Tushar
Patel

Tushar is a savvy engineering executive who steers digital transformations from concept to execution. His experience scaling SaaS teams has propelled growth at both startups and large enterprises. Accomplished in B2B and B2B2C environments, Tushar has been deeply involved with product management, UX, and new releases. An innovation enthusiast, he embraces emerging technologies and data science, champions operational excellence, and guides continuous improvement across functions. Tushar seeks out opportunities to collaborate with vendors, colleagues, and C-Suite peers. A skilled Agile leader, he quickly understands the business objectives, assesses the situation, decides on a strategy, and takes action. His dedication to coaching and mentoring next generation talent yields strong teams and builds future technical leaders.

As a C-suite leader, Tushar has repeatedly built engineering organizations to propel growth. He swiftly defines the roadmap and has successfully revamped architectures while guiding platform modernization. His deep knowledge of enterprise applications and software development enables breakthrough product development. Tushar has also driven cost reduction programs to right size infrastructure and reposition resources for competitive advantage. His experience includes managing technical aspects of M&A due diligence and post-transaction integration programs. He has successfully moved SDLC from waterfall to Agile, introduced machine learning, and fostered innovation in complex global companies. His engineering organizations have reached 350 engineers working around the world including Argentina, India, Malaysia, and Russia, to name a few. Tushar has strong credentials across key technologies for data, cloud, security, monitoring, collaboration, and productivity.

Tushar graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from The Ohio State University. He continued his studies and earned a Master of Science in Computer Science from Columbia University. He is committed to continuing professional development and recently completed coursework in AI at Stanford University. He holds five patents in the areas of big data, modeling, and distributed enterprise applications. Away from his laptop, Tushar enjoys hiking, outdoor recreation and jazz.