Ritesh Patel
Senior Web Engineer at Fueled
Vadodara, Gujarat, India
Summary
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Top SchoolRitesh Patel is a Senior Web Engineer with 12 years of experience building robust WordPress and web platform solutions, now working at Fueled after 10up’s WordPress practice merged into the company. He brings deep backend expertise in PHP, JavaScript and C++, and has improved large open-source WordPress projects like ElasticPress and Distributor by hardening Elasticsearch integrations, adding tests for failure scenarios, and improving content syndication and REST handling. A DA-IICT MS in Information Technology, Ritesh combines engineering rigor with practical plugin architecture experience, often addressing edge cases such as index deletion and embedded-URL handling that reveal a systems-thinking approach. Based in Vadodara, he balances hands-on coding with mentoring and long-term platform reliability across distributed WordPress ecosystems.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master Of Science, Information Tehnology, Master Of Science, Information Tehnology at DA-IICTBachelor Of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor Of Science, Computer Science at Sardar Patel University
English, Hindi, Gujarati
Github Skills (16)
plugin-development10
wordpress10
elasticsearch-api10
elasticsearch10
content-management-system10
elasticsearchquery10
rest-api10
php10
aws-elasticsearch10
content-management10
back-end-development10
phpunit10
amazon-elasticsearch10
api-design9
searching9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
10up/ElasticPress
Aug 2016 - Apr 2018
A fast and flexible search and query engine for WordPress.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:32 commits, 25 PRs, 147 comments in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Ritesh primarily contributed to the back-end logic of the ElasticPress plugin. Their work focused on improving the interaction with the Elasticsearch API, including implementing fallback mechanisms when the index is deleted or when remote requests fail. They added a test suite for specific scenarios like index deletion and category filtering. Additionally, the user addressed the "orderby rand" functionality.
queryintranetquery-enginewp-querywordpress-api
10up/distributor
Dec 2018 - Feb 2019
Share content between your websites.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 2 PRs, 10 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Ritesh primarily focused on refactoring and improving content distribution functionality within the WordPress plugin. They addressed the handling of embedded URLs, removing filters to ensure actual URLs are pushed and pulled instead of generated markup. They also made modifications to the REST API and various plugin components to correctly handle and process content, including media and meta data, during content syndication. Furthermore, they added a new action hook for improved meta data handling.
intranetcontent-distributorwordpresssyndicationcontent-management
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