Sunny Patel
Staff Software Engineer at Raft
Little Elm, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolSunny Patel is a Staff Software Engineer with 15+ years of hands-on experience building resilient, secure systems across Python, C#, JavaScript, and Java, currently supporting mission-critical applications for the U.S. Air Force at Raft/Kessel Run. He has a proven track record of turning slow, complex processes into highly efficient pipelines—one refactor reduced a multi-day calculation to under two minutes—and routinely architects automation, CI/CD, and containerized solutions on AWS. Comfortable leading teams and shipping production services, Sunny has worked on SSO platforms protecting millions of users and has applied OpenAI tools to large-document analysis. A lifelong learner and pragmatic problem solver, he contributes to open-source tooling (e.g., improving a Firestore Google Apps Script wrapper) and pairs curiosity with a “lazy programmer” ethos that favors durable, labor-saving automation.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree University Studies w/ emphasis in Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree University Studies w/ emphasis in Software Engineering at The University of Texas at ArlingtonSoftware Engineering, Software Engineering at Rochester Institute of Technology
Spanish, Hindi, Gujarati, French
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Github Skills (22)
javascript10
google-apps-script10
firestore10
firebase10
json9
python9
apidoc9
linux9
api9
html9
google-sheets8
lib8
php6
dictionary6
css6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
grahamearley/FirestoreGoogleAppsScript
May 2018 - May 2021
A Google Apps Script library for accessing Google Cloud Firestore.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 releases, 12 reviews, 22 commits in 3 years
Contributions summary:Sunny's primary contribution centered on standardizing the codebase using the `standardjs` tool and adding linter comments to maintain code quality. They also implemented and refined the wrapper for the Firestore API, handling the translation of data types and ensuring correct document creation and updates. The user's work included adding functions for querying data, and the final commits refined the codebase to enhance its stability and usability. This work improved the project's code structure and consistency.
google-apps-scriptgoogle-sheetsfirestorefirebase-firestoregoogle
LaughDonor/FirestoreGoogleAppsScript
May 2018 - Oct 2022
A Google Apps Script library for accessing Google Cloud Firestore.
Contributions:2 PRs, 52 pushes, 15 branches in 4 years 5 months
google-apps-scriptfirestoregoogleapps-scriptfirebase
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