Smit Patel
Engineering at Instawork
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolSmit Patel is an engineering leader with 15 years of experience building full-stack applications and shaping product architecture across startups and large education tech teams. He co-founded Flynx and later served as Software Architect at BYJU'S, where he helped scale learning platforms before moving to his current engineering role at Instawork in Bengaluru. Smit has a strong roots in open source—contributing to KDE/Krita and upstream Calligra projects—where he implemented citation and bibliography features that blend UI polish with backend text-processing logic. His background spans hands-on feature delivery, bug fixes, and code refactors, demonstrating a pragmatic focus on maintainability and user-facing tooling. A B.Tech. in Computer Science, he pairs entrepreneurial grit with deep implementation experience in reference handling and document-generation subsystems that are often overlooked but critical to content-heavy applications.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Sheth C.M. High school, GandhinagarBachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science at Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology
English, Hindi, Gujarati
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Github Skills (12)
c-language10
qt-framework10
front-end-development10
cprogramming-language10
qt10
text-processing10
nodejs6
php6
cancan6
laravel6
ruby-on-rails6
authorization6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
KDE/krita
Jun 2011 - May 2012
Krita is a free and open source cross-platform application that offers an end-to-end solution for creating digital art files from scratch built on the KDE and Qt frameworks.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:53 commits in 10 months
Contributions summary:Smit primarily contributed to the implementation and enhancement of a citation feature within the Krita application. Their work involved creating the UI and backend implementation for managing citations, including functionalities to insert, manage, and configure bibliography entries. They also addressed and fixed bugs related to citation tags, and refactored code to improve the ToC and Bibliography generators. This indicates a focus on the text and reference handling capabilities within the software.
artend-to-enddigital-artlinuxgui
byjutech/identity-node-sdk
May 2020 - Jun 2021
Client library for Identity service
Contributions:1 review, 1 PR, 10 pushes in 1 year 1 month
client-libraryidentity-servicenodejsidentitysdk-js
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