Jakir Patel is an Application Engineer with eight years of experience building and operating cloud-native platforms, currently working at Fast Retailing in Tokyo's Chiyoda district. He blends hands-on engineering in Python and Go with DevOps and platform leadership, having led observability and platform teams at Rakuten where he managed large-scale monitoring and automated workflows. Jakir has moved between individual contributor and people-lead roles—running scrums, KPIs, and code reviews—while also publishing technical content as a Kuberneteslab blogger. His background includes freelance DevOps projects and founding a web agency, showing both product instincts and infrastructure depth. He holds an MBA focused on strategy and leadership alongside an engineering degree, a combination that informs his pragmatic, metrics-driven approach to platform reliability. An interesting detail: he has operational experience with high-density compute environments and sustained alerting at scale, giving him a practical edge in stabilizing complex systems.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Post graduate in management, Strategy and Leadership, A+, Post graduate in management, Strategy and Leadership, A+ at Institute of Management Technology, Ghaziabad
Engineer’s Degree, Computer Engineering, A, Engineer’s Degree, Computer Engineering, A at Pune Institute of Computer Technology
Diploma, Information Technology, A, Diploma, Information Technology, A at Government Polytechnic Nashik
High School, High School/Secondary Certificate Programs, A+, High School, High School/Secondary Certificate Programs, A+ at New English School Mula Karkhana
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Strategy and Leadership, A, Master of Business Administration - MBA, Strategy and Leadership, A at Liverpool John Moores University
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