Summary
Karan Patel is a software engineer based in Chicago with four years of experience building high-performance backend systems, currently at Capital One. He has driven cost-saving infrastructure migrations and low-latency cache redesigns for credit card transaction pipelines and boosted API performance and test coverage through pragmatic engineering. His internship work included creating a GraphQL governance package with sensitive-data scanning and regex-driven data quality improvements, demonstrating a strong focus on security and reliability. A Carleton University computer science graduate with a software engineering specialization and a business minor, he blends deep technical skills in Java, Go, Python, and AWS with an eye for product impact and operational efficiency. Notably, he elevated test coverage from 50% to 90% and helped migrate a cache system that handled hundreds of billions of transactions annually.
4 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Minor in Business, Minor in Business at Sprott School of Business at Carleton University
Bachelor of Computer Science and Specialization in Software Engineering, Computer Science, 3.9 Major GPA (11.0 CGPA Equivalent), Bachelor of Computer Science and Specialization in Software Engineering, Computer Science, 3.9 Major GPA (11.0 CGPA Equivalent) at Carleton University