Ravi Patel
Staff Engineer
Austin, TX
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About
Ravi is a staff engineer with 12 years of experience building and scaling distributed systems at some of the world’s largest technology companies. He specializes in system design, infrastructure architecture, and technical team leadership, with a deep focus on reliability, performance, and developer experience.
Previously at Google and Meta, Ravi led cross-functional engineering teams responsible for services handling billions of requests per day. He is passionate about mentoring engineers, establishing engineering best practices, and building platforms that empower product teams to move faster. He is passively exploring staff or principal engineer roles at companies solving meaningful technical challenges.
Experience
- Architected a multi-region data pipeline processing 2B+ events/day with 99.99% uptime SLA.
- Led a team of 12 engineers building the next-generation internal developer platform on Kubernetes.
- Drove adoption of TypeScript and React across 15 internal tools, improving developer productivity by 30%.
- Designed and built the real-time analytics infrastructure for Instagram Stories, supporting 500M+ daily users.
- Mentored 8 engineers and established the team’s technical design review process.
- Reduced infrastructure costs by 25% through service consolidation and autoscaling optimizations.
- Built microservices for the order fulfillment pipeline, handling 50K+ transactions per minute during peak.
- Implemented CI/CD pipelines and automated testing frameworks that reduced deployment time by 60%.
- Contributed to the migration from monolithic architecture to event-driven microservices on AWS.
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Resume summary
- Deep distributed systems experience at Google, Meta, and Amazon at massive scale.
- Led architecture design and performance optimization projects with measurable impact.
- Strong technical leadership and mentoring track record across multiple teams.
Cover letter
I am excited to apply for this role. My background in building and scaling distributed systems aligns closely with the challenges your team is tackling. I have led infrastructure projects that improved reliability and performance at scale. I look forward to bringing my experience to your team.
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Recruiter notes
Very senior candidate. System design expertise is exceptional. Coordinate with hiring manager for staff-level loop.