Aan Patel
Software Engineer at Citrix
Software Engineer at Citrix, Community Organizer for Google Developers Group Chapel Hill
I enjoy building software that makes a positive impact on people's lives.

Having worked on professional software development teams as well as several small-scale technical and entrepreneurial projects (https://aanpatel.tech/projects), I have a proven track record of being able to adapt, lead, communicate, and perform in team environments.

I strive to have an entrepreneurial mindset while developing software: empathize with users, clearly define problems, comprehend user feedback, and recognize opportunities for wealth creation - so as to yield maximum impact for effort.

As an organizer for the Google Developer Group in the city of Chapel Hill (GDG Chapel Hill), an open-to-all chapter backed by Google Developers (developers.google.com), I regularly host technical workshops on various topics spanning mobile, web, cloud, and AI domains.

More about me: https://aanpatel.tech
Citrix
https://www.linkedin.com/company/citrix
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
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Software Engineer
Citrix
https://www.linkedin.com/company/citrix
• Delivered an end-to-end “Unified Recent Files” feature with expected 25,000+ monthly active users for the Citrix Workspace application to enable users to access all of their recent files from any number of file storage providers from one screen.

• Designed, implemented, and deployed the following feature components in the process:
1. Two Node.JS integrations (back-end plugins) for the proprietary “Citrix Workspace Integration Platform” to retrieve a list of recent files along with file activity information from (1) OneDrive or SharePoint online, and (2) Google Drive. Configured and leveraged industry-standard JavaScript technologies for both integrations, including Babel, Webpack, and ESLint. Implemented unit tests using Jest with 100% coverage.

2. A microservice API for Citrix Workspace in C#, .NET Core to aggregate the responses from the “recent files” integrations. Implemented unit tests with XUnit. Configured the CI/CD pipeline using Jenkins. Leveraged modern technologies including Docker, Kubernetes (Helm), and Terraform, for deployment to Microsoft Azure.

3. A Citrix Workspace user interface page for “Unified Recent Files” using React with TypeScript and Jest with Enzyme for testing.
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
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Software Development Intern
iD Tech Camps
https://www.linkedin.com/company/id-tech-camps
Delivered top-notch STEM education by teaching Minecraft Modding using Java, Python for Data Science, and C++ for batches of 4-5 students ages 7-19 every workday for 2-3 sessions of 2.5 hours each.

Guided clients with installation and troubleshooting every weekend before the start of next week’s camps (usual workload - 300+ clients handled by 20-25 employees), to improve and smoothen their “first day of camp” experience.
United States
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Virtual Tech Camp Instructor
Global BizConnect
https://www.linkedin.com/company/global-bizconnect
Architected, designed, and implemented the following web applications from front to back using Bootstrap, jQuery, PHP, and MySQL, to grow the startup's projects portfolio by 22%:
1. An e-learning website – orionpublication.com, with the following features:
 ‎‎‎• Google OAuth 2.0 Login and Signup
 • A complete content management dashboard for instructors allowing them to:
  (i) Create courses
  (ii) Add video lectures
  (iii) PDF/other file resources
  (iv) Create quizzes for courses
  (v) Manage Q&A with students on each course
 • A complete dashboard for students allowing them to:
  (i) Search for, and enroll into courses
  (ii) Manage their courses, certifications and enrollments.
  (iv) Access course video lectures.
  (v) Track course progress
  (vi) Take secure quizzes for courses (Quiz module features random option shuffling).
  (vii) Access auto-generated verifiable PDF certificates.

2. A freelance search-and-hire website, BizLancer, with the following features:
 • A complete workflow implementation for employers allowing them to:
  (i) Create job postings
  (ii) Shortlist applicants
  (iii) Hire applicants
  (iv) Chat in real-time (uses AJAX) with applicants
 • A complete dashboard for applicants allowing them to:
  (i) Search for, and apply to job postings
  (ii) Manage their profile, which includes education, experience, skills, certifications, known languages, a profile photo and much more.

