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Alex Patel

@alexpatel

Lead Software Engineer at Cygnus Education who architected multi-tenant APIs serving 50+ clients with 99.95% uptime.

At Cygnus Education, I architected multi-tenant APIs using Spring Boot, Spring Data JPA, GraphQL, and REST. They serve 50+ clients with sub-500ms response times and 99.95% uptime.

I led a team of eight engineers and designed six DDD, event-driven Spring Boot microservices with Apache Kafka. I also raised test coverage to 85%+ and automated CI/CD with GitHub Actions and Terraform.

At Responsive, I led the refactor of a 1.5M LOC monolithic Java application into eight Spring Boot microservices. The work increased deployment frequency from monthly to daily and cut time-to-market by 45%.

At DMI, I built financial platform APIs with Spring Boot and Spring Data JPA that processed 10M+ daily transactions. I also developed a SaaS platform with React and Redux, handling 2M+ requests per day.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Lead Software Engineer

Current

Cygnus Education

Jan 2023 - Present (3 years 9 months)

Architected multi-tenant APIs and led a team of 8 engineers, improving delivery velocity by 50% and test coverage to 85%+. Optimized database performance and migrated 2M+ records with zero downtime.

Spring Boot Spring Data JPA GraphQL REST PostgreSQL Oracle Kafka DDD Event Driven Architecture GitHub Actions Terraform OAuth OpenID Connect Spring Security React TypeScript WebSockets SonarQube JUnit5 Mockito

Senior Software Engineer

Responsive

Jun 2018 - Dec 2022 (4 years 6 months)

Led refactor of a 1.5M LOC monolith into 8 microservices, increasing deployment frequency 30-fold and cutting time-to-market by 45%. Grew team from 5 to 10, mentoring 4 into tech leads.

Java Spring Boot DDD CQRS Event Driven Architecture Microservices JUnit5 Mockito SonarQube SQL Server PostgreSQL GitHub Actions Jenkins Kubernetes Helm Terraform AWS Azure Application Insights Datadog

Software Engineer

DMI

Aug 2016 - May 2018 (1 year 9 months)

Built financial platform APIs processing 10M+ daily transactions with 99.95% uptime and full ACID compliance. Designed 40+ REST endpoints and improved database performance significantly.