Jay Patel
Staff Software Engineer at Clay
New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJay Patel is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building and scaling high-traffic, cloud-native systems from startups to Fortune 500s. He led architecture and performance work at Peloton—reducing leaderboard p95 latency from 1s to 10ms—designed a horizontally scalable Compressed LB service in Kotlin/gRPC, and drove a team-wide migration to Kubernetes and robust CI/CD. His background spans real-time systems, recommendation engines, and large-scale load testing, with prior roles modernizing computer vision services and implementing event-driven growth analytics. Based in New York, he moves seamlessly between hands-on implementation and long-term roadmapping, having mapped multi-year migration plans and prioritized platform work. Less obvious: his academic mix of computer science and linguistics suggests a penchant for both rigorous systems thinking and nuanced problem framing. Currently at Clay after a brief Staff role at Reddit, he focuses on resilient, observable infrastructure that supports rapid product growth.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) Computer Science at University of Pennsylvania
Japanese
Github Skills (51)
git10
github10
patch10
rickshaw10
subversion10
graph9
chaining9
nginx8
logging8
charts8
svg8
authentication8
json-api8
javascript8
middleware8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
jay3686/shopping-list
Mar 2016 - May 2016
Contributions:1 PR, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
jay3686/go-book-exercises
May 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:23 pushes, 1 branch in 28 days
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