About

Hey! I'm Krut Patel. Welcome to my little corner of the internet!

Having graduated from the University of Illinois with a Masters in CS (Spring 2025), I am now working at Nvidia as a compiler engineer with the CUDA team. HMU if you are in the Puget Sound area!

Prior to this, I was a Research Fellow at Microsoft Research India, building a native query execution engine for accelerating Big Data queries using Just-In-Time compilation.

I love pushing the boundaries of computing performance, and am always exploring the fields of Compilers, Databases and Computer Systems.

Much of my time is spent browsing HN and automating all the repetitive stuff using Python scripts.

My Reading Activity

I am an avid reader and primarily enjoy speculative fiction. Ted Chiang is my favourite author; everyone should read The Great Silence at least once a year!

The following Github-style graph shows the time devoted to reading novels on a daily basis. Extracted from Moon+ Reader using moonreader-py.

Currently reading: The Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson