Hurshal Patel
Software Engineer at Braintrust
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHurshal Patel is a seasoned software engineer with 11 years of experience building distributed systems and production services from startup to scale in the San Francisco Bay Area. Currently at Braintrust and founder/CEO of Innovikas, he combines hands-on backend engineering with fractional CTO work for pre-seed to Series A startups. His career includes leadership roles at GoodRx and deep engineering work at SingleStore, where he built browser-to-database protocols and managed cloud deployments across AWS, GCP, and Azure. An active contributor to open source—helping grow the Gitcoin web app by building data aggregation, reporting, and S3-integrated mail workflows—he brings practical experience integrating data pipelines and external services. Trained in EECS at UC Berkeley and experienced as an instructor, he blends strong systems fundamentals with mentorship and product-focused execution. Colleagues rely on him to turn ambiguous problems into reliable, operational solutions that scale.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
Github Skills (14)
ag10
aggregate10
aggregates10
aggregations10
python10
aggregator10
django10
s3-bucket9
amazon-s39
csv9
aws-s39
open-source8
boa8
ethereum7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
gitcoinco/web
Dec 2017 - Dec 2017
Grow Open Source
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 12 comments in 2 days
Contributions summary:Hurshal primarily contributed to the back-end logic and management commands of the Gitcoin web application. Their work involved adding and modifying an activity report command, which extracts data from bounties and tips and prepares it for email distribution. The user also made changes to the model and mail system, and updated the application to upload the report to S3. These changes suggest a focus on data aggregation, reporting, and integration with external services.
ethereumbountiesgitcoinethgrow
choochootrain/nixos-config
Jun 2016 - Oct 2018
Contributions:22 commits, 27 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
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