About
About Om Patel.
I'm a software engineer who ships. The backend and data infrastructure that has to stay fast and reliable as it grows.
Who I am
Two production internships and an M.S. in Computer Science in progress at Illinois Tech, 3.5 GPA, graduating May 2027. I move across services, data pipelines, and the cloud they run on, and I own features from first commit to production.
I've shipped real systems: a rule-based configuration engine and real-time GraphQL services at Codage Habitation, and a component library serving hundreds of users at Reality-Craft. On the data side, I build ML pipelines over large biomedical datasets and run distributed Spark and Hadoop jobs on cloud clusters.
My toolkit is Python, TypeScript, and SQL on Docker, CI/CD, and AWS. I care about the parts users never see: clean APIs, solid auth, and infrastructure that holds under load. Right now I'm interviewing for backend, data, and infrastructure engineering roles.
What I actually build
Four areas I work in day to day. Each one shows up in something I have shipped or researched, not just read about.
Backend & APIs
GraphQL and REST on Node and TypeScript, real-time features over Socket.IO, and data layers on Prisma, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL. Auth, roles, and the unglamorous logic that keeps a product holding together under real traffic.
Machine Learning & LLMs
End-to-end ML in Python, from gradient-boosted rankers (XGBoost, CatBoost, PyTorch) for research to applied LLM work: a fully offline RAG pipeline with local embeddings, vector search over ChromaDB, and answers grounded in your own documents.
Cloud & Distributed Systems
Docker, CI/CD, and secrets done right, deployed on Vercel, Azure, and AWS. I have stood up Hadoop and Spark clusters on Chameleon Cloud and benchmarked distributed jobs at scale.
Security & Reliability
Role-based access, JWT with secure cookies, encrypted real-time messaging, and validation that actually validates. The invisible work that keeps a system trustworthy when it matters most.
Education
Illinois Institute of Technology
GPA 3.5 / 4.0 · Expected May 2027M.S. Computer Science · Chicago, IL
Silver Oak University
GPA 3.97 / 4.0 · Graduated 2025B.Tech Computer Engineering · Ahmedabad, India