Nikhil Patel
Software Engineer at Kleiner Perkins
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
2 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at University of Southern CaliforniaThe Nueva School
Chinese
Github Skills (2)
java4
spring4
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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