Co-developed the following modules with senior developer:
 1. A back-end payment gateway for a footwear e-commerce website for a client
 2. Memo and Reminder module for BizAssist – a business administration solution currently used 
          in-house
Vadodara, Gujarat, India
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Full-Stack Web Developer Intern
Bachelor of Science - BS
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science with a minor in Entrepreneurship
Computer Science
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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
https://www.linkedin.com/school/university-of-north-carolina-at-chapel-hill/
Transferred to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
 Computer Science and Engineering
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Vellore Institute of Technology
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High School Diploma
Mathematics and Computer Science
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Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan's
https://www.linkedin.com/school/bhavansbaroda/
Awards won:
1. Best Hack (Entertainment Track)
2. Infosys Best Junior Hacker
HackNC 2021
Winner at HackNC 2021
Due to exceptional academic performance, I was enlisted in the Dean's List for Fall 2019.

After Fall 2019 no Dean's list has been published by UNC as yet due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Dean's List - Fall 2019
Top 10 in academics in the Computer Science and Engineering major at VIT, Vellore
Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore
Merit Scholarship
My team secured a top-10 place in the SELECT Make-a-thon, a 36-hour, national level hackathon.
We made a Raspberry Pi project that reduces internet and storage overheads in smart surveillance systems by processing video based on the fog computing paradigm. It also featured face recognition and intruder SMS alert.
The School of Electrical Engineering, VIT, Vellore
Winner at SELECT Make-a-thon 2019
Algorithms and Analysis
COMP550
Business Venturing - Scientific Track
ECON327
Computer Organization
COMP411
Data Science in the Business World
COMP488
Digital and Multimedia Composition
ENGL149
Fundamentals of Computer Programming
COMP401
Introduction to Economics
ECON101
Introduction to Entrepreneurship
ECON125
Introduction to Machine Learning
COMP562
Introduction to Probability
STOR435
Linear Algebra for Applications
MATH547
Modern Web Programming
COMP426
Modern Web Programming
COMP426
Artificial Intelligence
CSE3013
Data Structures and Algorithms
CSE2003
Database Management Systems
CSE2004
Discrete Mathematics
MAT4014
Microprocessors and Interfacing
CSE2006
Network and Communication
CSE1004
Operating Systems
CSE2005
Statistics
MAT2001
Open-source MERN stack food delivery web app to aid struggling small restaurants during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Currently being used by:
samosabucket.herokuapp.com (demo deployed by me, always up)
cloudeats.app (might be down if the owner is performing maintenance)
Samosabucket
https://github.com/aannirajpatel/samosabucket
Demo: https://youtu.be/d2ylPwF7zrc

About: Fall 2020 COMP562 (Intro to Machine Learning) Project at UNC-Chapel Hill. We used a pre-trained Multi-Task Cascaded Convolutional Neural Network (facenet-pytorch MTCNN) and trained a PCA-SVM pipeline to detect faces in images and then classify them to see whether people in those images are wearing masks.

