Krish Patel

Computer Science @ University of Waterloo

I'm a computer science student at the University of Waterloo and an engineer focused on building cool AI systems and exploring blockchain infrastructure

I've worked at both startups and large tech companies on ML infrastructure and agentic systems, and I enjoy turning research ideas into real-world products. Outside of work, I like playing and watching sports and exploring new cities :)

Education

University of Waterloo

University of Waterloo

Bachelor of Computer Science, Honours Co-op

Expected Graduation: April 2028 • GPA: 3.95/4.0

Experience

Coinbase

Incoming Software Engineer Intern

Coinbase
May 2026 - Sep 2026San Francisco, CA

I will be joining the Platform team to build infrastructure that powers the future of decentralized finance at scale

Shopify

Machine Learning Engineer Intern

Shopify
Jan 2026 - Apr 2026Toronto, ON

I am building machine learning systems to detect and prevent fraud, helping protect millions of merchants and customers while maintaining safe and trusted commerce worldwide

Intact Lab

AI Engineer Intern

Intact Lab
Sep 2025 - Dec 2025Toronto, ON

I created multi-agent AI systems to automate internal newsletter generation and worked on context engineering for agentic coding assistants using MCP, enabling the assistants to reason over and integrate with Intact's existing internal tools, libraries, and workflows

Nexxa.ai (a16z-backed)

Machine Learning Engineer Intern

Nexxa.ai (a16z-backed)
Jan 2025 - Apr 2025Sunnyvale, CA

I built a multi-agent AI system for one of Europe's largest rail companies that automates AutoCAD reconstruction from scanned engineering diagrams, significantly reducing manual engineering effort

PlateHack

Software Engineer Intern

PlateHack
May 2024 - Aug 2024Toronto, ON

I helped build the core meal recommendation engine, designed evaluation frameworks to measure recommendation quality, and contributed to additional user-facing product features

Co-inventor on US Patent 12,106,843 B1
Waterloo Blockchain

Lead Developer

Waterloo BlockchainSep 2024 - Present

Building to bring students onchain at Canada's largest student-run blockchain organization

Waterloo Aerial Robotics Group

Engineering

Waterloo Aerial Robotics GroupJan 2024 - Dec 2024

Driving autonomous flight capabilities through computer vision and intelligent decision-making systems that enable drones to perform complex tasks independently

Projects

Train in a Snap!

AR training platform on Snapchat Spectacles using NLP-generated 3D objects for emergency scenarios. Built real-time WebSocket backend enabling hands-free AI voice guidance.

Snap Lens Studio • Snap3D • Vapi • Heroku • FastAPI

🏆 Top 32 / 261 at Hack the North 2025

Charitree

Transparent charitable transaction monitoring platform using blockchain. Deployed a Layer 1 blockchain on Avalanche's Layer 0 protocol with smart contracts for secure transactions.

Ethers.js • React.js • Hardhat • Solidity • Avalanche CLI • PostgreSQL

🥇 Best PoC at HawkHacks 2024 ($1700)

Project Sign

Educational web app for learning sign language through interactive activities. Engineered a feedforward neural network for real-time sign language recognition, integrating OpenCV and MediaPipe with a Streamlit frontend.

TensorFlow • OpenCV • Keras • React.js • FastAPI • Streamlit • Google MediaPipe • NumPy

Stock Trading Simulator

Stock trading simulation platform for beginner investors to practice with mock currency. Built interactive Java Swing frontend with PHP backend for authentication, integrating Yahoo Finance and Finnhub APIs for real-time market data.

Java • PHP • Java Swing • Yahoo Finance API