Rocket Agency ●
Voice & Chat AI Agents For SMBs · ~60% Of Inbound Volume Resolved
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📍 Currently: Calgary, Canada
Software engineer with 8+ years shipping products people use: Canada's national weather app, Face ID login at TD, AI experiments at Wattpad. UofT Machine Learning grad, now building AI agents for small businesses and moving into AI engineering full time.
Open to: AI Engineer and senior software engineering roles, in Calgary, remote, or the US.
manan.patel@outlook.com · Resume (PDF)
Rocket Agency ●Voice & Chat AI Agents For SMBs · ~60% Of Inbound Volume Resolved
GoalGetter ●Habit Tracking App That Helps You Reach Your Goals · 1,000+ MAU, Paying Subscribers
Countries Quiz ●Educational Geography Quiz App - Learn all the countries, flags, and capitals of the world · 500+ MAU
Connect with qualified mental health professionals across Canada
VAAI ●AI Texting & Lead Engagement For High-Touch Services
RentPlay ●Community Rewards Platform For Renters And For Shopping Local · 1,000+ Users, 100 Merchants
Try Everything ●Try Everything On The Menu At New Restaurants
Everything I've built, big and small
Watchlist of gamma exposure, call and put walls, and a strike-by-strike column view. Delayed CBOE data.
Calculate P&L for ES, NQ, MNQ, CL, MCL, GC, MGC and more futures contracts
Compound interest calculator with fixed or variable annual rates
100% Free, Multiple Currencies Supported
T4, pension, RDSP, T5008/trading, RRSP, WFH — approximate tax owed or refund (AB · BC · ON)
Enhanced RDSP calculator with advanced withdrawal planning and CRA rules
Plan TFSA, RRSP & Taxable growth with CPP/OAS and compare withdrawal strategies
Rocket Agency ●Voice & Chat AI Agents For SMBs · ~60% Of Inbound Volume Resolved
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GoalGetter ●Habit Tracking App That Helps You Reach Your Goals · 1,000+ MAU, Paying Subscribers
Visit
Countries Quiz ●Educational Geography Quiz App - Learn all the countries, flags, and capitals of the world · 500+ MAU
VisitConnect with qualified mental health professionals across Canada
Visit
VAAI ●AI Texting & Lead Engagement For High-Touch Services
Visit
RentPlay ●Community Rewards Platform For Renters And For Shopping Local · 1,000+ Users, 100 Merchants
Visit
Try Everything ●Try Everything On The Menu At New Restaurants
VisitA browser self-driving city sim to learn what cars see: camera-only vs lidar + HD map vs occupancy forecast. Three.js, Rust/WASM, PyTorch.
A clickable miniature city water system, loosely modelled on Calgary: river, treatment, reservoirs, mains, homes, sewers, wastewater treatment and back to the river. Facts from the City of Calgary. Three.js.
A clickable miniature of where garbage, recycling and compost go, loosely modelled on Calgary: carts, trucks, the recycling sorting line, compost rows, the landfill and its gas. Facts from the City of Calgary. Three.js.
A clickable miniature power grid: plants, substations, transmission lines, homes and an AI data center, each explained in plain words. Distilled from Power 2026. Three.js.
Build and run production voice and chat LLM agents for small businesses. They resolve about 60% of inbound calls and support tickets on their own, wired into Zendesk, Gorgias, HubSpot, Monday.com, and Shopify.
Lead a team of 4 on WeatherCAN, Canada's #3 weather app with 5M+ monthly users, plus Weather.gc.ca and Android. GPS severe-weather alerts with radar, lightning, and tornado tracking.
My cofounder, Aby Jerin, and I met at a hackathon. We turned a weekend idea into a real company, and we raised money to chase it. I built the web and mobile apps and a receipt OCR pipeline, and we grew to 1,000+ users and 100 merchants.
Lead engineer on the new Comments experience for 90M+ users, which tripled engagement. Also shipped experiments including speech to text and early AI video generation from text.
Helped TD become the first Canadian bank to ship Face ID, Touch ID, and two-factor auth across 5+ avenues.
Shipped WeatherCAN, Canada’s national weather app, with a two-person team in a year. It reached 1M+ users in its first year.
Trained models in Python and R to read the economic impact of foreign trade policy.
Built the UTSC Student Experience app so students could stay connected to campus from their phone.
I built a browser city sim to learn what Tesla-, Waymo-, and Waabi-style self-driving stacks see, how they plan, and how the data engine behind them works.
ReadTalk at Platform Calgary, July 2026. AI Summer School: Prompt to Response & Problems to Solve.
ReadA family Gino's Pizza in Stratford, Ontario, from 2010 to 2020. What it was like helping my parents and brother run it through high school, and what it taught me about expenses, sales, and hiring.
ReadReflections on building RentPlay, on co-founders, validation, distribution, B2B vs B2C, and why cashflow beats VC money.
ReadBalance sheet, income statement, cash flow, then seed through IPO as entries, not folklore.
ReadAssets, liabilities, equity, debt, and bonds. The equation every later statement is a view of.
ReadThe language before the numbers: accounting versus bookkeeping, GAAP, and what public and private companies actually disclose.
ReadExploring the latest SwiftUI features and modern iOS development practices.
ReadUnderstanding async/await and structured concurrency in Swift.
ReadModern networking patterns in iOS using async/await.
ReadBest practices for testing iOS applications with mock objects.
ReadHow I plan on getting 6 more adventures in 2026.
ReadTrying to see every corner of the world. Here's where I've been so far.
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