Markan Patel
CTO at Innovikas
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMarkan Patel is a CTO and seasoned engineering leader with 12 years of experience building AI-driven, cloud-native platforms and apps for healthcare and biotech startups from pre-seed to Series A. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he combines hands-on software engineering—contributing to open-source projects like HashiCorp’s Terraform provider—with strategic product and infrastructure leadership at Innovikas. His background includes building end-to-end cloud data platforms at Benchling and human-in-the-loop ML systems at PicnicHealth that won Google’s ML startup competition, demonstrating a knack for translating research into production. Markan pairs full-stack technical depth across AR, mobile/web, and cloud infrastructure with a biomedical engineering perspective from the University of Michigan, enabling practical solutions for real-world data problems.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science & Biomedical Engineering, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science & Biomedical Engineering at University of Michigan
Github Skills (12)
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terraform-enterprise9
cloud-computing8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
hashicorp/terraform-provider-tfe
Nov 2020 - Nov 2020
Official HCP Terraform and Terraform Enterprise provider, maintained by HashiCorp. Provision HCP Terraform or Terraform Enterprise - with Terraform!
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 7 commits, 3 PRs in 13 days
Contributions summary:Markan primarily focused on enhancing the `tfe_organization` resource within the Terraform provider. Their contributions included adding the `cost_estimation_enabled` parameter, which involved modifying the resource schema, the create and update functions. They also made adjustments to the testing infrastructure to validate the new parameter and implemented a new test case to cover the full functionality of the `tfe_organization` resource.
tfe-providerproviderterraform-cloudprovisioncloud
alexottoboni/Taco-Bell-Item-Generator
Jul 2017 - Nov 2020
Generates fake Taco Bell Items
Contributions:9 commits, 6 PRs, 12 pushes in 3 years 4 months
belltaco
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