Neel Bhat
Director Of Software Engineering at Tovala
Vernon Hills, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolNeel Bhat is a Director of Software Engineering with 12 years of experience leading backend teams and shipping scalable web applications, currently driving engineering at Tovala. He rose through hands-on roles from backend developer to engineering manager and now director, consistently aligning product and engineering to deliver pragmatic, high-impact results. Comfortable as a generalist, Neel’s expertise spans Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, Redis, Sidekiq and modern SaaS infrastructure, with a track record of shaping dev culture and processes at early-stage and growth startups. He has led product-facing technical work—from APIs to analytics pipelines—while prioritizing simplicity, lean solutions, and the Pareto principle. Beyond engineering, Neel writes about his perspectives and values (including a belief in slowing down) and brings a founder’s mindset from earlier CTO experience. Based in Vernon Hills, IL, he combines technical depth with strong stakeholder collaboration to scale teams and systems effectively.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (6)
rails-app4
benchmark3
sinatra3
ruby2
golang2
rails2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
neelbhat88/hoku
Jun 2014 - Apr 2017
Contributions:20 commits, 2 PRs, 16 pushes in 2 years 10 months
neelbhat88/imuadev
Aug 2016 - Oct 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
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