Arjun Patel
Staff Software Engineer
I build reliable distributed systems and the tooling teams need to ship them.
Based in Remote · UTC
- 2022 — Now
Drift Systems
Staff Software Engineer
- 2018 — 2022
Layer Cake
Senior Backend Engineer
- 2014 — 2018
Northstar Health
Software Engineer
The work, in their words.
- Years
- 11+
Arjun is a Staff Software Engineer who has spent the last decade making large backend systems faster, safer, and more legible to the humans who run them. He has led on platform reliability at two unicorn startups and contributed to several widely-used open-source libraries in the Go ecosystem. His writing and conference talks focus on the operational side of software — incident review, observability, and team cognitive load.
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Go
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TypeScript
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PostgreSQL
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Kubernetes
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OpenTelemetry
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gRPC
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Terraform
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Redis
Background
Where I’ve worked, sorted newest first.
Staff Software Engineer
2022 → NowDrift Systems
Current role
Senior Backend Engineer
2018 – 2022Layer Cake
Software Engineer
2014 – 2018Northstar Health
Let's build something good.
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