# Vatsa Patel

> Microsoft AI

Location: Seattle, Washington, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/vatsa

Hi, I am Vatsa. I am someone with a profound passion for solving problems through software. With strong fundamentals in CS, I like to work on software solutions that can scale. I have had the chance to take on challenging problems across the stack and can wear multiple hats.

## Work Experience
### Member of Technical Staff @ Microsoft AI
Jan 2025 – Present | Redmond, Washington, United States
AI Lab

### Software Engineer @ Microsoft
Jan 2022 – Jan 2025 | Redmond, Washington, United States
Azure Serverless Platform

### Software Engineer @ Newfront
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco, California, United States

### Software Engineer @ Microsoft
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Seattle, Washington, United States
Azure Compute - Availability Platform team

### Software Engineer @ MealMe, Inc.
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco, California, United States
• Optimized backend services, reducing the app load time from 17s to 2s, boosting app retention by 3x.
• Architected and developed custom crawlers to crawl metadata for 1.5M restaurants in the US from 15 different services.
• Developed an algorithm using NLP to merge the same restaurant's menu from different services to accurately calculate cheapest deals with 92% merge accuracy.
• Designed a custom search engine using fastText NLP and BM25 accelerated by NMSLIB.

### Software Engineer @ 3D Room Space Inc
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Los Angeles, California, United States
• Developed core services for the rental platform to automate leasing, manage listings, deploy contracts on the blockchain. 
• Rearchitected the backend services to serverless environment reducing projected server costs by 60%.
Tech Stack: Node.js, GraphQL | React Native, React, Gatsby | DynamoDB | GCP Kubernetes Engine, Cloud run

### Software Engineer @ Multiple Companies
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area
• UniversityEats: Built a service to automatically analyze spendings from all linked bank accounts and set spending goals.
• PodSource, SF: Helped move to a scalable serverless architecture reducing monthly bills by 72%.
• Built a tool to automatically tag and push docker images to 8 different Container Registries with multiple logins.
• Project Bacchus, NY: Helped move to a serverless architecture and built Home Feed, in-app messaging & dashboard.

### Software Engineer @ A D Patel Institute of Technology
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018
Learning Management System:
• Designed & developed a platform that automates and solves existing paper-based problems of Class Scheduling, Information sharing, Evaluations, Asset Management in which lead & mentored team of 5 engineers.
• Engineered highly-available backend services that are architected to scale even on low-end hardware.
• Deployed an in-house private Cloud cluster using OpenStack that can scale-up or scale-down based on load also providing IaaS for other student projects.
• Created a custom network authentication service integrating with internal IAM and auto-assigning bandwidth and QoS based on access level.
• Designed UI/UX interface designs that got featured on Dribbble. bit.ly/2TMf0n0

Tech Stack: React, React Native, Electron | NodeJS, Golang | MemSQL, HBase, Aerospike.

### Software Engineer @ A D Patel Institute of Technology
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018
ADIT Alumni Hub
• Designed & Developed a social platform from scratch to allow Alumni to reconnect with each other, discover other alumni in the same region and profession, share jobs & events.
• Got 6,400 users within the first 3 months.
• Built ETL setup for highly inconsistent student data from 10+ data sources, implemented Data Mining techniques to integrate data of more than 17000 students into a single database.
	
Tech Stack: React, JQuery | PHP, NodeJS | MySQL, Memcached

### Founded a startup @ Smarq Technologies
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016
• Ideated a Startup at Qualcomm Labs incubator for which was selected in ‏‏the ‏top 10 startup ideas out of thousands of applicants.
• Envisioned & Designed a tightly-knit ecosystem of smart sensors capable of various automation sequences within a ‏‎ home based on local location of user.
• USP: Smarq Sense - A smart system that generates ever-adapting ‏‎‏‎automation sequences for each user.

### Software Engineer @ Purva Couture
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015
• Single-handedly developed a Business Operations system that managed from Sales to Production to Deliveries handling 700+ clients & revenue of $1M+.


## Education
### Master's degree in Computer Software Engineering
San José State University

### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science
San José State University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/vatsapatel

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Last updated: 2026-03-31