Suhail Patel
Senior Staff Software Engineer (Director) at Monzo Bank
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolSuhail Patel is a Senior Staff Software Engineer and platform leader with 12 years’ experience building and scaling high-throughput, distributed services on AWS for fintech and transport products. At Monzo he shapes platform strategy and reliability for over 2,000 microservices, driving projects from Envoy rollout and Cassandra estate management to a £20M crowdfunding launch on the same infrastructure. A hands-on individual contributor, he specialises in Go, Kubernetes, Prometheus, Envoy, Cassandra and Etcd, and has improved core libraries such as Monzo’s Go ORM for measurable latency and CPU wins. He also brings practical QA and test-automation experience from open-source work on widely used projects like pymemcache, underlining a focus on correctness as well as performance. Based in London, he pairs senior stakeholder engagement with deep technical investigation and public speaking to influence platform direction across the company.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Computer Science, First Class with Honours, BSc, Computer Science, First Class with Honours at The University of BirminghamA Levels in Computing, Economics & Maths, A Levels in Computing, Economics & Maths at Loxford School of Science and Technology Sixth Form
English, Gujarati
Github Skills (10)
pytest10
python10
memcached10
mocking10
testing10
serialization9
serializer9
serializable9
json9
deserialization9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
pinterest/pymemcache
Sep 2016 - Oct 2016
A comprehensive, fast, pure-Python memcached client.
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:8 commits, 1 PR, 1 comment in 15 days
Contributions summary:Suhail focused on improving the testing infrastructure of the pymemcache client. They added a failing test case for MockMemcacheClient, then proceeded to fix the implementation of the mock client to resolve the failing test. They also made changes to handle bytes strings correctly within the tests and used cPickle as a replacement for the standard pickle library. The primary focus of their work was to ensure the reliability and correctness of the memcached client through comprehensive testing.
python-memcachedpythonmemcachememcached
monzo/cassandra-reaper
Jun 2020 - Aug 2021
Automated Repair Awesomeness for Apache Cassandra
Contributions:10 releases, 1 review, 14 PRs in 1 year 2 months
repairapachecassandraapache-cassandra
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