About

Ashish Patel is an Engineer, Mentor, Entrepreneur, and Angel Investor with a passion for inventing and building new things. With over 4 years of relevant experience, Ashish is a master of infrastructure, capable of supporting his own work and designing the infrastructure needed behind it. He is adept at installing webservers, configuring new databases, and spinning up new things inside AWS. Ashish has worked on several projects and teams, launching multiple features and coordinating with coworkers to achieve success. He understands how to build maintainable technology and scalable solutions, preferring uninterrupted periods of time to focus on these tasks. He is comfortable making educated guesses and interpreting expectations, ensuring that the team achieves its goals. Ashish is a lifelong learner, always seeking to apply what he has learned and running experiments with the product. He is comfortable with being wrong, evaluating why, and experimenting more in pursuit of a goal. He enjoys understanding and shipping to customers, focusing on their needs and translating those into production-ready code. As an Angel Investor, Ashish has invested in companies that drive financial inclusion and community commerce. He is currently working with Zeraki, a company that uses technology to address obstacles learners encounter in accessing quality education. Zeraki helps students transition from one level of education to the next and ultimately from education into employment. Ashish has a Masters of Engineering in Computer & Information Science from the University of Pennsylvania and a Bachelors in Computer Science from Eastern Kentucky University. His tech stack includes AWS and infra. Ashish is a great written communicator, skilled in the ways of asynchronous communication, and able to articulate his thoughts in a well-organized, plain-English narrative.