Harshil Patel
A software engineer with a passion in full stack development and competitive coding. MS in Software Engineering from San Jose State University, currently building messaging infrastructure at Meta Platforms.
I excel in developing fast, scalable, and smooth software for enterprises.
4+ years of experience building large-scale distributed systems and frontend platforms. At Meta, I delivered $1.5M+ in combined annual OPEX savings by modernizing messaging infrastructure across Facebook, Instagram, and Threads. Previously built React component libraries and KPI dashboards at an AI startup, saving 125+ engineering hours per month.
Strong in React, TypeScript, Node.js, and distributed systems. I care about writing clean, performant code and shipping things that move metrics.
SELECTED PROJECTS
Crossify
Event and Club driven social media
GitTypography
GitHub Contribution Art
Invoice Automation
Invoice Parser | Extractor | Visualizer
EXPERIENCE
Software Engineer
Feb 2025 - Present
Meta Platforms
Building large-scale messaging infrastructure for Messenger, Instagram Direct, and Threads (3B+ daily messages). Improved message fanout reliability from 99.86% to 99.99% (4 nines) via critical reads and retry mechanisms. Blocked 24.7M invalid messages in 31 days, reducing user-facing errors by 93.7% for 2B+ Instagram users. Projected $1M+ annual infrastructure savings through message field schematization. Automated 80% of a 600+ entity migration using an AI-powered agent — saving 2+ engineer-years. Shipped Threads Live Chat backend (April 2026). Led team-wide AI developer tools initiative (8/13 engineers): E2E test agents, oncall triage automation, onboarding generators.
Software Engineer II Intern
May 2024 - August 2024
Cisco
Developed Ops Control Center from scratch (React.js, Python, Flask, Ngnix, Shell, OAuth), a centralized platform for monitoring and managing Saas deployments. Engineered a scalable backend with Python(Flask) and DocumentDB. Built agent(Python) that runs on edge nodes facilitating non blocking distributed execution for handling tasks and providing heart details. Integrating Kubernetes operations, Docker operations, migration of resources to AWS, capturing logs and metrics for monitoring and alerting.
Master of Science in Software Engineering
Aug 2023 - May 2025 (Graduated)
San Jose State University
Specialization - Enterprise Software Technologies. Coursework - Software Systems Engineering, Data Mining, Enterprise Distributed Systems, Enterprise Software Platforms, Machine Learning.
Software Engineer
Jul 2021 - Jul 2023
AIVIDTechvision Pvt Ltd
Designed and maintained a React component library with full Storybook documentation — saving 125+ engineering hours/month across all product teams. Built a custom React + HapiJS plugin to extract KPIs from billions of computer vision bot logs, delivering a 30% boost in actionable insights. Reduced storage costs by 5x and extended data retention from 1 month to 6 months by architecting a distributed rollup system. Elevated Sonarqube test coverage from 70% to 98% and mentored 3 junior frontend engineers.
Software Engineer Intern
Apr 2021 - Jun 2021
AIVIDTechvision Pvt Ltd
Developed a Typescript backend with Express.js for worker node operations, enabling live snapshots and metadata handling. Introduced Dev Insights for efficient model evaluation, reducing manual efforts by 90%. Streamlined developer environment setup and deployment processes with Bash scripts, saving 60% setup time. Engineered an automated Inspection Report system using Puppeteer and NodeJS, delivering scheduled business updates with charts, CSVs, and camera content.
Frontend Engineer Intern
Mar 2021 - Apr 2021
Srchout
Developed an E-learning platform using Angular and Material-UI integrated features such as statistical analysis of student, dashboards, Live E-board, Zoom WebSDK.
Bachelor of Engineering in Information Technology
Aug 2017 - May 2021
Gujarat Technological University
Coursework - Data structures, Object oriented programming - C++/Java, Analysis and Design of Algorithms, Python programming, Web Technology, Data mining and Business Intelligence, Big Data Analytics, Artificial Intelligence
ACHIEVEMENTS
Top 1.25% in CodeChef October Challenge
Oct 2020
CodeChef
263 out of 20,000+ participants
Top 1.19% in CodeChef September Challenge
Sep 2020
CodeChef
357 out of 30,000+ participants
Top 3.5% in Facebook Hackercup round
Oct 2020
Facebook Hackercup
1167 out of 32,000+ participants
Secured 886 Rank in CodeChef July Challenge
July 2020
CodeChef Hackercup
solved 7 problems with 1 partially right solution out of 10 problems(15 Days long Competition)
Secured 1166 Rank in CodeVita 2020 Round 1
Aug 2020
CodeVita 2020
Highest Rank in the college.
SKILLS
react
javascript
typescript
html
css
tailwind
next
angular
express
node.js
django
mysql
graphQL
postgreSQL
nginx
mongo
aws
docker
kubernetes
jenkins
kafka
linux/unix
elasticsearch
git
c
c++
c#
python
java
jira
redux
bootstrap
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