Neal Patel
Director Of Engineering at Ridgepost Capital
Cary, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNeal Patel is a director-level engineering leader with 8 years of hands-on experience building Java/Spring web applications and cloud-native services on AWS. He blends software craftsmanship (Java, Spring, NodeJS, Python) with DevOps and container orchestration expertise (OpenShift/Kubernetes, Docker), having progressed from software engineer roles to Senior DevOps and now Director of Engineering. Neal has delivered secure, SSO-enabled APIs and scalable serverless architectures using AWS Lambda, API Gateway, Cognito, DynamoDB and S3, and he mentors teams on DevOps culture and agile delivery. His background in biological sciences and early lab automation work gives him a practical systems mindset and an unusual ability to translate domain workflows into technical solutions. Known for winning an enterprise hackathon and presenting to C‑level stakeholders, he combines technical depth with clear business communication. Based in Cary, NC, Neal focuses on reliable, maintainable systems that bridge backend services, cloud platforms, and cross‑platform mobile experiences.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Biological Sciences Human Concentration, Biological Sciences Human Concentration at North Carolina State University
Github Skills (144)
csf9
api8
procedures8
swagger8
boilerplate8
golang7
rest-api7
rest7
attestation6
pci6
atlassian6
policies6
testify6
jira6
nist6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
nealajpatel/golang-rest-api-starter
May 2019 - Feb 2022
boilerplate rest api using https://github.com/gin-gonic
Contributions:1 review, 13 commits, 15 PRs in 2 years 9 months
golangapigin-gonicboilerplategin
nealajpatel/aws-oidc
Jun 2022 - May 2024
Contributions:3 PRs, 6 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 10 months
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