Krish Patel
Vice Chair at NC State Student Government
Cary, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolKrish Patel is a CS graduate student at NC State with nine years of hands-on software experience spanning cryptography, HPC, quantum ML, and applied AI. He has interned and worked at high-assurance organizations including the NSA and Palantir, and contributed backend improvements and tests to the NSF-backed Expertiza peer-review web app. Comfortable in both research and production contexts, Krish has applied evolutionary algorithms to NLP, implemented cryptographic/HPC systems, and explored quantum ML during a summer at ORISE. He holds TS/SCI with polygraph clearance, enabling work on sensitive defense tech and government-focused deployments. Active in student government as Vice Chair for Centennial Campus community initiatives, he blends technical depth with leadership and campus engagement.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at North Carolina State UniversityHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Cary High School
English, Gujarati, Spanish, Hindi
Github Skills (7)
testing10
rspec10
ruby-rails10
rails10
ruby10
peer-to-peer9
peer9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
expertiza/expertiza
Mar 2017 - Apr 2017
Expertiza is a web application through which students can submit and peer-review learning objects (articles, code, web sites, etc). The Expertiza project is supported by the National Science Foundation.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Krish primarily focused on refactoring and improving the `late_policies_controller.rb` and related `penalty_helper.rb` files. They addressed issues related to penalty calculations and policy validation, including the handling of maximum and per-unit penalties. Additionally, the user added new tests related to survey functionalities and responses in `survey_spec.rb` to improve testing coverage. These changes indicate a focus on improving core functionality and testing within the application.
nationalpeer-reviewexpertiza-wikidjangoexpertiza
darshanypatel/First_Repo
Sep 2016 - Feb 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 11 pushes, 4 branches in 5 months
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