Kaelan Patel
Software Engineer at Stackwatch, creators of Kubecost
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolKaelan Patel is a software engineer with eight years of experience focused on backend and DevOps for cloud-native systems, currently building cost-optimization tooling at Stackwatch (creators of Kubecost) in San Francisco. He specializes in Kubernetes and cloud cost monitoring, contributing practical improvements like robust JSON unmarshaling and unit tests to open-source projects such as opencost/opencost. Kaelan brings a strong CS foundation from the University of Colorado Boulder and a tendency to tackle core data-model and serialization challenges that quietly improve observability and reliability. Outside work, his GitHub hints at a creative side as a niche biohorror manga enthusiast, suggesting curiosity and unconventional perspectives he brings to engineering problems.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at University of Colorado Boulder
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Github Skills (7)
unit-testing10
json10
go10
kubernetes-pods9
cost-optimization9
kubernetes9
prometheus8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
opencost/opencost
Jun 2021 - Dec 2022
Cost monitoring for Kubernetes workloads and cloud costs
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:3 releases, 61 reviews, 118 commits in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Kaelan focused on enhancing the functionality of the `Node` type, a core component of the project, by implementing the `UnmarshalJSON` function. This involved significant changes to the `asset.go` file, including parsing various properties and fields from JSON data. Furthermore, the user added unit tests to ensure the correct unmarshaling of the `Node` type, providing testing for several fields. Additionally, the user made improvements to the project's JSON handling and unmarshaling capabilities for other types of assets.
gcpcost-optimizationfinopskubecostcost-allocation
kaelanspatel/opencost
Oct 2022 - Mar 2025
Cross-cloud cost allocation models for Kubernetes workloads
Contributions:76 pushes, 34 branches in 2 years 5 months
cost-optimizationcost-allocationworkloadsmulti-clusterallocation
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