Fenil Bharatkumar Patel

Building systems where AI, software, and business strategy converge.

Technology & business builderTampa, FloridaFive systems ↓each sits where its strands cross

Selected work5 systems, each at a crossing

AI systems

Memory Vault

Memory that travels between AI tools, with its history intact.

What one AI tool learns rarely carries into the next — and when it does, nobody can tell where it came from or whether it is still true.

Strands:

Search

LawJobs.co

Scattered job listings, validated and made searchable.

Listings sit across many sites in many formats, rarely in the form a job-seeker actually needs.

Strands:

Local AI

Local Crawler & Summarizer

The whole retrieval loop, running on one machine.

Hosted model APIs hide how extraction, retrieval, and inference actually interact — and keep the data somewhere else.

Strands:

RAG

OCPD Assistant

A focused assistant that knows one corpus well.

A bounded body of career information is only useful if people can question it in their own words.

Strands:

Developer tooling

Claude Code skills

Working practice, encoded as skills — design, tier, deadman, and a research toolkit.

AI-assisted engineering drifts without discipline: pages ship unverified, expensive models get spent on mechanical work, long sessions die unattended, and research goes unsourced.

Strands:

About — where the three already touch

I am a technology and business builder. Trained as a mechanical engineer, I began in enterprise IT at Tata Consultancy Services, went on to serve as technical advisor and co‑technical head at the startup Samuh Digital, and completed an MBA at the University of South Florida’s Muma College of Business. Today my independent work centers on AI memory and retrieval systems, search tooling, and product experiments each built with equal regard for technical soundness and practical usefulness.

Tata Consultancy Services · Samuh Digital · MBA, University of South Florida · B.Tech, Mechanical Engineering

Layers — seven, each belonging to a strand

The strands unbraid into the tools.

  1. Data, retrieval & AI, AI

    FAISS · LanceDB · PostgreSQL · pgvector · vector search · RAG · embeddings · retrieval systems · local LLMs · Ollama · AI agents & agent workflows · prompt & context design

  2. Programming, Software

    Python · Java · SQL · JavaScript · TypeScript · R

  3. Front end & back end, Software

    React · Next.js · Tailwind CSS · HTML / CSS · Streamlit · WordPress integration · FastAPI · REST / HTTP · API integration

  4. Automation, cloud & tooling, Software

    Playwright · Chromium automation · Git · GitHub · Vercel · Cloudflare Pages · Railway · Supabase

  5. Enterprise systems, Business

    WebLogic · WinSCP · ITIL incident management · change management · SLA operations · troubleshooting · root-cause analysis

  6. Analytics & business, Business

    Excel · Tableau · dashboards · requirements analysis · stakeholder analysis · process improvement · risk assessment · documentation · presentations

  7. Mechanical engineering, origin

    SolidWorks · 3D modeling & visualization

Track — knots along the braid

From production support to product work to building on my own terms.

  1. June 2021 – November 2022; strands: Software, Business

    Tata Consultancy Services

    Associate System Engineer

    Enterprise IT and application support inside a large delivery organization: Java, SQL, and WebLogic in production; ITIL-aligned incident and change management under service-level commitments; issue triage, root-cause analysis, documentation, and coordination across teams.

  2. November 2022 – April 2023; strands: Software, Business

    Samuh Digital

    Technical Advisor / Co-Technical Head

    The other end of the spectrum: a startup, where the work was building websites, refining products and features, identifying and resolving bugs, giving technical direction, and guiding interns through practical delivery.

  3. Ongoing; strands: AI, Software, Business

    Independent building

    Independent builder — AI systems and product

    AI memory and retrieval systems, search tooling, crawlers and summarizers, retrieval-augmented assistants, research tools, analytics work, and venture experiments — alongside an MBA that added the finance, strategy, and new-venture lens.

  4. MBA; strands: Business

    Master of Business Administration

    University of South Florida — Muma College of Business · Tampa, Florida

    Capstone — Batson-Cook Construction: A strategic analysis built from stakeholder interviews, SWOT, and competitor and business-model analysis, synthesized into recommendations spanning a training academy, client dashboards, subcontractor filtering, market expansion, thought leadership, and AI risk governance.

  5. origin

    B.Tech, Mechanical Engineering

    3D modeling & visualization · SolidWorks · Engineering fundamentals

    What it left behind: The habit of designing systems that have to work physically — tolerances, failure modes, and constraints made explicit — which still shapes how I build software.

Approach — five tightenings

  1. Ambiguity becomes a prototype.

    Open questions are answered fastest by something that runs. A working prototype exposes the real requirements sooner than any document, and it gives everyone the same object to argue about.

  2. Systems, not features.

    Approval flows, permissions, deletion, and the line between what is current and what is past decide whether a system can be trusted. I design those first and treat features as consequences.

  3. Context is the product.

    Better retrieval, memory, and provenance make AI genuinely useful. The model is the smaller part; the context system around it is where most of the engineering lives.

  4. Optimize what matters.

    Measure recall, latency, and cost where they change a decision, and leave the rest alone. Optimization is a choice about what the system is for.

  5. Name the tradeoff.

    Local versus hosted, recall versus noise, speed versus governance — every design carries a cost. Writing it down is part of the work, not an admission.

Ventures & other work

  • Artivana

    A U.S.-focused handicrafts venture built around Indian craftsmanship.

    Active concept.

    Strands: Software, Business. Next.js · Supabase · Shopify (exploration)

  • Law Review Assistant

    Retrieval and synthesis across an archive of law-review PDFs.

    Strands: AI, Software. PDF ingestion · retrieval · search · synthesis

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Let’s talk.

fenilbharatkumarpatel@gmail.com

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