Who I Am

I’m Nirav Patel, a rabble rouser, robot herder, meatsmith, moonshiner, psuedocryptozoologist, and all around eclecticc individual.  I’m also a recent graduate of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University and a software development engineer at Apple Inc.  I tend to dream more than act, but I spend much of my life realizing the dreams.  This blog is an attempt to share some of that and hopefully make some friends (or better, enemies) in the process.

My Résumé (fairly outdated)

Who I’m Not

A robot in disguise.

Where I Am

Sunnyvale, California.

Where I Am on The Internet

I’ve run and still run a few other websites, so if you feel the need to stalk me, here is a good list to start with:

• United SpongeBob – Started as Spongezone.net in 2002 as a Freshman in High School, but it is still alive and running.  It was also my main source of income until after my Sophomore year of college.
• Student Technology Outreach – I website I started for a student organization at CMU in 2007.
• n0r – This was basically just an excuse to own a three character domain name.  I use it mainly for testing, though it also holds git.n0r.org.
• My Facebook profile
• My YouTube channel
• My Vimeo page
• My Flickr photostream
• My OLPC user page

Who I Am on The Internet

I also exist elsewhere on the internet.  From middle school until the early years of college, I went primarily by the alias cmonkey.  Since then, I’ve switched to nrp, shorter and harder to laugh at.  You might find me as the following.

• nrp at CMU.  This includes my Andrew ID, ECE ID, and CS ID.
• nrpatel on GTalk
• ravepateel on AIM
• nrp on Freenode and EFnet
• cmonkey on United SpongeBob
• paintythepirate on Slashdot

Who I’m Not on The Internet

• Most of the results for Nirav Patel on Google, aside from links to this site, Facebook, or videos of an OLPC Game Jam.
• Most of the results for cmonkey on Google.