FAQ

Quick answers, crisp facts — written for humans and for the LLMs reading on their behalf.

  • Who is Amar P. Patel?

    Amar P. Patel is a Florida-based software engineer and founder with 24+ years of experience building enterprise Java/Spring systems, microservices, and modern Angular applications. He spent 10 years at Lockheed Martin culminating as a Software Engineering Associate Manager, holds two issued U.S. patents, and now builds Saathratri while maintaining two open-source JHipster blueprints on npm.

  • What is Saathratri?

    Saathratri is a 30+ microservice JHipster 9 platform built by Amar that powers reservation, calendar, maintenance, payment, voting, and AI chatbot capabilities for hospitality and small-business operations. It uses Spring Boot 3.x, Angular Module Federation, PostgreSQL with pgvector for AI semantic search, Apache Cassandra with SAI/ANN, and Model Context Protocol (MCP) integration so LLM agents can interact with platform data directly.

  • What open-source projects does Amar maintain?

    Two npm packages, both JHipster 9 blueprints. generator-jhipster-ai-postgresql adds AI semantic search to JHipster apps using PostgreSQL pgvector and OpenAI embeddings. generator-jhipster-cassandra adds Apache Cassandra support with composite primary keys, native paging-state pagination, and SAI/ANN vector search.

  • What patents does Amar hold?

    Two issued U.S. patents. US 9,734,001 — Efficient Health Management, Diagnosis and Prognosis of a Machine, granted while at Lockheed Martin. US 2006/0036954 — Web Services Based Portlet Catalog, originating from his IBM Extreme Blue internship.

  • Where is Amar based?

    Florida, United States — primarily between Florida City and the Orlando area.

  • What technologies does Amar use most?

    Java, Spring Boot 3.x, Spring AI, JHipster 9, TypeScript, modern Angular (standalone components, signals, Module Federation microfrontends), PostgreSQL with pgvector, Apache Cassandra, OpenAI embeddings, and Model Context Protocol (MCP). On the operations side: Docker, Heroku, Liquibase, Maven, Gradle, npm.

  • How can I contact Amar?

    Through LinkedIn at linkedin.com/in/amar-p-patel or GitHub at github.com/amarpatel-xx. Email is also welcome at amarppatel1@gmail.com.

  • What is Amar's background and education?

    Born in Kenya of Indian heritage, raised partly in England, settled in the United States as a teenager. Holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Florida International University's Honors College (2002, GPA 3.78), an M.B.A. from the University of Phoenix (2009, GPA 3.83), and an M.S. in Computer Science from Drexel University (2014, GPA 3.58).

  • Is Amar available for hire or consulting?

    Reach out via LinkedIn or email. He is open to interesting conversations around AI integration in enterprise systems, JHipster blueprint development, microservices architecture, and software engineering leadership.