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Pratik Patel

CTO & Chief Architect | AI · Cloud · Web3 | 3x Company Builder | Startup Co-Founder (Acquired)

Washington, DC (Open to Remote) · pratik@pa.tel · (518) 636-9399

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Executive summary

Technology executive and hands-on architect with 11+ years building and scaling engineering organizations and shipping products to hundreds of thousands of users.

Three-time company builder: grew a 30-person engineering org at AWS, co-founded and sold a blockchain studio via acquisition by Dapper Labs, and took a healthtech startup from napkin sketch to 50K+ users as founding CTO.

Proven ability to set technical strategy, recruit world-class teams, manage multi-million-dollar P&Ls, raise venture capital, and close M&A transactions.

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Career highlights

  • Founding CTO

    Built a HIPAA-compliant healthtech platform from zero to 50K+ users in under 12 months; owned all technology, budget, hiring, and vendor strategy.

  • Startup Founder & M&A

    Recruited a 15-person engineering team, generated revenue across 5 client contracts, and orchestrated the full acquisition by Dapper Labs including due diligence, financials, and legal.

  • Enterprise Org Builder

    Created and led a 30-person engineering organization at AWS spanning 4 teams; shipped security automation used across all AWS service launches.

  • Capital Raiser & Board Operator

    Raised $3.5M across multiple venture rounds, presented technology vision to investors and board members, and managed technology budgets delivering under plan.

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Experience

  1. tarobase.role

    Chief Architect

    Aug 2025 – Present

    Tarobase (poof.new)

    Web3 startup building AI-powered tools for vibe-coded dApps — team of 5

    • Define and own the company's full-stack technical architecture and platform strategy, designing multi-tenant isolation with cost-efficient unit economics at scale.
    • Architected and shipped the deployment pipeline and edge caching layer that reduced sandbox cold-start times by 60%, supporting 5K+ concurrent user sessions.
    • Established the agentic AI strategy and delivered automated test harnesses for Claude Code agent workflows and MCP integrations, accelerating feature velocity within the first 90 days.
    • Own the full technical roadmap, infrastructure cost model, and architecture decisions; serve as the primary technical voice to investors and partners.
    • Designed and shipped a multi-LLM routing layer that intelligently directs requests across model providers based on task complexity, cutting AI infrastructure costs while maintaining output quality.
  2. eddii.role

    Chief Technology Officer

    May 2023 – Aug 2025 (Advisor to Dec 2025)

    eddii

    Seed-stage healthtech startup — AI-powered diabetes management — sole technical executive — team of 6

    • Served as the sole C-level technology leader: defined product and technology strategy, architected the full HIPAA-compliant platform from scratch, and delivered to market on time and 20% under budget.
    • Scaled the platform to 50K+ users in under 12 months, validating product-market fit and forging strategic partnerships with healthcare providers and insurers.
    • Pioneered the AI/ML strategy, integrating LLMs to deliver personalized health insights via an AI-powered chatbot that drove a 35% increase in daily active usage within 6 months.
    • Led investor-facing technical demos and narrative that directly contributed to closing $3.5M across multiple venture rounds; managed the full technology P&L and all engineering hiring.
  3. dapper.role

    Co-Founder & CTO -> Senior Software Engineer II

    Jun 2021 – May 2023

    Dapper Labs (via Acq. of Zay Codes)

    Co-founded blockchain studio — acquired by Dapper Labs — retained post-acquisition to lead technical integration — team of 15

    • Co-founded the company, recruited and managed a 15-person engineering team, and secured 5 client contracts to design and ship production dApps on the Flow blockchain.
    • Won $100K+ in hackathon prizes building open-source developer tools, raising brand visibility across the Flow ecosystem and accelerating acquisition interest from Dapper Labs.
    • Managed full P&L and led all acquisition negotiations and legal workstreams end-to-end, culminating in a successful acqui-hire by Dapper Labs.
    • Built the NFT Catalog (adopted as a community-wide standard) and Flow Runner; delivered the API integration used by Instagram to display Flow-based NFTs.
  4. amazon.role

    Senior SDE -> Lead, Proactive Security

    Jan 2015 – Mar 2022

    Amazon Web Services

    Promoted from Senior SDE to build and lead a new security organization — 4 teams, 30+ engineers; helped scale the broader org from 10 to 100+ engineers across 20+ teams

    • Hand-picked by VP-level leadership to build a new security engineering organization from the ground up: recruited and led 30+ engineers across 4 teams and owned delivery of automation products org-wide.
    • Shipped a fuzzing and API-model-driven security testing framework covering all 15K+ AWS public APIs, eliminating manual test authoring across service launches.
    • Injected automated security review into the AWS SDLC, replacing a multi-month manual process and significantly accelerating AWS service launches.
    • Designed and shipped a web-based SSH client adopted by 15K+ daily users; led an account management platform handling 50K daily users at 300+ TPS.
    • Drove development of the SSO/MFA authentication service for 1.5M+ Amazon employees; built an operator authorization service used across AWS safety-critical workflows.
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Technical skills

Languages
TypeScript, JavaScript, Java, Python, Go, Ruby, Bash, C/C++, Cadence, Solidity
Frameworks & Runtime
React, Next.js, Node.js, Bun, Express, Ruby on Rails, Playwright
Cloud & Infrastructure
AWS (EC2, S3, Lambda, DynamoDB, CloudFront, IAM), GCP, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Cloudflare Workers
AI & Machine Learning
LLM Integration (Claude, GPT), Agentic AI (MCP, Claude Code), Deep Learning, ML Pipelines, AI Model Deployment, NLP, Prompt Engineering, RAG
Blockchain & Web3
Flow (Cadence), EVM (Solidity), Smart Contracts, dApp Architecture, NFT Standards, Tokenomics
Architecture & Systems
Distributed Systems at Scale, Microservices, SOA, Event-Driven, API-First Design, High Availability, Data Architecture, Security Engineering, Platform Engineering
Governance & Delivery
Agile/Scrum, DevOps, CI/CD (GitHub Actions), Observability, HIPAA/SOC 2, FinOps, Vendor Management
Executive Leadership
Technology Strategy & Roadmapping, P&L Ownership, Cross-Functional Leadership, Technical Due Diligence & M&A, Talent Acquisition, Stakeholder & Board Communication, Capital Raising
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Education

M.S., Computer Science & Computer Engineering (Dual Major)

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

GPA: 3.8 | Dean's List | RPI Medalist

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Publications & open source

  • Vibe Check

    Open-source TypeScript framework for testing and evaluating AI agent workflows; built internally at Tarobase and released to the community (github.com/poofdotnew/vibe-check).

  • Developing Elastic Software for the Cloud

    S. Imai, P. Patel, C. Varela — Encyclopedia of Cloud Computing, Ch. 50, Wiley-IEEE Press, 2016.

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