Dataset: We used the Face Mask Detection dataset on Kaggle - https://www.kaggle.com/andrewmvd/face-mask-detection
Real-Time Face Mask Detection with MTCNN, PCA and SVM
https://github.com/aannirajpatel/comp562-face-mask-detect
Our product, mediScan, allows the user to take a picture of any handwritten document through an android app. The user will then highlight areas of handwritten text information to then convert them into easily-readable spreadsheets (JSON or CSV files) through Google Cloud Vision.
MediScan
https://devpost.com/software/mediscan
Using Tableau and the Chapel Hill crime dataset on data.world, we created insightful visualizations and made predictions in order to better understand criminal patterns and how they are related to location, year, time, gender, age, type of offense, and many other features. I came up with the idea and made the entire Tableau dashboard. This was a project for the 2019 Carolina Data Challenge.
Chapel Hill Crime Insights
https://wencheng6.wixsite.com/carolinadatadragons
A freelance search-and-hire website made in PHP. It allows business owners to put job postings, and job searchers to search for those and get hired. Implements the entire hiring pipeline (apply, shortlist, reject, accept) and a chat module for employers and applicants to communicate.
BizLancer - Freelance website
http://github.com/aannirajpatel/bizlancer
An e-learning website made in PHP. Features a full video, file, document, and quiz creation/handling interface for laying out courses, and PayTM payment gateway integration.
Orion E-Learning
http://github.com/aannirajpatel/orion
Arduino Calendar, Clock and Textual Reminder System with LCD Display, IR Remote Control, and DS1302 Real-Time Clock (RTC)
CalRem
http://github.com/aannirajpatel/calrem
TheFarmersHub is an open-source PHP website that serves as a support forum for Indian farmers and is equipped with Google Translate so that farmers from all over India could communicate efficiently over the forum. The forum questions and answers are analyzed by a sentiment-analysis engine written in Python to provide overall sentiment information about farmers of India.
TheFarmersHub
http://github.com/aannirajpatel/thefarmershub
An Android app for the Skillmatch website.
Skillmatch for Android
http://github.com/aannirajpatel/skillmatchmobile
SkillMatch is a website that helps VITians collaborate, connect and communicate to make amazing teams, projects and start-ups.
Skillmatch
https://github.com/aannirajpatel/skillmatch
I used an RF module with Arduino to make a radio-controlled, battery-operated car. The remote had 4 buttons: forward, reverse, left and right. I used this project to learn about Arduino while I was a junior at high school.
Arduino Radio Controlled Car
Science and Technology
Google Developers Group Chapel Hill
https://www.linkedin.com/company/gdg-chapel-hill
• Conducting workshops on Android, Google Cloud, JavaScript, Kotlin, and more.
• Building apps with the community (see www.aanpatel.tech/community).
• Attended the GDG North America Leads Virtual Summit in September 2020.
• Hosted and lectured at the virtual event - Firebase Study Jam by GDG Chapel Hill in June 2020.
• Attended the GDG North America Leads Academy at Google’s San Diego campus in February 2020.
• Managing the chapter’s social media accounts beginning January 2020.
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Chapter Co-founder & Organizer
Science and Technology
ISA - VIT
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Project Team Member
Science and Technology
ISA - VIT
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Core Member
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
registrar.unc.edu
CeDiD:22C3-MOUH-AJLA
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
https://registrar.unc.edu/credential-validation/
LinkedIn
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React: Using TypeScript
https://www.linkedin.com/learning/react-using-typescript
LinkedIn
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AWS Essential Training for Developers
https://www.linkedin.com/learning/aws-essential-training-for-developers
LinkedIn
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Docker for Developers
https://www.linkedin.com/learning/docker-for-developers-2
LinkedIn
www.linkedin.com
Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Essential Training for Developers
https://www.linkedin.com/learning/google-cloud-platform-gcp-essential-training-for-developers
LinkedIn
www.linkedin.com
Kubernetes Essential Training: Application Development
https://www.linkedin.com/learning/kubernetes-essential-training-application-development
LinkedIn
www.linkedin.com
Kubernetes: Package Management with Helm
https://www.linkedin.com/learning/kubernetes-package-management-with-helm
LinkedIn
www.linkedin.com
Learning HashiCorp Vault
https://www.linkedin.com/learning/learning-hashicorp-vault
LinkedIn
www.linkedin.com
Learning Jenkins
https://www.linkedin.com/learning/learning-jenkins
LinkedIn
www.linkedin.com
Learning Terraform
https://www.linkedin.com/learning/learning-terraform-2
LinkedIn
www.linkedin.com
Programming Foundations: Design Patterns
https://www.linkedin.com/learning/programming-foundations-design-patterns-2
LinkedIn
www.linkedin.com
Programming Foundations: Object-Oriented Design
https://www.linkedin.com/learning/programming-foundations-object-oriented-design-3
LinkedIn
www.linkedin.com
Programming Foundations: Test-Driven Development
https://www.linkedin.com/learning/programming-foundations-test-driven-development-3
LinkedIn
www.linkedin.com
Content Marketing Foundations
https://www.linkedin.com/learning/content-marketing-foundations-3
LinkedIn
www.linkedin.com
De-Escalating Intense Situations
https://www.linkedin.com/learning/de-escalating-intense-situations
LinkedIn
www.linkedin.com
Email Marketing: Drip Campaigns
https://www.linkedin.com/learning/email-marketing-drip-campaigns
LinkedIn
www.linkedin.com
Excel Data Visualization: Mastering 20+ Charts and Graphs
https://www.linkedin.com/learning/excel-data-visualization-mastering-20-plus-charts-and-graphs
LinkedIn
www.linkedin.com
How to Create a Perfect Elevator Pitch
https://www.linkedin.com/learning/how-to-create-a-perfect-elevator-pitch
LinkedIn
www.linkedin.com
Income Statement (P&L) and Cash Flow Explained
https://www.linkedin.com/learning/income-statement-p-l-and-cash-flow-explained
LinkedIn
www.linkedin.com
Learning Data Analytics
https://www.linkedin.com/learning/learning-data-analytics-2
LinkedIn
www.linkedin.com
Negotiation Foundations
https://www.linkedin.com/learning/negotiation-foundations
LinkedIn
www.linkedin.com
Learning Personal Branding
https://www.linkedin.com/learning/learning-personal-branding-2
LinkedIn
www.linkedin.com
Professional Networking
https://www.linkedin.com/learning/professional-networking
Coursera
www.coursera.org
MYE7BZTUCKZH
Neural Networks and Deep Learning
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Coursera
www.coursera.org
YRLPFC2UE9TP
Programming Foundations with JavaScript, HTML and CSS
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Udemy
ude.my
UC-L5VOHVR6
Javascript Essentials
https://ude.my/UC-L5VOHVR6
Udemy
ude.my
UC-EW1GHIIT
Introduction to Cloud Computing
https://ude.my/UC-EW1GHIIT
American Red Cross
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006K58Q
Adult and Pediatric First Aid/CPR/AED
http://redcross.org/digitalcertificate
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        I have known Aan as an intelligent colleague at UNC. Being a friend he knew about my  aspirations of starting a restaurant business. As part of the Modern Web Programming course at UNC, we were required to make a comprehensive and fully functional web application. Aan proposed that he was confident about developing an open source food delivery web application. The idea, he thought, would serve multiple purposes. Not only would it take care of the Modern Web Programming class project requirement; it would help me - a budding entrepreneur, launch a restaurant business online. Finally, since he has designated his entire code as an open source resource, anyone who may already be in a situation similar to mine or wanting to get into the restaurant business can use and benefit from such professional grade code. It is a godsend for me and possibly hundreds, if not thousands of restaurant businesses facing an existential crisis due to the ongoing COVID induced pandemic.

