Neel Patel-Shah

I'm uprooting my life and moving to LA for a year , and I'm on the lookout for an opportunity that will let me maximize this life change and keep myself growing while I work on something awesome.

Just a personal project to do something fun with concerts and social behavior, two things I'm pretty into. The goal is to get people to care about music and shows for what they are instead of Instagram fodder, through social sharing and discovery. It'd also be pretty cool to build something that boosts small capacity venues and brings out some hidden gems.

Pivoted through a range of products, building core features on my own and with my team, whatever the situation needed. Built social, then graph based creator tools, then a GenAI powered image editor, and finally an AI powered social media marketing anayltics tool.

As the 5th hire and senior-most member, I helped my team grow, focusing on build and stack decisions, problem solving, and company ops. It was my first time in that position and I hope it's not the last.

A change of pace. Pursued my interest in cocktail creation and experienced a different industry. Made syrups, juices, garnish, and drinks while supporting bartenders and serving guests. I learned to spend time on my feet, think ahead and think fast, and show up with a smile no matter what. Taking time to work here is one of the better decisions I've made.

Built a mobile app 0-1 for chat and video calling to give mentors and teens a safe place to connect and help teens work through their problems with they can relate to, who is trained to help them without the therapy waitlists.

Being the 3rd hire, I had my first taste doing recruiting to interviewing to onboarding of other employees, and was actively involved in design, marketing, and ops strategy. It was the first time I really saw myself work in multiple areas as needed and I loved it.

I built a 3D engine inside a mobile app to creative a digital chicken coop game that was social and meant to increase customer engagement. It was a fun project but a wild entry into startups that I am forver grateful for.

I worked on lots of other more traditional full-stack features after this, really launching my career doing product engineering. This stuff ranged from Time & Attendance to building v0 of a first party POS for restaurants.