Raul Patel
CTO & Co-Founder at Hands in
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRaul Patel is a CTO and co-founder with eight years of hands-on experience building backend systems and leading product engineering from the UK. He blends practical software engineering—Kotlin, Java, C#, and Angular—with quantitative modeling experience from a stint at G-Research, bringing a data-driven mindset to product architecture. As an undergraduate researcher at Imperial College, he achieved a 130% speedup in FPGA-accelerated epidemic simulations, demonstrating a knack for low-level optimization and measurable performance gains. At Hands in he combines technical leadership with entrepreneurial drive, steering an early-stage company while still remaining deeply involved in implementation. Known for clear documentation and iterative improvement, he balances research rigor with delivery-focused agility.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
GCSE, 13 A*-As, GCSE, 13 A*-As at Park High SchoolSoftware Engineering, Computer Science, 1st, Software Engineering, Computer Science, 1st at Imperial College LondonA-level, 6th Form, 4 A*s, A-level, 6th Form, 4 A*s at Watford Grammar School For Boys
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Github Skills (43)
lg9
smart-tv9
television8
webos8
amazon7
plaid7
banking6
api5
open-banking5
api-platform5
restful-api4
metadata4
bank4
restful4
rest4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
FeLiNa22/Imperial-C-Exam-Solutions
Jun 2020 - Jul 2020
Contributions:26 commits, 26 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
hands-in/react-square-web-payments-sdk
Jul 2023 - Mar 2025
Easily create PCI-compliant inputs to accept payments online with the Square Payments API. It supports the following payment methods: credit and debit cards, ACH bank transfers, Apple Pay, Google Pay, Gift Cards and Afterpay/Clearpay.
Contributions:1 release, 2 PRs, 4 pushes in 1 year 8 months
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