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Kritesh Patel

@kriteshpatel

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Founding Member & Technical Lead, Staff Backend Engineer, IIT Delhi

India

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What I'm looking for

I’m looking for a job where I can have a deep architectural impact — ideally building scalable distributed systems and backend platforms that serve real user needs at scale. I enjoy working in product-driven environments where engineering decisions are closely tied to business outcomes.

I'm Kritesh Patel, a product-oriented tech leader with 10+ years of experience building distributed systems, data-intensive platforms, and event-driven architectures. As a founding member, led backend architecture for a VC-backed edtech platform adopted by 800+ schools and 500K+ users. Led the design and implementation of CQRS pipelines, schema-first API generators, and WebSocket-based services for large-scale, high-concurrency environments. Consistently improved performance, scalability, and developer velocity—achieving 99.98% uptime and a 4x boost in engagement. Known for full-stack ownership, mentoring teams, and delivering business-aligned technical solutions.

Throughout my career, I have focused on full-stack ownership and mentoring teams to deliver business-aligned technical solutions. At The Dot Studio, I partnered with over 30 schools to revamp their marketing strategies and engineered a GitHub OAuth-integrated CMS backend that significantly reduced engineering support requests. My work at Tekie, which was acquired by Uolo, involved leading the design of a microservices-based education platform that improved uptime and enabled rapid feature rollouts, showcasing my ability to drive impactful results in high-concurrency environments.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Head of Engineering

Current

The Dot Studio

Jun 2023 - Present (2 years 1 month)

Partnered with 30+ mass premium schools to revamp their marketing & branding strategy.

Engineered a GitHub OAuth-integrated CMS backend in Node.js, enabling content managers to self-serve updates, which reduced engineering support requests by 60%.

Productized website generation using ReactJS, reducing engineering effort by 3–4x across clients and accelerating GTM speed by 2 weeks per school.

AWS Services Node BeautifulSoup Lighthouse ReactJS

Founding Member & Technical Lead

Tekie - Acquired by Uolo in 2022

Nov 2018 - May 2023 (4 years 6 months)

Led design of microservices-based education platform (500K+ students, 800+ schools), improving platform uptime by 99.98% and enabling rapid feature rollout. Developed an innovative backend framework using Java, Node.js, GraphQL, MongoDB, and AWS services.

Java Node GraphQL MongoDB AWS CircleCi Sentry Redis Amazon SQS WebSockets

Backend Lead

Wonderment Apps

May 2016 - Nov 2018 (2 years 6 months)

Created a YouTube-style streaming platform for KCON.TV, covering database design, data migration, and backend development using Node.js and Express.js, supporting 2M+ monthly active users. Designed and deployed a scalable system for KCON.TV live events to handle 10K+ requests/sec using AWS EC2, ELB, CloudFront, and Redis for rate limiting and caching, achieving a p95 latency of 200ms.

Node AWS EC2 ELB Cloudfront Redis Java ATG SVN Ant

Software Engineer

iProf India

Jul 2015 - Apr 2016 (9 months)

Led the transition from LAMP to MEAN stack, redesigning the backend, resulting in a 50% reduction in API latency and significantly improved scalability. Designed and conducted the migration from MySQL to MongoDB with a custom schema, improving data access speed by 40% and enabling more flexible, evolving content models.

LAMP MEAN stack MySQL MongoDB PayU Analytics Push Notifications

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

IIT Delhi

B.Tech + M.Tech, Engineering

Activities and societies: Badminton, Gym, Browsing, Travelling

Completed a dual degree program at IIT Delhi, focusing on advanced engineering concepts and research. Gained expertise in various technical domains relevant to modern technology and innovation.