Saurabh Patel
Senior Engineering Team Lead at CodeCombat
India
Summary
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Top SchoolSaurabh Patel is a Senior Engineering Team Lead with 12 years of experience building and leading full-stack engineering teams, currently driving technical delivery at CodeCombat. He progressed through hands-on roles from software engineer to senior lead, pairing people leadership with deep implementation experience across front-end and back-end systems. His open-source contributions to the popular Discourse platform demonstrate practical expertise in UI improvements, SEO-focused crawler work, API bug fixes, and feature work that spans the stack. Having held senior engineering roles at Traveloka, ShareChat, and HackerRank, he brings product-focused engineering judgment in fast-paced consumer and developer-facing products. Based in India with a Computer Science background from DA-IICT, he balances mentorship and delivery while still contributing code—an uncommon blend for a leader at his level. Colleagues can expect a pragmatic, execution-oriented lead who also invests in incremental technical quality and community-driven improvements.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology
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Github Skills (16)
ruby-rails10
javascript10
rails10
ruby10
ember9
postgresql8
ui-design7
forum7
ux-design7
elasticsearch6
api6
php6
qt6
amazon-web-services6
inline6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
discourse/discourse
Nov 2018 - Jul 2019
A platform for community discussion. Free, open, simple.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:25 commits, 28 PRs, 54 comments in 8 months
Contributions summary:Saurabh made several contributions focused on both front-end and back-end aspects of the Discourse platform. They implemented features such as logging user name changes, improved topic stats translation, and fixed a bug related to badge granting. Additionally, the user worked on improving the crawler view for better SEO and made changes to category layouts. Furthermore, they addressed bugs related to API key handling and improved UI components.
discourserailsforumjavascriptruby
mrfinch/online_complaint_portal
Feb 2014 - Apr 2014
Contributions:66 commits, 17 issues in 1 month
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