Suhail Patel

Suhail Patel is a Senior Staff Software Engineer (Director) at Monzo Bank, based in the United Kingdom.1 He has been working at Monzo since July 2018, where he manages and leads large-scale projects across various Platform Teams.1

Professional Experience

At Monzo, Suhail's responsibilities include:

• Leading projects to optimize Monzo's microservices platform
• Working with VPs, C-Suite, and ExCo to align technology with company ambitions
• Specializing in deep investigations (reliability engineering) and software performance
• Developing Monzo's long-term Platform and Technical Strategy
• Implementing platform foundations to support over 2000 microservices
• Managing the Apache Cassandra estate underpinning the bank

Suhail's technical expertise includes Golang, Kubernetes, Envoy Proxy, Cassandra, Etcd, and Amazon Web Services (AWS).1

Previous Experience

Before joining Monzo, Suhail worked as:

• Lead Software Engineer at Citymapper (October 2014 - July 2018)
• Software Engineer at OnApp (2010 - October 2014)

Education

Suhail holds a BSc in Computer Science with First Class Honours from The University of Birmingham (2010-2013).1

Additional Information

Suhail is known for:

• Conducting public speaking engagements worldwide at meetups and conferences
• Participating in hiring, mentoring, and on-call duties at Monzo
• Being proficient in both English and Gujarati

His LinkedIn profile describes him as an efficient, wise, ambitious, independent, and responsible programmer with a strong determination to fulfill his goals.1