Smruti Patel is an Engineering Manager at Stripe, where she leads the Latency, Efficiency & Performance (LEAP) engineering and the Big Data platform organizations. For LEAP, she drives broad cross-organizational strategy and execution to reduce end-to-end API latency, optimize cloud costs and to tune system performance. And the Big Data platform hosts the underlying batch processing infrastructure to support Stripe's mission-critical business workflows.

Prior to that, she led multiple teams at VMware, including backups and disaster recovery.

Her interests include mentoring and coaching, hiking with her boys, and traveling.