Urvil Patel
Site Reliability Engineer, Observability at Priceline
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolUrvil Patel is a Site Reliability Engineer with 9 years of experience building and operating large-scale, cloud-native systems across startups and enterprise environments. He has designed and shipped high-throughput, multi-tenant time-series storage and control/data plane components in Go, led cost-saving re-architectures that cut operational spend by up to 50%, and automated AWS provisioning with Terraform and Ansible. Comfortable across the stack, Urvil combines deep GCP and DevOps skills with hands-on Unix and Java experience, and has scaled production services handling hundreds of millions of time series and hundreds of thousands of QPS. An active open-source contributor, he helped pioneer an IPTables integration for Open Policy Agent, contributing foundational build and deployment tooling for the project. Currently based in Canada and pursuing advanced study in computer science, he blends rigorous engineering with practical reliability and observability practices.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Concordia UniversityBachelor's degree Information Technology, Bachelor's degree Information Technology at L.D. College of Engineering
Gujarati, Hindi, English, French
Github Skills (10)
go10
iptables10
dockers9
open-policy-agent9
apidoc9
makefile9
api9
opa9
docker9
cicd7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
open-policy-agent/contrib
May 2019 - Sep 2019
Integrations, examples, and proof-of-concepts that are not part of OPA proper.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:41 commits, 25 PRs, 9 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Urvil primarily contributed to setting up the foundational structure of the project, including the initial commit, the addition of a build script and Makefile, and the creation of core packages like `opa` and `iptables`. They focused on establishing the project's core functionality by creating the `Rule` struct and implementing rule construction methods and adding a webhook to interact with OPA, also added Dockerfile and Makefile for building and running the controller. This suggests a focus on backend logic and deployment infrastructure.
opaopen-policy-agentcontribintegrationsproof-of-concept
urvil38/kubePAAS
Jun 2018 - Mar 2021
Contributions:1 release, 41 commits, 24 pushes in 2 years 9 months
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