Nilesh Patel is an Offering Manager working on the IBM Cloud Container Service and ISTIO. Since joining IBM, he has managed several devOps products in the area of deployment and releases automation. Most recently, Nilesh is helping to drive Istio and Kubernetes adoption by working with customers, partners, and community at large. Nilesh serves as a member of Istio governance team. Prior to IBM, he managed security products at Symantec. Mr. Patel earns his MBA from Golden Gate University in Information Technology. He lives in Austin, Texas.