Hi, I'm Amar.

I'm an Engineer.

I build microservices that talk to AI, hotels that talk to guests, and quiet little pieces of software that compound for years. Three continents shaped me. Twenty-four years of code did the rest.

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Portrait of Amar P. Patel wearing a beanie and glasses, smiling, with a glacier and mountains in the background

0+ years writing code
0 issued U.S. patents
0+ microservices in Saathratri
0 years at Lockheed Martin
0 continents called home
0 npm packages maintained

A few things you might not expect

Born in Kenya. Raised in England. Built in Florida.

I picked up an accent collection along the way and a habit of seeing problems from at least three angles at once.

A decade on the F-35 floor.

I shipped Java for the Joint Strike Fighter's Autonomic Logistics Information System and ended up briefing Generals and Colonels on the software I helped build.

Two patents, one IEEE paper, zero plans to stop.

U.S. patents on machine prognostics (US 9,734,001) and Web services portlets (US 2006/0036954), plus an IEEE paper on CBM/PHM ground-vehicle architectures.

Three degrees, three reasons.

BS in CS (FIU Honors College, 2002) for the foundation, MBA (University of Phoenix, 2009) for the business muscle, MS in CS (Drexel, 2014) for the modern architectures.

I run a small npm corner of the JHipster world.

Two open-source blueprints — one teaches JHipster how to do AI semantic search with pgvector, the other teaches it Apache Cassandra with composite keys and SAI/ANN vector search.

Quiet operator behind a hospitality portfolio.

20% shareholder in family-run hotels and gas stations. I write Power Automate flows that download statements while everyone else sleeps.

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What I'm building

Three active threads: a microservices platform, two open-source npm blueprints, and a quiet portfolio of hospitality websites.

2018 — Present