Brown University · Engineering → Software & Product

I build softwarepeople use,and ship it.

A Brown engineer who builds full-stack software, ships to production, and leads teams. I care about the whole arc — the systems underneath and the product people actually touch. Targeting SWE and product roles in big tech.

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Profile

The short version

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I like building things end to end — the data layer, the backend, the interface, and the decisions about what's worth building at all. That instinct shows up everywhere: full-stack apps and ML pipelines, but also captaining a team to a national title and running a student publication as editor-in-chief.

Right now I'm a data & software engineer at Eli Lilly, shipping tools used across the department. I move fast, sweat the details, and care as much about whether a product lands with people as whether the code is clean. Next: SWE or product at a place building at scale.

Education

Brown University
B.S. Mechanical Engineering — GPA 3.96 / 4.00
M.S. Computer Science — intended, 2027–2028
APIA Nakupuna Foundation Scholarship · Sep 2023 – May 2028
CourseworkData Structures & Algorithms · Systems · Machine Learning · Applied Mathematics
Ohm above the clouds at dawn

Above the fog — where the clearest thinking happens.

Experience

Where I've built & led

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Experience

Eli Lilly

Data & Software Intern · May 2026 – Present

Developed an internal application using an LLM-powered extraction pipeline. Deployed the tool, improving accessibility among scientists.

PythonFastAPILLM APIsBackend
Experience

Yale — AMGEN Scholar

Engineering Researcher · data pipelines · Summer 2024 & 2025

Built a Python / FlowKit data pipeline to process high-dimensional flow-cytometry (.fcs) files, quantifying and visualizing 8 markers across experimental conditions — surfacing trends that drove follow-up experiments. Full ABRCMS travel award; Springer Nature co-author (under review).

PythonFlowKitData PipelinesData Viz
Experience

Brown — UTRA Research

Data / Environmental Research · Fall 2024

Cleaned and structured ion-chromatography data from 1,500 samples with Python / Pandas, normalizing PFOA concentrations and organizing metadata for downstream analysis across soil and sand systems.

PythonPandasData Cleaning
Experience

Brown Journal of Healthcare Advancement

Editor-in-Chief → Director · Sep 2023 – Present

Run a student publication like a product: led editorial teams, workshops, and review pipelines across three shipped cycles; now oversee operations, logistics, and budget as Director.

LeadershipProduct OpsEditorial
Experience

Brown Men's Volleyball

Outside Hitter · Player → Captain · Sep 2023 – Present

Captained Brown to its first-ever national championship (D1 AAA) — leading in-game tactical calls and scouting. Also ran the off-court operation: travel, budget, roster, and social that drove 500K+ views.

LeadershipStrategySocial · 500K+
Also
X-Ray Reading ShadowUniversity Orthopedics · Spring 2025
SURF Scholar — Miller-Jensen LabYale School of Medicine · Summer 2024
Pediatric Clinic Volunteer & ShadowRhode Island Hospital · 2023–24
Materials Researcher (published abstract)Stony Brook University · Summer 2022

Projects

Things I've shipped

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Project

Cairn — Course Copilot

Solo build · PRD + live AI product · 2026

Turns Brown's ~5,400-section shopping period into a decision: describe your constraints, get grounded course suggestions, then compare them on a board that flags schedule conflicts and total workload. The ranker never invents a rating and conflict detection is deterministic (no LLM time-math) — backed by a full PRD and a safety-engineered serverless backend (reserve-before-spend budget ceiling, atomic rate limiting, fail-closed fallback).

Product / PRDAI grounding & evalJavaScriptServerlessLLM guardrails
Project

sideOut — Jump Lab

Solo build · computer vision · 2026

Turns one side-view phone video into a full jump readout: MediaPipe pose estimation (33 points/frame) extracts height, reach, approach velocity, and load/takeoff/landing timing as an annotated skeleton overlay. Shipped like a product — fully typed, 87%-covered test suite, Docker, CI/CD; local-first, no cloud.

PythonComputer VisionMediaPipeOpenCVpytest · CI/CD
Project

Where Consumer Banking Breaks

Self-initiated · consumer-fintech analysis · 2026

Analyzed 446,614 CFPB credit-card and deposit complaints over 36 months through a reproducible pipeline that normalizes out bank-size effects. Found the modal card complaint is now about the dispute-resolution process, not the charge (74% of dispute complaints), with relief odds ranging 21–59% across issuers on the same issue. Closes on a tracked, evidence-first product recommendation.

Product StrategyConsumer FintechData AnalysisPython / pandasNLP Clustering
Project

A Royalty Lens on 2026

Self-initiated · biopharma investment strategy · 2026

A self-initiated investment point of view framing three 2026 biopharma royalty ideas — radiopharmaceuticals, non-opioid pain, and cardiometabolic — as one deliberately risk-spread portfolio rather than three hot drugs. Structured around a durability / risk / structure buy-box and built entirely from public, cited sources; closes on the questions that would pressure-test the thesis.

Investment StrategyPortfolio ConstructionBiopharmaMarket ResearchDeck Design
Project

RAG Evaluation Harness

Solo build · LLM / retrieval systems · 2025

A benchmarking harness over SEC 10-K filings that isolates retrieval vs. generation failure modes so a RAG pipeline can be tuned on evidence, not vibes. Benchmarked 6+ configs (chunk size, embedding model, top-k) on a 30-question eval set; a cross-encoder reranker gave the biggest single-step gain in recall and faithfulness.

ChromaDBRAGASDeepEvalGemini APIPython
Project

This Site

Solo build · design + front-end · 2026

The portfolio you're reading — designed and built from scratch: an immersive dark canvas, editorial typography, a magnetic custom cursor, scroll-reveal motion, and a signature commit-line divider. Shipped end to end and deployed on Vercel.

Next.jsReactTypeScriptTailwindFramer Motion
Project

Aero Sim Lab

Solo build · numerical simulation + UI · 2024

A physics sandbox pairing a 3-DOF rocket-trajectory simulator (RK4) with a transient heat-conduction solver — documented governing equations, tested numerical cores, and an interactive UI for fast parameter exploration.

PythonNumPyStreamlitNumerical Methods

Toolkit

What I work with

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Languages

PythonTypeScriptJavaSQLMATLAB

Frameworks & Tools

React / Next.jsFastAPITailwindPandasNumPyPytestStreamlit

Data · ML · LLM

LLM APIsChromaDBRAGASDeepEvalGemini API

Tools & practice

Git / GitHubFlowKitProduct senseTeam leadership

Contact

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Let's build something people actually use.

ohm_patel@brown.edu