Summary
Vivek Patel is a software engineer based in Austin, Texas with 10 years of hands-on experience building full-stack web and mobile applications, specializing in Ruby on Rails. He has driven architecture and migration work—from converting Rails monoliths to service-oriented systems to splitting front-ends into separate Angular/React apps—and led Ionic and Firebase migrations for real-time mobile features. At companies like EverlyWell, ID90 Travel, WP Engine, and Babylist he focused on e-commerce, partner APIs, and scalable consumer platforms, often as an early engineer shaping data and subscription architectures. Comfortable across the stack, he blends backend craftsmanship with front-end single-page app experience and practical DevOps-minded upgrades. His training spans a Rails-focused bootcamp and a science background in biochemistry and health IT, which informs his work on healthtech product domains. He is active on GitHub and brings a pragmatic, migration-first mindset to modernizing legacy systems while shipping user-facing features.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Health Information Technology Spring Certificate Program, Health Information Technology Spring Certificate Program at The University of Texas at Austin
Ruby on Rails, Backend Engineering, Ruby on Rails, Backend Engineering at The Iron Yard
English, Hindi, Gujarati