Paras Patel
Pune
Summary
Staff Software Engineer with 14+ years of experience designing and developing scalable web applications, microservices, and data pipelines. Specialized in cloud-native architectures on AWS and GCP, with certifications in both platforms (AWS SAA, GCP ACE). Proven expertise in building data quality frameworks, automating infrastructure, and integrating enterprise-grade authentication, and SSO solutions. Strong domain focus in the Energy and Utilities industry, with a solid foundation in OOP, DevOps, and modern data engineering practices.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Staff Software Engineer
Uplight
Pune
03.2024 - Current
- Utilized Databricks and Fivetran for automated data ingestion; built and maintained Delta Live Tables (DLT) pipelines for batch and real-time data processing.
- Built micro frontend applications from scratch using React, HTML, Webpack, Module Federation, and CRACO, enabling a modular and scalable UI architecture.
- Automated Docker image deployments to GCP Cloud Run using Terraform and CircleCI; mapped services to custom domains via infrastructure-as-code.
- Designed and implemented adapter-based microservices using Python (FastAPI), Firestore, Pub/Sub, and Kong for event-driven, asynchronous communication.
- Created cookiecutter templates to standardize and accelerate service development workflows.
- Integrated Auth0 for authentication and SSO across micro frontends and services; implemented SAML and OIDC with support for both SP-initiated and IdP-initiated flows using Terraform.
- Implemented fine-grained authorization using Amazon Verified Permissions (AVP); authored Cedar policies for ABAC and developed a dynamic UI for policy assignment.
- Leveraged GitHub Copilot (agent mode) to accelerate refactoring efforts, eliminate technical debt, and drive codebase efficiency.
Associate Software Architect
UST (Client: Uplight USA)
Pune
04.2022 - 02.2024
- Orchestrated micro services using Airflow, reducing manual operational overhead by 90% through workflow automation and scheduling.
- Designed and implemented a framework for automated data quality checks using Soda Core and AWS Athena, enabling proactive issue detection and alerting.
- Led a technical epic to evaluate and migrate AWS workloads to GCP, ensuring service parity, and long-term cost optimization.
- Identified inefficiencies in the thermostat enrollment flow, preventing excessive API usage, and achieving an annual cost savings of $360,000.
- Built fully automated CI/CD pipelines using CircleCI, CloudFormation (AWS), and Terraform (GCP) to ensure consistent and secure deployments.
- Utilized a wide range of GCP services, including Cloud Functions, Cloud Run, Compute Engine, App Engine, Pub/Sub, Dataflow, DataProc, Secret Manager, BigQuery, Firestore, GCS, and IAM; primary tech stack: Python 3.9, Docker on GKE, and Pytest.
Technical Leader
UST (Client: Uplight USA)
Pune
04.2020 - 03.2022
- Built microservices using AWS Chalice and Python 3.x, establishing 3-tier architecture patterns and enforcing company-wide code quality standards.
- Developed data pipelines for raw telemetry data ingestion from GCP Pub/Sub, Azure Event Hub and Web Socket; normalized data intervals to 5-min cadence using Pandas.
- Designed PySpark DAGs in Airflow to summarize usage patterns and identify customer behaviour trends.
- Enabled multi-device analytics by building ETL pipelines in Apache Airflow to aggregate telemetry, weather, and enrollment data, generating Hourly Device Reports for usage insights and optimization
- Migrated long-running batch jobs from EC2 On-Demand to EC2 Reserved Instances, reducing cloud costs by approximately 75%.
- Built EV usage and account-level aggregation pipelines using Matillion for enriched downstream analytics.
- AWS stack: Lambda, DynamoDB, Redshift, RDS, SQS, SNS, S3, Step Functions, Athena, Kinesis Firehose, EventBridge, CloudFormation, CloudWatch, IAM; Python, Pytest.
Associate Leader
UST (Client: FirstFuel USA)
Pune
04.2017 - 03.2020
- Developed a full-stack file processing and monitoring application using Python Flask (backend) and ReactJS (frontend).
- Built a new marketing-facing frontend in Ruby on Rails, including reusable filters (min/max, date ranges, tree search) for advanced UI functionality.
