Shardul Patel is a Director of Engineering based in Mumbai with a decade of experience building and leading high-impact software teams, primarily in fintech and consumer apps at WazirX and Crowdfire. He progressed from iOS developer to principal architect and now heads engineering, blending hands-on mobile expertise with strategic platform architecture. Notably, he has contributed to open-source iOS tooling—refactoring and modernizing CFAlertViewController by porting key components to Swift and improving compatibility for modern iOS devices. His background combines deep mobile UI craftsmanship with large-scale system design, enabling pragmatic solutions that balance product velocity and technical robustness. A B.Tech. in Computer Engineering anchors his technical foundation and a career trajectory that emphasizes evolving leadership alongside continuous coding involvement.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Engineering at Shrinathji institute of technology & engineering
It is a highly configurable iOS library which allows easy styling with built in styles as well as extra header and footer views so that you can make extremely unique alerts and action sheets.
Role in this project:
iOS Developer
Contributions:10 releases, 156 commits, 2 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Shardul primarily contributed to the development of the CFAlertViewController, an iOS library for creating custom alerts and action sheets. Their contributions involved code refactoring, bug fixes, and the integration of Swift into the project by converting the CFAlertAction class and the CFAlertViewController class to Swift. Further improvements included fixing XIB loading issues, adding support for iPhone X, iOS 10.3, and Swift 4.2, and improving the action sheet presentation animation.
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Shardul Patel - Associate Director Of Software Engineering