I'm a product manager who spent seven years at Merck before taking on a real-estate license and a few small businesses. I live in Edgewater Park, NJ with my wife and son.
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Holding company for a few small businesses. The two I spend most of my time on are Metta Realty Partners (a New Jersey real-estate practice affiliated with HomeSmart) and Metta Legacy Partners (helping owners sell their small businesses). I also operate two consumer Shopify stores: KiddieSketch and KiddieGo.
Owned the product roadmap for a set of clinical-trial analysis and reporting systems used by teams in the US, Europe, and Asia-Pacific.
Horsham, PA. EHR and Mirth Connect implementations. HL7 and FHIR troubleshooting via SQL Server Management Studio. Started as an application specialist, moved into commercial operations.
Master of Professional Studies in Data Analytics — May 2018
Graduate Certificate in Business Analytics — Aug 2017
Management & Marketing — May 2014
Certified Artificial Intelligence Product Management (2024) · Certified Agile Leader 1, Scrum Alliance (2024) · Mental Health First Aider (2024) · NJ Real Estate Salesperson
English · Hindi · Gujarati
A small selection of recommendations from people I worked with at Merck. The LinkedIn screenshots are in Japanese because my profile was set to Japanese at the time. A short English summary sits under each.
Product management — Agile, design thinking, OKR/KPI tracking, JIRA, Confluence, Figma, Mural. Data and engineering — SQL, Python, SAS, R, AWS. AI — applied LLM work, prompt engineering, local-model deployment on Ollama and vLLM. Healthcare standards — CDISC (SDTM, ADaM), HL7, FHIR, MedDRA, GxP. Operating side — Shopify, print-on-demand fulfillment, basic business brokerage, commercial real-estate underwriting (cap rate, DSCR, IRR), and Make.com automations.
Services are how I work directly with clients. Products are the consumer brands and content sites I own and operate.
Professional services I provide directly. Both run on the same operating principles: documented process, honest valuation, plain communication.
Residential and commercial real estate across Burlington, Camden, Gloucester, and the surrounding South Jersey / Greater Philadelphia area. Affiliated with HomeSmart.
mettarealtypartners.comConfidential brokerage for owners selling or buying small businesses. When the deal includes the property, the real-estate side is handled by Metta Realty Partners on the same schedule.
mettalegacypartners.comConsumer brands and content sites I own and operate.
A small Shopify store that turns a child's drawing — or a family photo rendered as a sketch — into a real gift: mug, framed print, hoodie, photo album, lightboard.
kiddiesketch.comOutdoor and active goods for kids — balance bikes, helmets, scooters, sidewalk gear. Curated, not a megastore. Drop-shipped from vetted suppliers. (Icon: my son, KiddieGo's first customer.)
kiddiego.comA Wordle variant built for younger players, in seventeen languages. No accounts, no ads in the play area, just the puzzle.
kiddiewordle.comMortgage and loan-rate reference with simple calculators. Pulls headline rates from FRED and lender feeds.
loanratesfinder.comSibling site to LoanRatesFinder, focused on local rate comparisons and short explainers for first-time borrowers.
freeratefinder.comPlain-English guides for people learning Python — what to read, what to skip, and where the popular courses actually fall short.
bestpythoncourse.comSends to hey@riketpatel.com — replies usually within a day.
My son. He's the reason most of this exists.
My wife and I are raising our son in Edgewater Park, New Jersey. Most of the work on the other two pages is in service of leaving him something durable. The day-to-day looks like the photos below.
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