Manav Patel

A Retrospective

Manav Patel

Works 2021–2026 · San Francisco, California

The gallery is open 24/7 · Admission free

About the Artist

I'm an engineer at heart who is always in pursuit of the most efficient solution to complex problems. With 3+ years across four high-growth startups, I've led full-stack and AI initiatives on teams scaling from 3 to 250+ people — from crafting intelligent pipelines to shipping production-ready applications.

Today I build on two fronts: as a software engineer in Amazon Security, and as the founder of DMO.

Founder · SDE @ Amazon · Ex @ Symphony (YC)

Room I — Professional Work

Exhibit № 01

Founder, Stealth Startup

June 2025 — Present · San Francisco Bay Area

Exhibit № 02

Software Engineer, Amazon

October 2025 — Present

Exhibit № 03

Software Engineer, Symphony (YC F24)

2025 · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Developed and deployed end-to-end AI-driven audio processing pipelines (MERN + Python) for top-tier U.S. insurance clients, powering call-center analytics and liability claim automation
  • Architected asynchronous, event-driven systems using advanced hashing, cutting processing latency by 10.1x
  • Built a predictive analytics module to surface high-value stakeholders, driving a 7x increase in B2B onboarding conversion
  • Championed CI/CD automation, code review, and observability practices across the engineering team

Curator's note — The artist's audio-AI period. This website's previous design was a call transcript — the curator has since rotated the collection.

Exhibit № 04

Software Engineer, Interstellar Scientific Pvt Ltd

2023 · Pune, India

  • Led full-cycle development of multiple AI-integrated web applications, from requirements through production deployment
  • Built scalable MERN full-stack systems embedding recommendation engines, audio classifiers, and behavior analytics
  • Designed cost-efficient, AI-ready AWS infrastructure (Lambda, S3, EC2), cutting compute utilization by 52%

Room II — Selected Works

Exhibit № 05

Radiology NLP Tokenization

Healthcare document processing backend · Materials: Python 3.11, FastAPI, MinIO, DynamoDB, Docker

A FastAPI backend that lets users upload text and PDF radiology reports, automatically processes them via OpenAI's API for analysis, and stores results in DynamoDB Local with MinIO-backed file storage and webhook-triggered processing.

On view: Backend · On view: Frontend

Exhibit № 06

CareNest

Stanford TreeHacks 2025 · Materials: Flutter, React, AI/ML

An AI-powered elder-care platform tackling loneliness among aging populations, delivering real-time health analytics and predictions through an intelligent care support assistant.

On view: Repo

Curator's note — Completed in 36 hours at Stanford TreeHacks. The medium is adrenaline.

Exhibit № 08

Audio Censor Pipeline

Privacy-aware audio processing · Materials: React, Node/Express, Flask, FFmpeg, OpenAI Whisper, Picovoice Falcon

An end-to-end pipeline that ingests audio, auto-detects and censors sensitive personal information (names, SSNs), and layers on speaker identification and transcript generation.

On view: Repo

Curator's note — A study in discretion — the machine listens carefully, then forgets what it should not repeat.

Also in the collection

Interactive Installation

Exhibit № 15

Man vs. Machine

Materials: minimax, alpha-beta pruning, TypeScript

A playable chess engine, built from scratch on minimax search with alpha-beta pruning and running entirely in the visitor's browser. The work descends from the artist's first published research — an advance chess engine based on the min-max algorithm. You play white; the machine answers.

Visitors are encouraged to touch. → Enter the installation

Provenance

Illinois Institute of Technology

Master's, Computer Science — Specialization in AI and Data Analytics · Aug 2023 — May 2025

Savitribai Phule Pune University

Bachelor of Engineering, Computer — minor in Data Science

5 publications (IEEE / IJIRSET) · 1 patent — Safety H-Shield (India, 2022) · 3× Google Cloud / Python certified.

Reading Room

Essays and build notes by the artist. → Reading room

Inquiries

For acquisitions, commissions, or conversation: manavp347@gmail.com · LinkedIn ↗ · GitHub ↗

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