Jignesh Patel
Senior Manager, Software Test at Ciena
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolJignesh Patel is a Senior Manager in Software Test with two decades of experience building and scaling quality engineering for cloud-scale and carrier-grade networking platforms. He has deep domain expertise in IP routing, EVPN, Segment Routing (SR/SRv6) and test automation for disaggregated, microservices-based NOS deployed by hyper-scalers and Tier-1 carriers. At Ciena he grew and matured QA orgs, introduced telemetry-driven analytics and risk-based automation, and is now leading practical AI adoption—agentic workflows and generative analytics—to improve test prioritization and anomaly detection. He combines hands-on protocol knowledge with program-level delivery, having managed multi-million dollar lab budgets and cross-border teams to accelerate product acceptance and reduce time-to-revenue. Known for turning complex network validation problems into sustainable automation and talent development strategies, he bridges Development, DevOps, QA and Data Science to measurably improve engineering efficiency.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Physics, Bachelor of Science, Physics at University of MumbaiM.S, Computer Science, M.S, Computer Science at City University of New YorkPMP, Project Management, PMP, Project Management at Project Management Institute
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Github Skills (185)
mobile-development10
windows10
flutter-packages10
flame10
chat10
rest-api10
bloc10
concurrency10
graphql-api10
angulardart10
flutter-plugin10
app-framework10
api10
sdk10
skia10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
JigneshWorld/Notes-MVP
Feb 2016 - Jul 2021
Contributions:10 PRs, 6 pushes, 5 branches in 5 years 6 months
notesmvp
JigneshPatel23/flutter_packages_platform_support
Sep 2019 - Mar 2021
Flutter packages support for different platform
Contributions:9 commits, 1 PR, 8 pushes in 1 year 6 months
flutter-packages
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