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# Bharat Patel
Data engineer at Intuit building context engines that process 8 billion events daily.

## About

Bharat Patel builds high-scale data streaming platforms at Intuit. He leads the engineering behind the company's Customer Data Cloud, a system that processes over eight billion events daily to power real-time personalization and AI workflows.

His work focuses on moving away from stale batch data toward event-driven AI loops. He architects config-driven pipelines using Apache Flink and Kafka, ensuring autonomous agents have up-to-the-second context while maintaining strict privacy controls.


## Upcoming Sessions

### World Congress 2026 North America · September 23, 2026
San José, CA
- [AI Agents are Only as Smart as their Context: Building a Real-Time Context Engine at Intuit](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1736-ai-agents-are-only)





## Links

- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/patelbharatr/)