Summary
Monil Panchal is a Staff Software Developer with nearly a decade of experience designing and delivering resilient, high-throughput distributed systems across cloud, SaaS, and telecom domains. He specializes in microservices, event-driven architectures, Kubernetes, and backend platforms built with Java, Node.js, Kafka, Redis and Elasticsearch, and has repeatedly driven migrations that improve reliability and reduce operational cost. At IBM he replatformed a global synthetics monitoring service to an event-driven microservices stack, cutting costs and boosting reliability; at Rapido he redesigned order management to handle ~1M orders/day while reducing fraud and saving significant operational costs. He combines hands-on engineering with technical leadership—spearheading DevSecOps adoption, cost-optimization, and architecture modernization initiatives—and mentors teams through complex transformations. Based in Toronto, he favors language-agnostic, scalable backend engineering and brings a pattern-oriented approach to observability and SRE. Beyond coding, he has a track record of translating business constraints into pragmatic architecture changes that measurably improve performance and efficiency.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Engineering at Gujarat Technological University
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Dalhousie University