Pratik Patel

Pratik Patel has a diverse work experience spanning over two decades. Pratik is currently serving as the VP Developer Advocacy at Azul, where they lead the community and developer advocate team and provides strategic vision to the C-level on product features and development. Prior to their current role, they worked at IBM as a Team Lead and Principal Developer Advocate, leading a small team and focusing on serverless, Kube, Java, and Big Data. Pratik also has experience as the CTO of TripLingo, where they served for seven years, and as a Team Lead and Principal Technical Architect at AT&T. Pratik has held the position of CTO at both Smart Frameworks Inc and Deutsche Bank, where they were the lead technical architect for web infrastructure. Throughout their work experience, Pratik has demonstrated leadership skills, mentoring capabilities, and a hands-on approach to code writing and content creation.

Pratik Patel holds a Master's degree in Informatics/Biomedical Engineering from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The exact duration of their time at the institution is not specified.