Ritesh Patel is a co-founder and VP of Product at Nirmata, a cloud-native application management platform built on Kubernetes. Ritesh has 15 years of experience in enterprise software development and team leadership. Prior to Nirmata, Ritesh was responsible for private cloud strategy and business development at Brocade where he led various OpenStack-related initiatives and created a partner ecosystem. Ritesh has also held key technical positions at Trapeze Networks, Nortel, and Motorola. Ritesh holds an MBA from UC Berkeley and an MS from Michigan State University.