Software engineer in San Jose, working on backend and infrastructure.
I'm on the Helix team at Figure AI, where I help develop the AI system in Figure's robots.
I build Go and TypeScript APIs, design cloud-native systems, and automate CI/CD pipelines. I care about clean code, clear architecture and systems that keep running.
I'm doing an M.S. in Software Engineering at San Jose State University, where I also finished my B.S. I've worked on mobile apps with SwiftUI and Jetpack Compose, full-stack web apps, and open-source distributed systems in Go.
Outside of work I sketch UX ideas and automate everyday tasks. I speak English, Gujarati, Hindi and Spanish.
Email me at np.patelneel@gmail.com.
Selected projects
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Inkwell 2026
A real-time collaborative editor. Several people edit one document with live cursors, offline edits merge on reconnect, and any version can be restored.
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Tally 2026
A multi-tenant feedback board for B2B teams, with isolated data per organization, roles, Stripe billing and usage limits.
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ThrottleX 2024–25
An open-source distributed rate limiter in Go with Redis and in-memory backends. It handles over 1M requests per second.
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Leechy 2025
A mobile marketplace with a Ktor backend and Stripe payments, serving 600+ active users.