- Implemented asynchronous workflows using Rails ActionCable for file downloads, long polling, and real-time push notifications.
- Customized open-source libraries such as jquery-idleTimeout, jquery-file-upload, and bootstrap-treeview to meet specific product requirements.
- Tech stack: Ruby 2.X, Rails 4.X/5.X, RSpec, Cucumber, ReactJS 16, Flask, Python 3.6, Pytest, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery, Flake8.
Senior Software Engineer
UST (Client: FirstFuel USA)
Pune
01.2015 - 03.2017
- Developed multi-tenant UI applications in Ruby on Rails, supporting multiple clients under a unified platform.
- Created a custom branding gem to enable dynamic theming and styling across applications.
- Built a reusable table control gem to centralize table UI components and enforce consistency across internal tools.
- Standardized and modularized charting features by consolidating Highcharts code into a centralized Rails gem.
- Played a key role in refactoring monolith applications into modular, reusable internal gems (e.g., ff-forms, ff-auth, ff-logging, ff-util, ff-cms), improving maintainability and team velocity.
- Tech stack: Ruby 1.9, Rails 4.X, RSpec, Cucumber, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery.
Software Engineer
Multiple U.S.-based clients via Aretove, L&T Infotech and Blue Shores
Pune
12.2010 - 01.2015
- Aretove Technologies Pune | Jul 2013 - Jan 2015
- L&T Infotech Pune | Sep 2012 - Jul 2013
- Blue Shores Solutions | Dec 2010 - Sep 2012
- Delivered full-stack applications using Ruby on Rails, MySQL, and Nginx, with deployments on AWS and DigitalOcean.
- Built backend systems from scratch, including database design, API integrations (e.g., Facebook Graph), background jobs using Sidekiq, and data visualization with Highcharts.
- Implemented CI/CD pipelines using Capistrano, managed hosting environments, and contributed to infrastructure automation.
- Focused on performance optimization, feature enhancements, and agile sprint delivery for media, analytics, and marketing platforms.
- Technologies: Ruby 1.9–2.x, Rails 3–4.x, MySQL, Redis, Capistrano, Devise, Sidekiq, HTML/CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, Git, AWS
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Information Technology
SRESCOE - Pune University
Kopargaon Maharashtra06.2010
Skills
Languages & Frameworks:
Python, FastAPI, Flask, Ruby on Rails, ReactJS, TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3, jQuery, Bootstrap, MaterialUi
Cloud & DevOps:
AWS (Lambda, S3, Redshift, DynamoDB, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, SQS, SNS, Step Functions, EventBridge, Athena, API Gateway, IAM, Secret Manager, Cloud Formation, Chalice)
GCP (Cloud Functions, Cloud Run, GKE, Compute Engine, App Engine, Pub/Sub, Dataflow, DataProc, BigQuery, Firestore, GCS, IAM)
Data Engineering & Analytics:
Apache Airflow, PySpark, Databricks, Delta Live Tables (DLT), Fivetran, Matillion, Pandas, ETL/ELT pipelines, Batch & Streaming Data Ingestion
Other Tools:
SSO Integration (Auth0: SAML & OIDC, AVP), Terraform, CircleCI, Jenkins, Git, Poetry, Pip, Pyenv, Cookiecutter, Docker, Pytest, RSpec, Cucumber, Postman, Swagger, Locust
Certification
- 2024-03 AWS Certified Solution Architect Associate
- 2022-12 Google Cloud Platform Associate Cloud Engineer
Timeline
Staff Software Engineer
Uplight
03.2024 - Current
Associate Software Architect
UST (Client: Uplight USA)
04.2022 - 02.2024
Technical Leader
UST (Client: Uplight USA)
04.2020 - 03.2022
Associate Leader
UST (Client: FirstFuel USA)
04.2017 - 03.2020
Senior Software Engineer
UST (Client: FirstFuel USA)
01.2015 - 03.2017
Software Engineer
Multiple U.S.-based clients via Aretove, L&T Infotech and Blue Shores
12.2010 - 01.2015
Bachelor of Engineering - Information Technology
SRESCOE - Pune University
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