Nikhil Patel
Software Development Engineer II at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNikhil Patel is a versatile software engineer with nine years of experience building full-stack and machine learning systems across startups and large companies, currently contributing at Whatnot and part of Kleiner Perkins’ 2022 Engineering Fellow cohort. He has shipped production features at Stripe that saved merchants an estimated $7M/year and built robust automation and monitoring to prevent significant operational losses. Nikhil combines backend, frontend, and ML work—from ASR and video pipelines at Tribute to time-series benchmarks and mobile health tooling during research at USC—demonstrating both product impact and research rigor. As a student leader he scaled a university startup incubator, boosting founder success and diversity while mentoring teams on technical and go-to-market decisions. Based in California, he enjoys collaborative environments, volunteers in STEM education, and brings a creative side as a freelance DJ that fuels his teamwork and event-driven product instincts.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at University of Southern CaliforniaBachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer Science at KJ Somaiya College of Engineering, VidyaviharHigher Secondary Certificate (HSC) Science, Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) Science at St. Joseph's High School
Hindi, English, Gujarati, Kutchi
Github Skills (1)
mobile3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
nikhil-mp96/Hyperdroid
Oct 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:16 commits in 22 days
nick-hil/docker-handbook
May 2020 - Jan 2021
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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