# Kahvi Patel

[kahvipatel.com](http://kahvipatel.com) | [github.com/iamkahvi](http://github.com/iamkahvi) | [linkedin.com/in/kahvi-patel](http://linkedin.com/in/kahvi-patel)

## Experience

*(references available on request)*

**Senior Software Developer - Shopify** *September 2021 - Present*

- Owned architecture and technical direction for a client-side analytics library (JS SDK) used broadly across Shopify's ad-tech products, capturing 1B+ events/day
- Built instrumentation and downstream tooling on top of the resulting event stream, including backend work to support analysis and consumption of the data
- Led several tech-debt migrations on the library, including a web server component rewrite that introduced caching and delivered a significant performance improvement
- Implemented client side joining for marketing analytics view of attributed sessions
- Refactored ElasticSearch indexing for marketing automations

**Web Developer Intern - Shopify** *January 2021 - April 2021*

- Developed features for email marketing automations
- Researched and presented on use of cloud-based development tools

**Web Developer - Digital Health Lab** *March 2020 - December 2020*

- Led development of mobile health research project; Pathverse
- Implementing frontend web applications with React JS, Redux, Typescript
- Implementing RESTful API with Django and AWS

**Frontend Developer - Referral Saasquatch** *September 2019 - December 2019*

- Worked with React JS and Ember JS frameworks
- Generated UI mock-ups using Figma
- Developed system for frontend testing using Percy

**Data Analytics Developer - Revela Systems** *May - August 2019*

- Developed tools to generate executable data transforms
- Updated existing python module and implemented CLI for parsing CSVs

**Data Management Assistant - Loving Spoonful** *April - August 2018*

- Created [Volunteer Robot Web App](https://kahvipatel.com/posts/volunteer-robot/) to manage shifts for volunteer programs
- Led data collection process using Google Forms and Sheets

## Education

**University of Victoria** - Victoria, BC BSc, Computer Science / Sept 2017 - August 2021

## Skills & Hobbies

- Write and maintain a [personal blog](http://kahvipatel.com) (since 2015) and [monthly newsletter](https://www.newsletter.kahvipatel.com/) (since 2022)