Summary
Neil Patel is a Senior Software Engineer based in the New York City area with 10 years of experience delivering full-stack and systems software across defense and cloud environments. At Lockheed Martin he has driven measurable performance gains—reducing page load latency by 40% and accelerating feature delivery—while leading integrations between Django/React apps and external chatbot services. His background spans C++, Python, Makefiles, Linux, and AWS, with a track record of improving onboarding and reliability through modular rearchitecture and analytics tooling adopted by 100+ teams. Early experience at Amazon and Verizon sharpened his production/event-driven systems and operational reporting skills. Comfortable moving between low-level modeling and user-facing web work, he combines pragmatic engineering with clear communication to align stakeholders and ship on tight schedules. Colleagues would note he often finds high-impact, non-obvious optimizations by diving into logs and developer tools rather than rewriting systems from scratch.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Electrical and Computer Engineering & Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Electrical and Computer Engineering & Computer Science at Rutgers University
English, Spanish, Gujarati