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Greetings, I'm Tarang Patel, A third-year student at York university. I stumbled onto my passion for web development :> I like to spend my time coding and taking on technical challenges that requires me to use my problem solving and creative thinking skills. In my spare time I like to read fiction books and watch anime. I migrated to Canada at the age of nine from India, where I had been raised. I think technology has the power to bring people together and connect the world to combat two mutual enemies: poverty and climate change.
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Lead Developer
Open-Doors Capstone Project | Toronto, ON
Apr 2025 – Jun 2025
- Recognized with the Best Sustainability Award for building a scalable and impactful solution endorsed by 25+ nonprofit partners (Second Harvest, Treek4Teens, Fred Victor, Feed Ontario, etc.) working to address homelessness and food insecurity. Built a full-stack platform that matched surplus food from farms with shelters and food banks; launched a self-serve dashboard usable by non-technical volunteers and onboarded 100+ users during demo day, using React, Express.js, Supabase, and third-party APIs.
- Engineered a system-wide matching algorithm with <5s response time, integrating Twilio SMS notifications and Google Maps API for validating form input addresses and calculating distances between farms and food banks. Implemented comprehensive backend and database test routes to verify algorithm correctness and ensure platform reliability.
Software Engineer Intern
CTRL-HACK-DEL | Toronto, ON
Dec 2023 – Nov 2024
- Developed a QR code check-in system using Next.js, React, and SQL for 500+ Hackathon attendees. Following deployment and a Discord announcement, observed an 85% reduction in registration time compared to the initial 2 hours of manual check-ins.
- Designed and optimized a high-performance Discord bot using Node.js and WebSockets, enabling instant team matching and automated announcements for 100+ teams. Streamlined 200+ daily interactions with efficient API calls and caching, reducing server load and saving approximately 4 staff hours weekly.
- Deployed application on Amazon EC2 with CloudWatch monitoring, handling 500+ concurrent users with zero downtime during the 48-hour event.
Software Engineering Fellow
HeadStarter AI | Toronto, ON
Jun 2024 – Aug 2024
- Created an AI-powered GitHub PR Review Bot using GitHub Apps and Groq's LLM models (Llama, Gemini) that automatically reviews code and suggests improvements, speeding up code reviews by 35%.
- Improved code quality by offering smart, real-time suggestions, making it easier for developers to catch mistakes and write better code.
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