Kieran Patel
Head Of Technology at Lifesum
Yaiza, Spain
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Top SchoolKieran Patel is a pragmatic technology leader with 11 years of experience scaling engineering organisations and building cloud-native infrastructure, currently serving as Head of Technology at Lifesum and Lykon from his base in Yaiza, Spain. He blends hands-on backend and DevOps expertise—evident from contributions to a Go API gateway (motif-labs/janus) adding OAuth, CORS and CI/CD improvements—with strategic engineering leadership shaped at HelloFresh where he rebuilt teams, architecture and Kubernetes adoption. Kieran has a track record of turning legacy stacks into declarative, automated infrastructure using Terraform, Ansible and Kubernetes, and has led microservice and event-sourcing initiatives in production. Comfortable shifting between coding and people leadership, he prioritises measurable delivery, technical mentorship and secure, testable systems. An understated strength: he moves smoothly from low-level middleware fixes to org-wide tech strategy, making him effective both in the trenches and the C-suite.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Borden Grammar SchoolBSc. Computing, BSc. Computing at Bournemouth University
English, French, German, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (23)
middleware10
apidoc10
cicd10
go10
api10
api-gateway10
reverse-proxy9
dockers9
docker9
redis7
testing7
microservices-application7
oauth7
microservices7
laravel-artisan6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
motiv-labs/janus
Jul 2016 - Oct 2017
An API Gateway written in Go
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:43 commits, 32 PRs, 34 pushes in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Kieran primarily contributed to enhancing the API gateway's functionality. Their work involved implementing and modifying CORS middleware, addressing issues related to nil body or redirect responses, and integrating OAuth security features. Additionally, the user refactored and rewrote existing middleware to align with the new signature and updated the CI/CD pipeline to improve build and testing processes.
api-gatewayapigolangproxyreverse-proxy
smartbnb/api-docs
Nov 2019 - Aug 2021
OpenAPI documentation for the Smartbnb Public API
Contributions:3 PRs, 41 pushes, 7 branches in 1 year 8 months
apiredocapi-documentationopenapi3public-api
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