Paras Patel
Sr. Manager, Productivity Platform Engineering
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolParas Patel is a senior platform engineering leader with 12+ years of hands-on experience building scalable, cost-efficient developer platforms and cloud-native infrastructure across Rakuten and large-scale environments. He blends system architecture and people leadership to deliver Internal Developer Platforms, GitHub self-hosted runner scaling, and AI-driven automation—cutting deployment times by 60%+ while maintaining 99.99% uptime. Deep expertise in Kubernetes, Terraform, observability stacks (Datadog/Prometheus/Splunk), and cloud FinOps has enabled consistent multi-cloud cost reductions through predictive scaling and chargeback models. Paras also pioneers agentic AI tooling (MCP-based agents, PR reviewer bots, IDE code assistants) that embed procedural memory into developer workflows, a less obvious strength that accelerates automation adoption. His background contributing to distributed storage projects (LeoFS, ROMA) and building EKS lifecycle tooling in Go underscores a strong mix of low-level distributed systems know-how and platform product thinking. Located in the SF Bay Area, he favors data-driven DORA metrics and “platform-as-product” practices to bridge engineering velocity with business outcomes.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Computer Technology - Network Infrastructure and Security, Master’s Degree, Computer Technology - Network Infrastructure and Security at Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute (VJTI)Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Information Technology, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Information Technology at V.V.P. ENGINEERING COLLEGE, RAJKOT 047
English, Japanese, Gujarati, Hindi, Marathi
Github Skills (158)
hubot10
in-progress10
ecr10
kubernetes-node10
jstree10
javascript9
charts9
helm9
file-sharing9
opt9
server-core9
backbonejs9
federated9
k8s9
self-hosting9
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
rr-paras-patel/Dockerfile
Apr 2016 - Jan 2017
Contributions:21 commits, 20 pushes, 2 branches in 9 months
rr-paras-patel/charts-1
Aug 2022 - Jan 2025
Edge Delta Helm Charts Repository
Contributions:9 PRs, 2 pushes, 2 comments in 2 years 5 months
chartsdeltahelmedgehelm-charts
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