Kevin Patel
Director - Software Apps Engineering at Yahoo
Sunnyvale, California, United States
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Top SchoolKevin Patel is a seasoned software engineering leader with 13 years of experience driving Yahoo Mail’s iOS product strategy and technical execution, currently serving as Director of Software Apps Engineering in Sunnyvale. He combines hands-on iOS development expertise—with a track record of launching initial apps, supporting multi-account IMAP, and shrinking app bloat—to lead teams through large-scale migrations from Objective-C to Swift while keeping crash rates under 0.01%. A developer-turned-manager, he mentors engineers, balances delivery with developer learning (formalizing a quarterly week for skill growth), and architects reusable solutions that enabled other Yahoo properties to embed Mail experiences with minimal overhead. Kevin is comfortable across front-end and backend concerns, which lets him propose scalable architectures for unique product constraints and rapidly roll out features to millions of users. Notably, he led an app revamp that grew DAUs from 10M to 14M while increasing app size by only 2 MB, demonstrating pragmatic technical leadership at scale. He favors experimenting with bleeding-edge technologies while maintaining solid fallback plans to ensure stability for large user bases.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology BombayBachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering at SARDAR VALLABHBHAI PATEL INSTITUTE OF TECH.,VASAD 041
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Github Skills (26)
calculator9
computer-vision8
android8
tvm7
video-processing7
audio-processing7
machine-learning7
inference7
pitch7
deep-learning7
streaming7
mouse-events6
stream-processing6
macos6
neumorphism6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
chatappcodepath/ChatAppAndroid
Nov 2016 - Apr 2017
Contributions:1 release, 24 PRs, 41 pushes in 5 months
kevin36524/kevin_resume
Jan 2017 - Mar 2024
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 3 months
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