Summary
Het Patel is a software engineer with 10 years' experience designing and shipping scalable distributed systems, cloud-native backends, and data/ML infrastructure across companies like Tesla, Nokia, Samsung, Altair, and Medtronic. He specializes in containerized microservices, CI/CD automation, observability, and high-throughput data pipelines using Python, Go, Java, Kubernetes, AWS, Kafka, Spark, and Airflow, with hands-on MLOps and LLM deployment experience. Het has a proven track record of reducing compute costs through multiprocessing optimizations and improving system reliability by building observability stacks and robust test/QA frameworks. Based in Palo Alto with an MS from Santa Clara University, he combines client-facing deployment expertise with deep technical troubleshooting of Linux and distributed environments. Colleagues describe him as pragmatic about automation and relentless about fault tolerance—often seeking smarter ways to detect anomalies and tighten end-to-end pipelines.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor's degree Computer Science and Engineering at Nirma University
Master of Science - MS Computer Science and Engineering, Master of Science - MS Computer Science and Engineering at Santa Clara University
Gujarati, Hindi, English