Piyush Patel
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPiyush Patel is a Principal Software Engineer in San Francisco with 13 years of experience designing and operating high-availability, low-latency distributed systems that process billions of QPS per day. He has driven reliability and performance improvements across storage, data warehouse, and risk-management platforms at Microsoft, CA Technologies, and RMS, consistently delivering four-nines uptime through scalable architecture and resource-optimized solutions. As an entrepreneur he built ML-driven image matching and people-tracking products that were acquired, demonstrating product-minded engineering and a knack for turning research into commercial systems. Early research work in wireless ad-hoc optimization and low-level driver development gives him deep grounding in protocol and systems-level performance tuning that informs his large-scale designs today. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic architecture decisions that balance latency, availability, and operational cost.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of Michigan
Github Skills (15)
restful10
search-engine10
elasticsearch10
opensearch10
java10
fedex6
mls5
elastic4
kubernetes-cluster4
kubernetes4
kibana4
ruby3
k8s3
helm3
go2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
piyushkp/DataStructure-Java
Aug 2014 - Nov 2018
Contributions:908 commits, 730 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 3 months
piyushkp/MaxPain
Jan 2022 - Mar 2022
Yahoo! Finance market data downloader (+faster Pandas Datareader)
Contributions:2 PRs, 17 pushes, 3 branches in 2 months
pythonsecfinancemarket-datastocks
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