Supal Patel
About Supal Patel
Supal Patel is the Director of Platform Engineering at Coupa Software, with extensive experience in software engineering and enterprise application development.
Company
Supal Patel is currently employed at Coupa Software as the Director of Platform Engineering. Based in San Mateo, California, he began this role in 2022. Coupa Software is known for cloud-based spend management solutions and has a global presence.
Title
Supal Patel holds the position of Director of Platform Engineering at Coupa Software. His role involves overseeing the engineering strategies and execution for the company's platform services.
Professional Background
Before joining Coupa Software, Supal Patel amassed significant experience at various reputable companies. He served as the Director of Engineering at Blueshield of California from 2009 to 2022, where he worked for 13 years. Prior to that, he held the position of Senior Software Engineer at Intelliswift Inc. for 5 months in 2008-2009. He has also worked as a Software Engineer at Datamatics Global Services in Mumbai for 5 months in 2003-2004. He gained extensive experience at IBM India Pvt Ltd, where he worked as a Staff Software Engineer in Pune for 5 years from 2003 to 2008. His early career included a stint at C-SAM Inc. (Previously Popnet Infotext Pvt Ltd.), where he worked for 2 years in Vadodara, India.
Education and Expertise
Supal Patel holds a Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) in Information Technology from Sardar Patel University, where he studied from 1997 to 2001. His areas of expertise include designing and deploying high volume, geographically dispersed Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) infrastructures. He is skilled in continuous integration and Test Driven Development, and possesses deep knowledge of the Tridion content management system. Additionally, he specializes in enterprise application development using the Spring and Hibernate frameworks and has extensive experience with RESTful web services.