Ashit Patel is a Senior Director Of Engineering at Salesforce at Salesforce. They possess expertise in software development, cloud computing, enterprise software, product management, saas and 27 more skills. Colleagues describe them as "I felt like revising this after almost a decade. While I have been fortunate to have good people managers in my career, I continue to draw from the wisdom that Ashit shared with me as my first manager right out of college. An amazing first people manager can have a disproportionate influence on your career trajectory and I am ever more grateful that my career started with reporting to Ashit. To this day, I share anecdotes about our discussions on various subjects with people around me. Our 1-on-1s would turn into walks around the office and he would teach in the easiest of ways. As someone who didn't have a CS background, I was trying to chase the latest trends in tech when i started and he would emphasize on learning the concepts first. At that time it was ruby on rails, in future it could be "diamond on wheels" he would illustrate. I would randomly ask him for advice on any topic, for example personal finances and he would help me understand a good framework of managing those and to this day I follow the framework and every time I look at my investments, a part of me says "Thank you, Ashit!". Thank you, Ashit! :)", "Ashit was appointed as Director for the Citrix Platform Engineering Authentication team, for which I am the architect, when it was founded in early 2014. Although authentication was then a relatively new area for Ashit, I found his capacity to grasp its intricacies, then ask perceptive questions and pose alternative approaches, invaluable in testing and clarifying our cross-group strategy and shaping the right development plan to address a backlog of technical issues and feature needs. I admire Ashit's blend of analytical skill, technical knowledge, business acuity, management sensibility, patience and personal humility. He always focused on ensuring our team did the right thing for Citrix, even when it was unglamorous and the need was not obvious to higher management. To this end, I relied heavily on him to help articulate those needs and the rationale for our plans to the business groups that we served. I therefore am delighted to recommend Ashit to any organization in need of a clear-thinking, "do what's right" leader with a strong grasp of business realities and the maturity to put others first and bring out their best qualities.", and "Ashit is a talented leader who can build world-class teams and get things done. He cares deeply about his team members and goes an extra mile to make sure they are successful. He is both pragmatic and a strategic thinker. I have worked with Ashit in a start-up as well as a large enterprise environment and can attest his management and technical skills are top-notch. Highly recommended."