Nakul Pathak
Senior Software Engineer at Faire
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolNakul Pathak is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable systems, currently focused on Elasticsearch at Faire from his base in Old Toronto. He has deep hands-on experience migrating monoliths to AWS Fargate, automating infrastructure with Terraform, and optimizing deployments and background job systems from roles at Scribd and Elemy. His background spans backend services, DevOps automation, and full-stack work—evidenced by contributions like a Rails engine for managing payment icons used in the activemerchant ecosystem. Known for reducing operational friction (faster deployments, trimmed cluster teardown times) and mentoring peers through interviews and code walkthroughs, he blends pragmatic engineering with strong system-level thinking. An early teaching streak shows through side roles like SAT tutoring and company-wide trainings, reflecting his ability to communicate complex technical topics clearly.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Elementary School, Elementary School at Mount St. Mary's School, Delhi Cantt.High School, Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Computer Science, 95.2%, High School, Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Computer Science, 95.2% at Delhi Public School - R. K. PuramBachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Software Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Software Engineering at University of Waterloo
English, Hindi, French
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Github Skills (17)
ruby-rails10
rails10
ruby10
payment10
rspec9
script6
jscript6
disk6
android-notifications6
android6
angularjs6
css6
accordion6
django6
algorithm6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
activemerchant/payment_icons
Aug 2015 - Aug 2015
An easy to use library that allows you to manage and access payment icons
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:27 commits, 1 comment in 14 days
Contributions summary:Nakul primarily focused on building a Rails engine for managing payment icons. Their contributions include the creation of a model for payment icons, the implementation of helper methods, and the addition of tests. They also worked on integrating the engine into a dummy Rails application, adding routes, views, and controller logic. The user also made changes to the application's assets and configuration files.
paymentsrailspayment-iconspaymentspree
nakulpathak3/personal-blog-gem
Mar 2016 - Jun 2017
Contributions:8 commits, 84 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
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