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Kush Patel

Engineer. Creator. Founder.

Full time on Savitr, software for businesses in emerging markets. Before this, engineering at Bloomberg, Amazon and Microsoft. Weekends I shoot weddings as Shot by Kush and post reels about tech, planes and cameras.

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Year	Flight	Destination	Role	Status
2026	KP 027	Savitr	Founder	Boarding
2025	KP 026	Bloomberg	Sr SWE	Departed
2024	KP 025	Amazon	SDE I	Departed
2023	KP 024	Kinective	SWE	Departed
2023	KP 023	Microsoft	SWE Intern	Departed
2022	KP 022	Microsoft	SWE Intern	Departed
2021	KP 021	Xupoli IT	SWE Intern	Departed

I studied Computer Science at Rutgers and learned the rest by shipping: at Microsoft, Kinective, Amazon and Bloomberg. In October 2026 I left to work on Savitr full time.

Bloomberg was the last stop: splitting a Python 2 identity monolith into Python 3 services for 20,000 internal users. Before that I built an LLM copilot for promotion reviews at Amazon, worked on Azure compute at Microsoft, and shipped banking infrastructure at Kinective in Rahway.

Weekends I shoot South Asian weddings as Shot by Kush, and I post reels about tech, planes and cameras. Otherwise it's training, markets, good food and cars. I love aviation, if you couldn't tell.

Talks given: 6+
Users of software I shipped: 1M+
Years running Savitr and Shot by Kush: 3+

Founder, full time since October 2026

Savitr

Software for businesses in emerging markets: inventory, point of sale, HR and background checks in one system, built for places where the usual tools don't fit. It started with time on the ground in Ndola, Zambia, watching how real businesses run.

TypeScript, Node.js, React, AWS

Visit savitr.dev

Everything else I've hacked on is on GitHub. See the repos

Where I've shipped.

FlightKP 026DatesNov 2025 - Oct 2026

Senior Software Engineer, Contract

BloombergNew York, NYIdentity & Access Management
- Cut deployment lead time from 3 weeks to under 2 days by decomposing a legacy Python 2 monolith into 6 deployable Python 3 microservices, shrinking the blast radius of every release.
- Brought entitlement propagation for 20,000+ internal users from about 12 minutes to under 30 seconds by re-architecting the LDAP and Active Directory sync layer around event-driven reconciliation and idempotent retries.
- Removed Redis as a single point of failure and drove lock-contention incidents to zero across 6 services with a database-backed distributed lock: lease renewal, fencing tokens, automatic stale-lock reclamation.
Base NYC
FlightKP 025DatesDec 2024 - Sep 2025

Software Development Engineer

AmazonSeattle, WAGlobal Talent Management & Compensation
- Built a Bedrock-powered rewrite copilot with retrieval-augmented prompting and safety guardrails, cutting promotion-review cycle time 28% and manager drafting effort 2.8x.
- Re-architected from Bedrock Flows to a Lambda-first orchestration layer with concurrency controls, fallbacks and circuit breakers: 32% better p95 latency and 18% lower infrastructure cost per 1,000 requests.
- Shipped a HELM-inspired LLM output evaluator running 6k nightly evals inside the CI/CD release gates, cutting hallucinations 38% and lifting groundedness by 17 points.
- Designed a Prompt Definition Library (versioned prompts and configs as code, with gating and validation) that cut integration time for new AI use cases 68% across 7 projects.
Base SEA
FlightKP 024DatesSep 2023 - Nov 2024

Software Engineer

KinectiveRahway, NJBanking infrastructure
- Built a mobile eSign product delivered over SMS with Twilio and Azure Functions, cutting document turnaround for banks and loan cores 53%.
- Re-architected the Cosmos DB schema for elasticity: 28% lower cost and faster reporting with fewer queries.
- Built end-to-end usage monitoring and billing on Azure Logic Apps, removing about 20 hours of manual reconciliation and unlocking usage-based pricing.
Base EWR
FlightKP 023DatesMay 2023 - Aug 2023

Software Engineer Intern

MicrosoftRedmond, WAAzure Core Compute
- Built an ML-driven pre-provisioning microservice for Azure Compute that learned customer usage patterns and staged resources ahead of demand, cutting deployment latency 94% at P99.
- Created 30 real-time Azure Monitor dashboards for service-health decisions, and ran point as the team's Scrum Master.
Base SEA
FlightKP 022DatesMay 2022 - Aug 2022

Software Engineer & PM Intern

MicrosoftRedmond, WAAzure Commerce & Ecosystems
- Led a team of 3 interns building a scalable notification API that reduced latency 6x.
- Architected an API that minimised upstream calls and reused existing code, cutting resource usage 52%.
Base SEA
FlightKP 021DatesMay 2021 - Sep 2021

Software Engineer Intern

Xupoli ITNorth Brunswick, NJ
- Built full-stack apps serving 2,500+ daily users with end-to-end ownership, and Flutter front-ends across three applications.
- Integrated 5+ patented innovations into product designs, contributing to a 21% lift in retention.
Base EWR

Stamps in the logbook.

Nine airports that explain most of it. Flip a card for the story.

Tech, aviation, photography.

Short videos about tech, aviation and photography, posted as @kush.p1203. Every tile opens on Instagram.

Shot by Kush.

South Asian weddings and events: mehndi, sangeet, baraat, receptions, portraits and full cinematic coverage. Recent work below, straight from Instagram. Tap a frame to open the post.

See the full portfolio @shot.by.kush