Chirayu Patel

Current

• Chief Developer, Founder at SnappyFingers

Past

• CTO, Co-Founder at Span Across
• Technical Architect at Continuous Computing
• Independent Consultant at All Play No Work

• Senior Staff Engineer at Intel
• Architect at Trillium Digital Systems
• Senior Software Engg at Wipro

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Industry

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Websites

• SnappyFingers | Answer Search

Chirayu Patel’s Summary

Conceptualize, architect and develop scalable web based products with extreme capital efficiency.

Chirayu Patel’s Specialties:

cloud computing, scalable web infrastructure, text processing, search engines, telecom and datacom protocols

Chirayu Patel’s Experience

• Chief Developer, Founder

  SnappyFingers

  (Privately Held; Internet industry)

  March 2008 — Present (1 year 5 months)

  SnappyFingers is a vertical search engine. It crawls and indexes FAQ's on the Internet, and provides search results in a easy to view Q&A format.

• CTO, Co-Founder

  Span Across

  (Financial Services industry)

  November 2006 — December 2007 (1 year 2 months)

  Built TaxSpanner, an online solution to help individuals in preparing and filing of income tax (in India).
  
  I was involved with the design/development of TaxSpanner, relationship management with sub-contractors, online/offline advertisement campaigns and branding.

• Technical Architect

  Continuous Computing

  (Privately Held; Telecommunications industry)

  July 2004 — November 2006 (2 years 5 months)

  Assist customers and internal teams in the design and development of telecom and VOIP protocol software systems with a focus on high performance and fault tolerance.

• Independent Consultant

  All Play No Work

  (Computer Software industry)

  June 2003 — July 2004 (1 year 2 months)

  Worked on the design and development of SS7 and Sigtran products. Played an active role in the IPv6 working group at IETF.
  
  Co-authored RFC 4389 (Neighbor Discovery Proxies (ND Proxy)), and RFC 3964 (Security Considerations for 6to4).

• Senior Staff Engineer

  Intel

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; INTC; Semiconductors industry)

  July 2001 — July 2003 (2 years 1 month)

  Joined Intel as part of the Trillium acquisition. Involved in the architecture of protocol stack management solutions, rolling upgrades, and SS7 and Sigtran based integrated products.

• Architect

  Trillium Digital Systems

  (Telecommunications industry)

  June 1998 — August 2000 (2 years 3 months)

  Design and development of Trillium's DFT/HA (Distributed Fault Tolerance and High Availability) architecture (US Patent: 6865591). Development, maintenance, pre sales of the SS7, Sigtran protocol stacks.

• Senior Software Engg

  Wipro

  (Financial Services industry)

  1996 — 1998 (2 years)

  Sustenance of various datacom protocols.

Additional Information

Chirayu Patel’s Websites:

• SnappyFingers | Answer Search