Aarya Patel
Sunnyvale, CA|aarya.niraj007@gmail.com|aaryapatel.site|github.com/aaryapatel09|linkedin.com/in/aaryapatel1
Honors & Awards
- USACO Platinum — Top <1% of participants
- USAPHO Qualifier — Top ~400 nationally out of 6,000+ competitors
- 1st Place, FBLA States — Computer Problem Solving; #1 CA (prev. #1 Bay Sections)
- Scholastic Art & Writing Awards — 2× Silver Key in Poetry (330,000+ submissions)
Education
Homestead High School
Sunnyvale, CA
Relevant Coursework: Advanced Mathematics, Computer Science, Physics, Engineering Design
Aug. 2023 – Jun. 2026
Experience
Jun. – Sept. 2026
Software Engineer Intern
San Francisco, CA
- Consumer AI email app (iOS & web) founded by Pinterest’s former CPO & exec team; $9.5M seed led by Felicis with A*, Abstract, and Elad Gil; 4M+ emails condensed into AI daily summaries during beta.
- Designed and shipped email search end-to-end across iOS, web, and backend.
- Core engineer on the AI assistant — built the framework it uses to safely take actions on users’ inboxes.
- Shipped multi-account Gmail support across 10+ areas of the product.
- Built and deployed the production ML pipeline behind smart email filtering.
Oct. 2024 – May 2026
State President (prev. State Vice President)
California
- State president Apr. 2025–May 2026, previously state vice president. Led the state team within FAI’s network of 6,000+ members and 126+ chapters across 30+ states and four countries.
- Helped raise $50,000+ with partners including Chipotle and Intertwined; ran a stock-market competition with scholarship prizes and brought in speakers including a Wells Fargo VP.
Code4Cause
May 2025 – May 2026
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer
- Co-founded student-led nonprofit; grew program to serve 20+ middle schoolers across 4 weeks of structured ML curriculum.
- Designed GreenSight: guided students from 0 coding experience through a full ML pipeline — Python fundamentals to predictive modeling to civic advocacy; students built a model identifying 15+ Bay Area high-CO₂ locations submitted to Sunnyvale city government; in talks with Mercury News for a feature.
Natalie Brunell (500K+ subscriber Fintech YouTuber)
May 2025 – Present
Data Analytics Intern | Independent Contractor
- Built analytics platform integrating YouTube & Twitter (X) APIs, monitoring 10+ channel metrics and competitor benchmarks in real time.
- Created 5+ interactive Streamlit/Plotly dashboards; integrated Google Gemini AI for natural language querying, reducing manual reporting by ~60%.
Automotive Restoration & Resale
Jun. – Aug. 2025
Founder — Self-Employed
- Bought, restored, and resold 10+ damaged vehicles and motorcycles; engine rebuilds, electrical troubleshooting, bodywork, and welding. Generated $10K revenue in 3 months.
Projects
alphasig | Python, Claude API, DuckDB, Open Source
Quant pipeline extracting timestamped trading signals from SEC filings (10-K, 10-Q, 8-K) via LLMs — grounded in Cohen, Malloy & Nguyen (2020); 4 engines: supply chain graph, risk factor diff, M&A detector, tone tracker; outputs to Parquet/DuckDB with FastAPI + webhook support.
jaxphys | Python, JAX, Open Source
Differentiable physics library (classical mechanics, FDTD EM, quantum, statistical mechanics) — fully differentiable end-to-end; enables inverse problem solving via autodiff.
Technical Skills
- Languages:
- Python, Swift, Rust, TypeScript, JavaScript, Java, C++, MATLAB
- ML:
- LLM agents & tool use, Semantic/vector search, Embeddings, BM25 ranking, CNNs, LSTMs, Computer vision
- Infrastructure:
- GCP (Cloud Run, Cloud Monitoring), AWS, Docker, Postgres, Redis, FastAPI, Prometheus, Grafana
- Leadership:
- Founded & scaled 2 orgs, Led 6,000+ member national org, Curriculum design, Technical mentorship, Public speaking