I wish to put it on record here that Aan is a creative thinker who comes up with intuitive real world solutions in double quick time. He is adept at learning any technology needed to supplement a project’s completion. I have witnessed his programming skills firsthand as he built a robust open source software single handedly. Aan’s is already creating professional grade code because the app is simple and easy to use, has a beautiful UI which is easy on the eye, and most importantly the project documentation is comprehensive, detailed and easy to follow.

I was able to deploy it with utmost ease and am already using it for my food delivery service website. His open-source project is named Samosabucket as a tribute to my kitchen and business by the same name (samosabucket.com), which happens to be the first kitchen to use Aan’s Web Programming project code. Vraj Kotwala
      
          



            
              
        
              
  

    
        Aan is hard working and takes his job seriously. We worked together on a science-exhibition project that he led.
He has great leadership, networking and planning skills.
Has good conceptual knowledge which he can implement effectively.
He is full of innovative ideas as a computer science undergrad.
Liked by Aan Patel
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Corona, CA
Aan Patel
Tutor at Kumon North America, Inc.
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Minneapolis, MN
Aan Patel
self employed
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India
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Machine Learning Community (Moderated)
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The IBM AI, ML, IoT Group
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ISA – International Society of Automation
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Analytics and Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Marketing and Retail
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Java Learning Group - LinkedIn Learning
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1789 Powered by Innovate Carolina
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