| Birthplace | India |
| Florida State University, MS | |
| Computer Science |
Nikhil Patel has over 10 years of experience in development of Enterprise Datacenter Management software. He spent most of his career at Microsoft working on System Center Suite of products. He has been instrumental in shipping many V1 products under System Center Suite, which now add combined revenue of over 300 million annually. His current passion is around cloud computing and he is spending majority of his time at Microsoft developing software that will enable enterprise adopt cloud computing in their datacenter. He is currently a Test Manager for System Center Suite leading a team of tester across the continents.