Meelan Patel

About Me

Associate Software Engineer in the financial services industry. I mainly work with Python and Ansible, but I have touched many other languages/technologies.

Location

Durham, NC
White Pigeon, MI
Education
    University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
    June 2016 - August 2020
    degree
    Bachelor's
    major
    Computer Science
    coursework
    Data Structures and Algorithms
    Database Management Systems
    Web Systems
    User Interface Development
    Game Development
    Foundations of Computer Science
    Intro to Computer Organization
    Discrete Math
    Introduction to Statistics and Data Analysis
    Calculus
Work Experience
    Fidelity Investments
    Associate software Engineer
    Durham, NC, United States, 27722
    January 2021 - present
    company
    Fidelity Investments
    title
    Associate software Engineer
    overview
    • Automated process of hot-adding CPU and RAM to virtual machines, saving 260 hours of manual effort annually • Supported internal instance of AWX, allowing users to easily perform maintenance on 100s of servers • Created monitoring Ansible playbooks and custom Python modules to comply with audit requirements • Performed R&D of Ansible Galaxy to improve security and scalability of internal collections repo • Migrated workflows to AWX to support the decommission of HP Operations Orchestration software • Deployed containerized web applications using Jenkins and Rancher to improve their reliability and scalability • Built a status dashboard for cloud services in Angular to decrease volume of status inquiries via chat
    BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD OF MICHIGAN
    IT INTERN
    Southfield, MI, United States of America
    June 2019 - August 2019
Fun Fact

I'm a first-generation college student.

Skills
Languages
EnglishGujaratiHindiSpanish
Technical skills
c#c++cssgithtmljavajavascriptpythonreact.jssql
Skills
EclipseMicrosoft OfficeOperating Systems: Linux, UnixUnity3dVisual StudioWindows
Gigs / Freelance
    Stock Market Simulator (UMich)
    Lead Developer
    February 2018 - February 2018
    Instagram Clone (UMich)
    Developer
    October 2019 - October 2019
    Personal Website Project
    Lead Developer (https://meelanp.github.io/)
    June 2018 - August 2018
    Video Game Development (UMich)
    Lost Fantasy (https://royalguardstudios.itch.io/lost-fantasy)
    February 2020 - April 2020
Hobbies
Basketball
Video Games
Traveling
Technology