Shlok Patel
Backend Engineer at FamPay
Surat, Gujarat, India
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Top SchoolShlok Patel is a backend engineer with six years of hands-on experience, currently building services at FamPay and based in Surat, India. An NIT Surat undergraduate and former Google Summer of Code participant, he blends solid data structures and algorithms knowledge with practical backend and frontend skills. He has contributed to the well-known open-source Zulip project, implementing GitHub webhook features, fixing race conditions, and improving topic and navigation behavior—demonstrating care for robust, user-facing server functionality. Comfortable shipping end-to-end features, he favors tackling concurrency and integration edge cases that many engineers overlook.
6 years of coding experience
Divine Child High School
Stackoverflow
43reputation
99reached
0answers
2questions
Github Skills (21)
python10
webhooks10
api-design9
apim9
django9
database8
api8
database-administration8
databases8
admin8
git7
chat7
collaboration7
django-views6
django-templates6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
zulip/zulip
Sep 2021 - Jul 2022
Zulip server and web application. Open-source team chat that helps teams stay productive and focused.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:61 reviews, 15 commits, 41 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Shlok primarily contributed to the Zulip server's backend functionality. Their work includes implementing features related to GitHub webhooks, such as handling discussion messages. They also made changes to realm export functionality and implemented checks to prevent special characters in topics. Furthermore, the user addressed race conditions in topic muting and improved keyboard navigation within the recent topics section.
pythonweb-applicationcollaborationzulipjavascript
bare-cli/bare
Sep 2021 - Jan 2022
A boilerplate manager
Contributions:8 releases, 1 review, 66 commits in 4 months
boilerplatecligo
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