# Parth Patel

> Parth Patel is a founding engineer at AfterQuery, the San Francisco applied research lab that turns expert reasoning and real-world work into training data and evaluation systems for AI. A 2021-2025 student at UC San Diego's Jacobs School of Engineering, he has since appeared publicly as a data adviser to ReactBench and as an AfterQuery engineering speaker, placing his work at the practical junction of software, data quality and model evaluation.

- **Role:** Founding Engineer at AfterQuery
- **Organizations:** AfterQuery, ReactBench
- **Education:** UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering
- **Known for:** Serves as a founding engineer at AfterQuery., Received a public data advisory credit on ReactBench., Selected as a speaker for an AfterQuery leadership panel co-hosted by Scope and the Trojan Investing Society at USC.

## Career timeline

- **2021-2025** — Studied at UC San Diego's Jacobs School of Engineering.
- **2025-2026** — Joined AfterQuery's early team and became a founding engineer in San Francisco.
- **2026** — Credited as a data adviser to ReactBench, a benchmark for evaluating coding agents on real React tasks.
- **2026** — Named as an engineering speaker for an AfterQuery leadership panel organized with USC student groups.

## Achievements

- Serves as a founding engineer at AfterQuery.
- Received a public data advisory credit on ReactBench.
- Selected as a speaker for an AfterQuery leadership panel co-hosted by Scope and the Trojan Investing Society at USC.
- Contributed advisory work to a benchmark release that filtered 23,100 candidate pull requests down to 39 retained tasks.

## Latest updates

- **2026-04** — Announced as a founding-engineer speaker for an AfterQuery leadership panel co-hosted by USC student organizations.
- **2026-07** — Credited for data advisory work on the public ReactBench release.

## Links

- Website: https://www.afterquery.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/p-k-patel
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/parth4apple
- GitHub: https://github.com/parth4apple

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Last updated: 2026-09-27