Mihir
Patel

I'm a software engineer with 9+ years of experience designing systems that have to be right in production, from web applications and backend services to the data platforms behind them.

I work across the path from ambiguous business problem to running system, and I choose the tools to fit the problem. Along the way, I've delivered:

• Automation: turned weeks-long manual processes into automated pipelines that finish in hours
• Data platforms: consolidated fragmented sources into a unified analytics layer with Kafka and Airflow, cutting data access latency by 35%
• AI transformation: moved high-touch review and troubleshooting into AI-assisted workflows, cutting manual effort by 40–70%
• Solution architecture: made the design calls, led cross-functional builds, and mentored engineers through to production

AI is the newest layer on that foundation. Models are only as reliable as the data and services around them, so I've been taking on AI and ML projects as a natural extension of my core work.

You can see that range in my public projects:

• Software and web: a real-time card fraud checker on AWS serverless and Redis, and a microservices system built with Python, Go, React, and PostgreSQL
• Data engineering: an offline open-banking analytics engine and a health-record ingestion pipeline with schema validation
• AI: a flight recorder for AI coding agents on AWS, and a fully local RAG pipeline that cut context 948× with 12/12 correct answers
• ML: currently deepening my MLOps practice on SageMaker, from model registry to drift detection and safe rollouts

I'm most interested in Senior, Staff, and Principal engineering and solution architecture roles in finance, capital markets, and fintech, especially where AI is becoming part of the core product. Always happy to connect, especially if you're building something interesting.