Swati Patel

Swati Patel is a Software Engineer at Meta (formerly Facebook), where she has been working since July 2017. Based in Menlo Park, California, she has a diverse background in software development and data analysis.

Education and Early Career

Swati Patel completed her studies at San Francisco State University, where she was involved in research focusing on data mining and natural language processing (NLP). As a Research Assistant from February 2016 to June 2017, she worked on a project analyzing the diffusion of new TV shows on Twitter, utilizing over 300 GB of streaming tweets. This research included link-based analysis using the PageRank algorithm and topic modeling to categorize Twitter users and understand information diffusion patterns.

Professional Experience

Before joining Meta, Patel held several positions:

• Software Engineer, Android Team at Pulse Secure (June 2016 - February 2017): She developed an Android application that provided a secure browsing experience for enterprise VPN users.

• Data Analyst and Salesforce Developer at San Francisco State University (September 2015 - November 2015): In this role, she ensured data quality in the Salesforce database and created reports for data visualization.

• Web Developer Intern at TFI Fellowship (May 2015 - October 2015): She worked on building a secure Salesforce-based web portal for a nonprofit organization.

Additionally, Patel has entrepreneurial experience as a founder and developer at Aim MDS, where she contributed to the technical design and software implementation of educational resources.

Skills and Expertise

Her skill set includes software development, data preprocessing, visualization, natural language processing, clustering techniques, and sentiment analysis, making her a well-rounded engineer in both software and data domains.1