Summary
Rahul Patel is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building web applications across Node.js, PHP, JavaScript, HTML5 and CSS3. Currently at NearForm after several progressive senior roles at Pollen, he brings deep practical knowledge of back-end and front-end stacks and a track record of scaling features in production environments. Educated in Computer Science with a year in industry from the University of Kent, he combines academic grounding with long-term commercial experience including extended tenure at Holiday Extras. Based in Stony Stratford, UK, Rahul pairs engineering rigor with a pragmatic product focus—an attribute honed by earlier retail and customer-facing roles that sharpened his user-first perspective.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
9 GCSEs, 9 GCSEs at Brittons School and Technology College
BTEC Information Technology for IT Practitioners, BTEC Information Technology for IT Practitioners at Barking College
Computer Science with Year in Industry BSc (Hons), Computer Science with Year in Industry BSc (Hons) at University of Kent
Gujarati, English, Hindi