Chirag Patel

About Chirag Patel

SUMMARYOver 25 years of experience engineering, launching, and growing digital products including senior health wearables, patient education tablet network, Obama 2012’s pioneering digital platforms, and enterprise telecom solutions. Built non-trivial architectures as engineering director, product owner, and full stack web/embedded engineer leading teams oriented around accountability, trust, and encouragement. Empowered stakeholders while synthesizing needs into high velocity sprints and roadmaps. Relentless about clear communication, organization, and (lean) product/market validation via research and analytics. Intrinsically driven by social mission, specifically health & patient impact.RECENT EXPERIENCEI co-founded Halo Monitoring in 2007 and led the launch of our mission critical web/data collection server for senior panic buttons and fall detection, resulting in an eventual acquisition to Mobile Help in 2012. It was a lasting inspiration to design experiences for the health of seniors while alleviating loneliness. After Halo, I worked in an intensive, but amazing 8-month full time position with the Obama 2012 campaign, working as a full time software engineer coding Ruby on Rails apps including Call Tool and Dashboard (organizing tool), and also confirmation of staffer/volunteer productivity with technology via complex SQL queries. It was an incredibly gratifying helping build technology that transformed politics.In 2013, I joined ContextMedia to help lead the formation of the product/engineering department and launched our very first in-house product, the exam room patient education Android tablet. With dedication and intense focus, we launched the tablet on schedule and exceeded both revenue and distribution goals. I also led the next generation Linux media player and EMR-integrated patient messaging products. As a result, we impacted countless patients to take control of their health.

Experience

1. Fractional CTO & Tech Product Consultant

   Productmg

   Sep 2022 — Present

   Most of the below engagements included several key areas: architectural design, tech/product roadmaps, tech debt planning, light coding, budget/hiring based on fundraising rounds, RACI team roles, user journey/story maps, competitive analysis. Developed Miro workshop process for stakeholder engagement- Exocubic: Technical vetting of AI models (eg. PHI, Claude), AI platforms (Gemini, Azure) for proposal grader. Hands on AI training (SFT, RAG, Unsupervised) on Python/Jupyter envs- Bodee: Implementation of React/Firestore feature for AI question/answer first drafts for healthcare patient communities- Route: Microservice architectural plan, QA strategy using QA Wolf, Data pipeline using Segment, Amplitude, Snowflake- Moxie: Database schema from scratch (including Dynamo access patterns), product features including Figma, built 20 page investor deck

Education

• The University of Alabama in Huntsville

  BSEE, Computer Engineering

  1993 — 1998

• Rutgers University

  MSEE, Computer Engineering

  2002 — 2004

Skills

• Software Development
• Python
• Start-Ups
• Ruby on Rails
• Software Engineering
• Ruby
• Javascript
• Postgresql
• Android Development
• Firebug
• Textmate
• Lean Thinking
• Agile Methodologies
• Android
• Css
• C++
• Entrepreneurship
• Java
• Rest
• Git
• Web Applications
• Strategy
• People Skills
• User Experience
• Leadership
• Xml
• Mysql
• Mobile Applications
• Management
• Healthcare
• Mobile Devices
• Apache
• Product Management
• Php
• Web Development
• Linux
• Representational State Transfer (Rest)