# About Jay Patel

> Software Developer · UI/UX Designer · Product Manager · Creative Director · Video Editor. Founding-grade full-stack engineer who ships healthcare platforms, trains small language models, and still builds games for fun.

## Roles

- **Software Developer**, Flutter, Next.js 16, Bun + Hono, Python. 30+ shipped products across mobile, web, and backend.
- **UI/UX Designer**, Design systems in Figma/Adobe XD translated into component libraries users actually enjoy.
- **Product Manager**, Problem → stakeholders → scope → ship. Roadmaps owned end-to-end on founding-team timelines.
- **Creative Director**, Narrative, motion, sound design, and the taste to know when less is more.
- **Video Editor**, Cuts, pacing, and motion graphics, shipping the product includes telling its story.

## The short version

I'm a founding-engineer-grade full-stack developer from Anand, Gujarat, with 4+ years across TypeScript, Dart/Flutter, Python, and Solidity. I've built production apps spanning Flutter, React Native, Next.js, Angular, and Astro, backed by Bun + Hono APIs running on infrastructure I migrated off big cloud bills onto Docker, Coolify, and Traefik myself.

I architected [Aviz Health](/projects/aviz-health.md), three Flutter apps plus a Next.js admin console live on Google Play as v2.0, rebuilt the [Swalook CRM](/projects/swalook.md) platform from the ground up, and served as Founding Engineer at [Genuinest](/projects/genuinest.md). On the research side, I train small language models from scratch ([Vini and Tini](/projects/vini-tini.md), BitNet b1.58 ternary architecture) for edge deployment, one of them is published on HuggingFace.

Along the way: first place in the FinTech track at CHARUSAT-Odoo Hackathon 2025 out of 650+ applicants, a Technical Leadership Award, certifications across Google Cloud, AWS, MongoDB, Meta, and DataCamp, and a B.Tech in Information Technology from A.D. Patel Institute of Technology.

If it ships, I can build it, design it, plan it, film it, and make the launch trailer for it.

## Beyond the code

- **Gamer, professionally unprofessional**, Games taught me systems thinking before any textbook did: economies, feedback loops, difficulty curves, why players quit.
- **Game dev experiments**, Godot projects: physics sandboxes, mechanics prototypes, the occasional boss fight nobody asked for.
- **Homelab operator**, A self-hosted stack runs at home: Ollama inference, n8n automation workflows, vector databases, a 20TB storage cluster.
- **Sound & motion tinkerer**, This site's lightsaber theme-toggle swoosh was synthesized by hand with the Web Audio API.

## Links

- Projects: [jayptl.me/projects](/projects.md)
- GitHub: [github.com/jayptl-me](https://github.com/jayptl-me)
- HuggingFace: [huggingface.co/jayptl-rq](https://huggingface.co/jayptl-rq)
- Email: hello@jayptl.me