Pradnesh Patil is a product and engineering leader with 9 years of experience who now co-founds and leads Altimate AI, building AI teammates that accelerate data teams through automated data transformations, documentation, testing, and performance work. He has a strong background in cloud infrastructure and security product leadership, having driven product and engineering efforts at Cisco, VMware, and Palo Alto Networks to integrate cutting‑edge AI/ML and multi‑cloud container management features. Comfortable at the intersection of product, go-to-market, and deep technical delivery, he has scoped complex integrations (Istio, Prometheus/Grafana, configuration management tools) and translated technical requirements into shipped releases. His career began in hands-on software engineering at Symantec, giving him practical systems and automation expertise that informs his product decisions. Based in the Bay Area with an MBA from USC and an MS in Software Engineering, he blends startup grit with enterprise-grade process rigor. He’s also recruiting talent for Altimate AI, signaling a founder who remains actively involved in hiring and product-market fit.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) Marketing, Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) Marketing at University of Southern California
MS Software Engineering (Enterprise Software Technologies), MS Software Engineering (Enterprise Software Technologies) at San José State University
BE Computer Science, BE Computer Science at Walchand College of Engineering(A Govt. Aided Autonomous Institute),SANGLI-M.S
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