Nirmal Patel
Co-Founder & CEO at Playpower Labs
Gujarat, India
Summary
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Top SchoolNirmal Patel is an EdTech founder and data scientist with over a decade of experience building AI-driven learning products and large-scale assessment systems. As Co-Founder & CEO of EdOptimize and Smart Paper, and Chief Data Scientist at Playpower Labs, he has led projects that digitized over 100 million worksheets and impacted nearly 5 million learners in India. He blends learning engineering, machine learning, and process analysis to turn diverse educational data—handwriting, speech, event logs, assessments—into actionable insights and scalable products. His work on Battleship Numberline and iterative A/B testing demonstrates a rigorous, experimental approach to game-based learning and motivation. A former Red Hat Certified Engineer, he pairs deep technical roots with practical research that has earned international recognition in educational data challenges. Nirmal often bridges research and product: his teams publish peer-reviewed findings while shipping APIs and platforms used by national education organizations.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Information and Communication Technology, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Information and Communication Technology at Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology
Github Skills (78)
bookdown10
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javascript9
knitr9
react9
science8
testing8
rstudio8
documentation8
data-science8
r-package8
amazon7
strings7
machine-learning7
tiled7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
PlaypowerLabs/fuzzymineR
Jul 2019 - Dec 2021
Contributions:11 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
nirmalpatel/eduminer
May 2017 - Aug 2019
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
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