Shawn Patel
Co-Founder & CTO at Almond
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolShawn Patel is a Co-Founder and CTO with eight years of engineering experience building robotics and AI-powered products from seed-stage startups to Google hardware teams. Currently leading Almond, he focuses on human-capable robots to automate manufacturing, drawing on prior founder experience scaling Camphor’s AI lead-nurturing platform backed by Pear VC. His background spans hardware and software—PCB verification at Google, mobile and ML projects at startups, and leading electrical and software systems for UC Berkeley’s Formula SAE race car. Comfortable across embedded systems, mobile, and ML, he bridges physical product engineering with data-driven productization. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Shawn combines hands-on technical execution with practical startup leadership and a knack for turning research-grade systems into production-ready hardware.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
Gujarati
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (9)
spritekit6
google-assistant-sdk6
ios6
raspberry-pi6
swift6
dialogflow-es6
actions-on-google6
api-ai6
swift-playgrounds6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
shawnpatel/UV-Safe
Aug 2020 - Jan 2021
Contributions:29 commits, 32 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
camphorco/n8n
Apr 2024 - Jul 2024
Free and source-available fair-code licensed workflow automation tool. Easily automate tasks across different services.
Contributions:7 reviews, 2 PRs, 4 pushes in 2 months
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