Shren Patel
SHREN PATEL
Shren Patel
- An Inside Look -
Hey! I'm Shrenil (Shren) Patel. Software Engineer and author/co-Creator of the popular Webtoon Original Webcomic, AXED! Be it making something cool, eating something cool, finding something, or even learning something cool. If you're working on some cool tech you bet I want in!
Contact
Education
Bachelor of Software Engineering
University of Waterloo
Waterloo, Ontario
Sept 2012 - Apr 2018
Ontario High School Diploma
St. Joseph's Catholic Secondary School
Cornwall, Ontario
Jan 2010 - Jun 2012
Awards & Scholarships
University of Waterloo President’s Scholarship
University of Waterloo
Waterloo, Ontario
Sept 2012
Bursary for academic prowess and continued education to post-secondary
Royal Canadian Legion, Cornwall Branch
Cornwall, Ontario
Jun 2012
Dr. Gunther Platner Memorial Award for Excellence in Physics
Cornwall Collegiate Vocational School
Cornwall, Ontario
Apr 2010
Honor roll for each consecutive semester throughout high school
St. Joseph's Catholic Secondary School
Cornwall, Ontario
Sept 2009 - Jun 2012
Podcasts, Interviews & Reviews
Animation Station Podcast - Episode 161
Hello monsters, humans, and ASPers! On this week's popping episode, Josh is joined by Shren and Emi to discuss their super funny comic 'AXED'. Join us as we discuss the plot, characters, French fries, video games, 'Between the Lions', and more.
What was the inspiration for the comic? What type of story do they want to share? What do they have against kids? Tune in to find out! (06/10/19)
The Comic Source Podcast - Episode 844
The Webcomics Weekly #27 (Review)
“Axed” is a webcomic with an amusing concept: a modern-day monster hunter searching for employment in a world where humans and monsters live in peace. The concept lends itself to some amusing jokes about temp work and seeking employment, as well as some neat monster designs, but this episode marks what seems to be the start of an actual story... (03/19/19)
Others
Hobbies & Interests
- Writing //Comedy, Drama, Sci-fi
- Video Games //CRPG, Strategy, Casual
- Hackathons / GameJams //Really interested in OpenCV & image processing ATM!
- Board Games
- Camping
- Brain Teasers & Riddles
- Traveling //been to like ~20 countries
- Cartoons + Anime
- Bad Puns //Try me! I'm a master. I guess you could call me a PUNdit
- Bad Pickup Lines
- Exploring //Cities, Wilderness
- Creating sick beats
- Ai competitions
- Chatting with friends online
Skills
SKILLS
How I pay my bills
Profficient Languages
- Python 2/3
- C/C++
- Javascript
- Java
- HTML/CSS
- Swift
Familiar Languages
- Objective-C
- C#
- Visual Basic
- VB .Net
- Arduino
- Processing
- MIPS assembly
- ARM assembly
- uC++
- GML
Frameworks + Libraries + SDKs
- Node.js
- React
- React-Native
- AngularJS
- jQuery
- Express
- AJAX
- Bootstrap
- Mustache
- Underscore.js
- SASS
- OpenCV
- DJango
- Selenium
- SQLAlchemy
- Cacoa
- Cocos2d-x
- Andoid SDK
- iOS SDK
- Windows SDK
- Mac OSX SDK
Database
- MySQL
- PostgreSQL
- MongoDB
- SQLite
Tools
- RegEx
- Windows
- UN*X //Mac OSX, Ubuntu...
- Git
- SVN
- git-svn
- Github
- Bitbucket
- SourceTree
- TortoiseGit/SVN
- JIRA
- Trello
- FogBugz
- ReviewBoard
- Heroku
- AWS
- Vim
- XCode
- Eclipse
- Netbeans
- Sublime Text 2
- Jetbrains IDEs //Pycharm, Webstorm
- Android Studio
- FileZilla
- Cyberduck
- Sequel Pro
- MAMP
- Postman
- Adobe Creative Suite
- MSOffice
- Balsamiq
Other
- Ability to quickly learn and execute multiple new tasks simultaneously
- Cooperative, adaptable and tolerant of others; follows instructions and regulations without supervision
- Excellent written and verbal English skills. Told by every English teacher to become a writer!
- I can name the capital of most countries //Try me
Experience
EXPERIENCE
Started From the Bottom Now We Here
Webtoon Original - AXED
Co-Creator, Head Writer
Remote
Jun 2018 - Present
- Made software to write quicker and more effectievly. Creating program that automatically manipulates images for uploading. This saved hours on upload times.
- Wrote consistently creative and comedic scripts under tight deadlines.
- Managed team of artists and editors to bring episodes twice weekly.
- Amassed 330k+ subscribers. 4mil+ monthly views. Featured on podcasts.
- Approached by major animation studio for TV adaptation.
Python, Java, JavaScript, HTML, CSS (for internal productivity tools)
Coursera
iOS Mobile Developer
Mountain View, California
Jan 2017 – Apr 2017
- Developed features that improved downloading course content for offline use. User survey proved it to be the most valuable and most used feature.
- Create an artificial intelligence that is capable of answering course questions.
Swift, JavaScript, React, React-native
Desire2Learn
Software Developer/Designer
Toronto, Ontario
May 2016 – Aug 2016
- Designed and implemented a flash card module that generates personal review sessions based on how well a user ‘feels’ they have answered. This allowed users to memorize exponentially quicker and also allowed their understanding of a subject to be accurately quantified
Javascript, HTML, CSS, React, React-Native, AngularJS
SpringBoard Data Management
Mobile Developer
Mississauga
Sept 2015 – Dec 2015
- Re-hauled and shipped a mobile iOS application based on specifications of a client company. Implemented secure authentication for accounts. Reduced app load times by 80%
- Implemented a solution to the dubbed ‘impossible’ problem of parsing deductions PDFs. This project made the jobs of 33 employees of the client redundant
Objective-C, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, RegEx, Selenium
Minted LLC
Software Developer
San Francisco, California
Aug 2014 – Dec 2014
- Developed a feature that extracted metadata from uploaded images and converted them to a printer-safe colour space. Resulted in a 50% reduction to reprint requests received
- Made conversion loss trackers, increased supported image formats, made quick fixes to major bugs that deleted user data, fixed major site issues during Cyber Monday loads
Python 2, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, SQL, SQLAlchemy
Transgaming Inc.
Graphics and Portability Developer
Toronto, Ontario
Jan 2014 – Apr 2014
- Worked on creating dynamic libraries to emulate Windows functionality on Mac OSX & Linux used to improve the functionality of the Cider engine
- Eliminated all bugs in the Cider engine associated with the release of OSX 10.9
- Fixed various types of bugs and implemented quality of life features in games that millions of users play (Guild Wars 2, Eve Online, Metal Gear Rising: Revengence, Train Simulator 2014)
- Replaced deprecated code in the main Cider engine to make it compile on the Mac OSX Mavericks SDK
C++, C, Objective-C, Mac OSX SDK, Windows SDK
Masstech Inc.
Quality Assurance Analyst
Markham, Ontario
May 2013 – Aug 2013
- Helped release several separate builds to clients on time
- Created test cases for new technologies,created various automated testing scripts for a variety of operations that had to be done manually, and carried out SQL database operations