FlightKP 026BoardedNov 2025 - Present
Senior Software Engineer · Bloomberg
- Breaking a Python 2 monolith into discrete Python 3 microservices for an internal IAM platform.
Final boarding call
Kush Patel
Software Engineer. Founder. Creative.
Senior Software Engineer at Bloomberg. Building Savitr on nights and weekends. Shooting weddings as Shot by Kush.
Engineer first, builder always.
I studied Computer Science at Rutgers, but most of what I care about I learned by shipping - at scale, on a deadline, with real users on the other end. I like software that touches real operations, not demos.
Today I'm a Senior Software Engineer at Bloomberg, working on identity and access infrastructure. Before that I built AI/ML systems at Amazon and distributed services on Azure at Microsoft, and earlier shipped banking infrastructure at a fintech startup. I care about ownership, speed, and taste - and about systems that are clean, scalable, and useful in the real world.
Outside engineering, I'm usually building Savitr (savitr.dev), shooting weddings and events as Shot by Kush, training, reading about markets and investing, or chasing good food, cars, and cameras. I'm drawn to the same thing everywhere I look - well-made systems and the discipline it takes to build them. I also love aviation, if you couldn't tell.
- Speaker talks
- 6+
- Users impacted
- 1M+
- Years building & scaling businesses
- 3+
Flight log
Stamps in the logbook.
Six airport codes that map the work and the life around it. Tap a card to read why it matters.
Where I've shipped.
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FlightKP 025BoardedDec 2024 - Oct 2025
Software Development Engineer · Amazon
- Built a Bedrock-powered rewrite copilot with retrieval-augmented prompting and safety guardrails - cut promotion-review cycle time 28% and manager drafting effort 2.8×.
- 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 infra cost per 1,000 requests.
- Shipped an LLM output evaluator (HELM-inspired) running 6k nightly evals wired into CI/CD release gates, cutting hallucinations 38%.
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FlightKP 024BoardedSept 2023 - Nov 2024
Software Engineer · Kinective
- Built a mobile eSign product over SMS with Twilio + Azure Functions, driving a 115% improvement in document turnaround for banks and loan cores.
- Shipped an in-house URL shortener (10-char hash) that lifted backend speed 34% across 10,000+ monthly transactions.
- Re-architected the CosmosDB schema for elasticity - 28% cost reduction and faster reporting with fewer queries.
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FlightKP 023BoardedMay 2023 - Aug 2023
Software Engineer Intern · Microsoft
- Built an ML-backed microservice that cut Azure resource deployment latency 94% at P99, improving reliability under peak load.
- Created 30 real-time Azure Monitor dashboards to sharpen service-health decisions.
- Drove code coverage with unit tests across all major functions; ran point as Agile Scrum Master.
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FlightKP 022BoardedMay 2022 - Aug 2022
SWE & PM Intern · Microsoft
- Led a team of 3 interns building a scalable notification API that reduced latency 6×.
- Architected an API that minimized upstream calls and reused existing code, cutting resource usage 52%.
- Modularized the codebase to speed up the dev cycle and accelerate feature rollouts.
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FlightKP 021BoardedMay 2021 - Sept 2021
Software Engineer Intern · Xupoli IT
- Built full-stack apps serving 2,500+ daily users with end-to-end ownership.
- Integrated 5+ patented innovations into product designs, contributing to a 21% lift in retention.
- Engineered modern, intuitive Flutter front-ends across three applications.
What I'm building.
Founder, early-stage
Savitr
An early-stage B2B SaaS company building an integrated software suite for businesses in emerging markets - inventory management, point of sale, HR workflows, and background checking, in one operating layer. Built to be clean, scalable, and useful where the software that exists today isn't.
TypeScript, Node.js, React, Cloud infra
Visit savitr.devSide experiments, tools, and the things I tinker with after hours live on GitHub. Browse repositories
Shot by Kush.
I professionally shoot South Asian weddings and events - mehndi, sangeet, receptions, portraits, and full cinematic coverage - under Shot by Kush, on Canon R5 and R6 Mark II. Weddings taught me something software never could: nobody cares how hard the work was. They only remember how the final result made them feel.
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What I work with.
Languages
- TypeScript
- JavaScript
- Python
- Java
- C# / .NET
- SQL
Backend
- Node.js / Express
- FastAPI
- APIs
- Microservices
- .NET Core
Cloud & Infra
- AWS
- Azure
- Docker
- ECS
- RDS
- CI/CD
- Observability
- Terraform
Frontend
- React
- Next.js
- HTML / CSS
AI / ML
- RAG
- Prompt engineering
- Agentic workflows
- LLM evals
- Guardrails
Creative
- Lightroom
- Photoshop
- Premiere Pro
- DaVinci Resolve
- Canon R5
- Canon R6 II
Contact
Let's build something.
For engineering, startups, or technical collaboration - reach out directly. For wedding, event, or video work, head to Shot by Kush. Curious about Savitr? I'm always happy to talk shop.
kush2065741@gmail.com