Ritesh Patel
Co-founder And VP Products at Nirmata
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRitesh Patel is an entrepreneurial technology leader and co-founder with 11+ years of experience building cloud-native, container and Kubernetes-focused product platforms from strategy through execution. As VP of Products at Nirmata he combines hands-on software and systems architecture experience with go-to-market and partnership skills honed at Brocade, driving secure, production-grade orchestration solutions for enterprises. He blends deep engineering chops across SDN, virtualization, security and cloud management with MBA-level finance and M&A valuation savvy to align product roadmaps with business outcomes. Earlier roles at Trapeze, Nortel and Motorola show a sustained record of shipping networking and distributed systems software and leading cross-border engineering teams. An active contributor to the Java Docker ecosystem, he has implemented container creation features and docker stats/networkMode support—underscoring his practical open-source impact on container tooling. Based in San Jose, he is known for translating complex technical constraints into partner-friendly solutions that accelerate adoption.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
MBA Finance & Strategy, MBA Finance & Strategy at University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of BusinessBachelor of Engineering Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering Electrical Engineering at University of MumbaiMS Computer Engineering, MS Computer Engineering at Michigan State UniversitySSC Math, SSC Math at Utpal Shanghvi SchoolSanta Clara University Leavey School of Business
Github Skills (8)
docker-java10
javas10
client-library10
docker10
api10
dockers10
java10
testing9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
docker-java/docker-java
Apr 2015 - Jan 2016
Java Docker API Client
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 PRs, 17 comments, 3 issues in 9 months
Contributions summary:Ritesh contributed to the Java Docker API Client by implementing features for container creation, including support for environment variables and hostnames. They fixed issues with the `StartContainerCmd`, specifically addressing incorrect header settings and adding null checks. Additional contributions involved resolving merge conflicts and addressing use case issues in testing related to container starting. The user also added support for docker stats and networkMode.
docker-apijavadockerapiclient-library
nirmata/sample-integrations
Apr 2018 - Mar 2021
Example YAMLs for Kubernetes
Contributions:3 PRs, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 11 months
cuelanghelmclient-gok8skubernetes
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