Software Engineer West Lafayette, IN

Neel J. Patel

(219) 315-3692 · neelp2023@gmail.com

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Full‑stack SWE focused on performant mobile and AR experiences. I love turning ambiguous problems into crisp shipping roadmaps, profiling until jank disappears, and building systems that hold up under real users. Currently co‑founding Respond XR (Cal Hacks Social Impact Award).

Experience

Co‑Founder · Respond XR

San Francisco, CA · Oct 2025 – Present

AI · AR · Mobile

Pioneered a mobile platform that turns bystanders into first responders via real‑time AI + AR; <15s guidance activation, ±2 mm chest‑targeting, 100–120 BPM metronome, 5–6 cm depth coaching—driving ~3× faster critical action in internal drills.
AR glasses port: OpenXR + phone co‑processing with glass‑to‑glass latency <100 ms, 6‑DoF calibration for stable overlays, and hands‑free controls; pilot users reported 73% higher preference vs. handheld.
Won Cal Hacks 12.0 Social Impact Award; launched public demo + source and grew early pilot sign‑ups with high on‑site engagement.

Software Engineer Intern · MiraPhoto

New York City, NY · Jul 2025 – Sep 2025

React Native · TypeScript

Delivered full booking & review flow (25 reusable TS components, RTK Query, image lazy‑load), cutting first paint to 1.1s and onboarding 3k users month‑1.
Instituted GitHub Actions CI/CD with 130 Jest tests (87% coverage), halving production bugs and enabling same‑day hot‑fixes.

Events Co‑Chair · Project RISHI

West Lafayette, IN · Aug 2024 – Present

Community · Ops

Collaborate with student team to plan and execute health & social impact initiatives; coordinate logistics, outreach, and partner engagement.
Conduct research and data collection to support sustainable solutions in healthcare, education, and access to clean water.

National Development IT Member · BAPS

Robbinsville, NJ · Jun 2022 – Present

Web · DevOps

Led front‑end efforts and volunteered across IT to support apps and websites serving national & regional communities.
Employed Jenkins and DevOps tooling to push & deploy FE/BE codebases, coordinating a nationwide volunteer developer community.
SWE add‑on: Dockerized services, added Terraform‑based environments, SSO + role‑based access, CDN caching, and monitoring (Sentry/Grafana), reducing MTTR and improving Lighthouse a11y/perf across flagship sites.

Projects

Find Your Nature (F.Y.N)

Web

Jul 2024 – Aug 2024

Web app for exploring national parks with reviews to guide trip decisions.

Front end with HTML/CSS/JS; NPS + Google Maps APIs; Firebase for storing reviews.
Fast UX with client caching and clean UI details.

Live Source

Education

Purdue University

B.S. in Computer Engineering · Minors: Computer Science, Computer Information Technology

GPA: 3.43 / 4.00

Aug 2023 – May 2027 (Anticipated) · West Lafayette, IN

Relevant Coursework

Data Structures & Algorithms · Object‑Oriented Programming with C · Python & Data Science · DAQ and Systems Control

Skills

Languages

Java JavaScript TypeScript Swift Go Python SQL R

Frameworks

React / React Native Node / Express Redux Flask Django PyTorch TensorFlow GraphQL

Tools & Platforms

AWS (Airflow, S3) Docker Kubernetes Jenkins Terraform Google Test Bazel Webpack Babel Power BI MATLAB Git / Linux MySQL · PostgreSQL · MongoDB HTML · CSS