren Patel
Software Engineer at Kaiser Permanente
Port Orchard, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolHiren Patel is a software engineer with 8 years of technical experience and 4+ years building scalable, secure enterprise systems at Kaiser Permanente, currently completing an MS in Computer Science at Georgia Tech. He spans full-stack development—Django, Spring Boot/Kotlin, Go, Rust—and has driven measurable impact like 100% MariaDB performance gains, 80% Databricks throughput improvements, and a 90% runtime reduction by rewriting a job in Rust. Hiren architects ETL and logging pipelines in Azure using Dagster, NiFi and Rust, and has contributed backend improvements to the rust-mysql-simple client by hardening connection option parsing, tests, and docs. His background as a clinician and pharmacy technician informs a pragmatic approach to requirements gathering and customer-focused design for healthcare operations. Comfortable both shipping production services and contributing to open-source libraries, he combines systems-level optimization with hands-on engineering to turn operational pain points into automated solutions.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
San José State UniversityMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science, 3.75/4, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, 3.75/4 at Georgia Institute of TechnologyGrow with Google Scholar | Android Development Student at Udacity, Android Development Student at Udacity, Grow with Google Scholar | Android Development Student at Udacity, Android Development Student at Udacity at UdacityBachelor of Science - BS, Software Development, Bachelor of Science - BS, Software Development at Western Governors University
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Github Skills (16)
database-driver10
rust10
mysql10
database9
testing9
databases9
error-handling8
api-design8
django-admin-tools6
django-admin6
django-apps6
sqlalchemy6
python6
python-asyncio6
aiohttp6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
blackbeam/rust-mysql-simple
Nov 2020 - Nov 2020
Mysql client library implemented in rust.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 7 commits, 3 PRs in 3 days
Contributions summary:Hiren primarily focused on enhancing the `rust-mysql-simple` library by implementing and refining functionality related to handling MySQL connection options. Their contributions included adding a `from_hash_map` function to parse connection parameters from a HashMap, expanding the supported parameters, and refactoring the function signature to use references. The user also added documentation and tests to validate the changes and ensure the correct parsing of various connection options, including those parsed from URL parameters. Further improvements involved incorporating more connection parameters, including handling of error conditions, and enhancing the test suite.
drivermysqlrustclient-librarymysql-client
hpca01/bakingapprepo
Aug 2018 - Nov 2020
udacity baking app project
Contributions:6 PRs, 11 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 3 months
bakingudacity
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