Sailesh Patnala
Technical Product Manager at Pave
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolSailesh Patnala is a technical product manager and former founding engineer with 11 years of experience building data-driven financial products that scale. At Pave he helped pioneer AI-powered cashflow analytics to expand credit access for underserved consumers and SMBs, transitioning from hands-on engineering to product leadership. Previously at BlackRock he built high-performance data pipelines and NLP tooling that cut processing times from hours to minutes, blending distributed systems, Scala/Spark, and Python. He holds advanced CS training from Cornell and a BS from UC Davis, and brings startup grit from co-founding a nonprofit tech group while bridging research-grade engineering with customer-facing product strategy. Less obvious: he combines deep backend optimization chops with a keen focus on equitable financial outcomes, making technical trade-offs through the lens of social impact.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science and Engineering at University of California, DavisMaster of Engineering - MEng Computer Science, Master of Engineering - MEng Computer Science at Cornell University
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Github Skills (7)
continuation5
api3
react2
fintech2
typescript1
javascript1
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Github contributions (5)
trev77/ComAIdian
Mar 2018 - Sep 2020
A continuation of the ComAIdian project from ECS171 Fall 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 4 pushes in 2 years 6 months
continuationecsfall
saileshpatnala/media-nft
May 2021 - May 2021
Contributions:5 commits, 2 PRs, 4 pushes in 3 days
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