Summary
Munjal Patel is a founder and seasoned engineering leader with two decades of experience building enterprise software and 11 years in senior leadership roles driving platform and product engineering. Based in San Diego, he has led globally distributed teams at ServiceNow and ServiceTitan, scaling platforms that processed hundreds of millions in transactions and served millions of households. He now runs Simple, an AI-native business platform reimagining workflows with conversational intelligence and autonomous agents, and previously built GuideToGo, an AI-powered audio travel guide covering over 1.2 million destinations. A repeat founder and former CTO of GovIQ and Tivitie, he combines deep technical craftsmanship with product vision—creating high-impact systems such as language-detection for emergency services and enterprise work-management tools. He serves on multiple advisory boards focused on AI-enabled hiring, healthcare access, and family data security, signaling a strong interest in using technology for social impact. Notably, his background spans hands-on engineering through to CEO strategy, giving him rare fluency across product, platform, and go-to-market execution.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Masters Software Engineering (Dropout), Masters Software Engineering (Dropout) at Harvard University
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at National University
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science and Robotics, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science and Robotics at Lake Superior State University
English, Gujarati, Hindi