Nirav Patel
Chief Technology Officer at The Linux Foundation
Huntsville, Alabama, United States
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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 (44)
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
niravpatel27/express
Jul 2020 - Dec 2024
Fast, unopinionated, minimalist web framework for node.
Contributions:5 PRs, 10 pushes, 11 branches in 4 years 6 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
golangtooling
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