Summary
Snehal Patil is a Software Engineer Architect with 11 years of experience, currently shaping software and systems at NVIDIA from the San Francisco Bay Area while advising and pre-seed investing in ML/AI, robotics, and women’s health startups. She brings deep embedded and systems expertise from roles at MIPS and Qualcomm—designing cache-coherency and accelerator logic, automating trace/disassembly flows, and contributing to SoC bring-up and formal verification. Equally comfortable leading mobile teams, Snehal has a strong iOS/Swift background, Scrum practice, and a track record of mentoring engineers and fostering cross-functional collaboration. Her toolkit spans low-level processor design to higher-level product and startup strategy, reflecting a rare blend of hardware-aware systems thinking and product-minded software architecture. Outside engineering she mentors and coaches, including meditation coaching, which she leverages to build resilient teams and thoughtful leadership.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Startup school, Startup school at Y Combinator
Master of Science (MS), Computer Engineering, Master of Science (MS), Computer Engineering at North Carolina State University
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Electronics, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Electronics at Walchand College of Engineering(A Govt. Aided Autonomous Institute),SANGLI-M.S