Kush Patel
Co-Founder & CTO at theCut
Woodbridge, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKush Patel is a Forbes 30 Under 30-recognized technologist and Co-Founder & CTO with 11 years of experience building consumer-facing platforms from startup ground-up. As CTO of theCut since 2016 and a Techstars alum, he blends product-led engineering with hands-on development and has advised on developer strategy for Square. His background spans early roles at Yahoo, Latch, and Microsoft, giving him full-stack fluency and strong systems foundations despite a formal degree in mechanical engineering. Based in Woodbridge, VA, he’s known for turning merchant and retail pain points into scalable, production-ready services and for bringing startup rigor to platform and developer experience.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
BS Mechanical Engineering, BS Mechanical Engineering at University of Virginia
Github Skills (42)
asynchronous10
orm10
nodejs10
odm10
mongodb10
modeling10
location-services9
python9
location9
swift8
bdd8
typescript8
test-server8
testing8
objective-c7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
yahoo/guerilla
Oct 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:28 commits, 22 PRs, 28 pushes in 5 months
test-servertestingandroidiosjava
thekushpatel/mosaic-dental
Jan 2016 - Feb 2016
Contributions:23 pushes, 1 branch in 9 days
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