# Piyush Patel

> Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/piyushpatel1

A+ Software Engineering Lead specializing in design and development of Micro-services, Big Data, and Distributed Systems with extensive experience in scaling systems with high availability (four nines+), low latency, and optimal resource utilization while processing billions of QPS per day.

Specialties: Java, Python, Linux, Micro-Services, Kafka, ElasticSearch, Hbase, Redis, Postgres, Docker, Apache spark, SaaS, PaaS, NoSQL, Data Structure, and Algorithms.

## Work Experience
### Principal Software Engineer @ Microsoft
Jan 2018 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### Principal Software Engineer @ CA Technologies
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area
Technology: JAVA, Elastic search, Kafka, Zookeeper, Docker swarm, Hadoop, Yarn, Micro Services, Spring, Apache Spark, Scala, lambda architecture, SaaS, python

Jarvis: Architected and built a robust analytics environment tailored for data scientists to streamline model development and data exploration.

### Principal Software Engineer @ RMS
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Senior Software Engineer @ RMS
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Senior Software Engineer @ Sapient
Jan 2010 – Jan 2014

### Founder @ Private Business
Jan 2010 – Jan 2011
Image Matching Software: Engineered an ML-based image comparison and QR recognition tool. Successfully sold to CatPrint.

People Tracking AI: Developed a video analytics platform for retail business intelligence; acquired by ElixirCT.

### Research Assistant @ University of Michigan
Jan 2008 – Jan 2009
Wireless Ad-Hoc Optimization: Leveraged NS (Discrete Event Simulator) to develop and test C-based distributed algorithms for dynamic channel allocation. Specialized in protocol performance for wireless, local, and satellite networks.

### Software Developer @ Q.I Press Controls
Jan 2006 – Jan 2007
Developed web controls.


## Education
### Computer Science
University of Michigan


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/erpiyushpatel
- GitHub: https://github.com/piyushkp
- Portfolio: http://imagiko.com

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Last updated: 2026-04-12