Nirav Patel
Chief Technology Officer at The Linux Foundation
Huntsville, Alabama, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNirav Patel is a technology leader and CTO with eight years of senior product and engineering leadership, currently steering platform and developer-facing initiatives at The Linux Foundation from Huntsville, Alabama. He has a strong track record of taking products from zero to scale while building and aligning engineering organizations, with prior roles spanning VP and director level product/platform architecture. His background includes hands-on platform engineering and cloud-native work at Joyent, Rackspace, and Synapse Wireless, giving him deep operational knowledge of DevOps and CNCF ecosystems. Nirav blends technical depth with business acumen—holding an MBA in Computer Information Systems—and often serves as a fractional CTO to help startups shape tech strategy. Colleagues know him for turning complex distributed-system requirements into pragmatic roadmaps and for navigating open-source governance at scale. He brings a pragmatic, systems-first mindset that pairs platform architecture with product outcomes rather than purely technical innovation.
8 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science and Engineering at North Maharashtra UniversityMaster of Business Administration - MBA, Computer Information Systems, Master of Business Administration - MBA, Computer Information Systems at University of North Alabama
Github Skills (21)
golang9
foundation8
kubernetes7
cdp7
data-platform7
linux7
svg7
cli7
serverless6
k8s6
open-source6
console6
cloud-native5
testing2
generator1
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
niravpatel27/express
Jul 2020 - Feb 2026
Fast, unopinionated, minimalist web framework for node.
Contributions:5 PRs, 10 pushes, 12 branches in 5 years 8 months
minimalistframeworknodejsunopinionatedweb-framework
opensbom-generator/spdx-sbom-generator
May 2021 - Nov 2021
Support CI generation of SBOMs via golang tooling.
Contributions:18 releases, 75 reviews, 111 commits in 5 months
golang
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