Smruti Patel leads the Data Platform engineering organization at Stripe. Her group builds Stripe's user-facing Search API, and hosts the underlying data warehousing, the BigData, asynchronous & stream processing infrastructure for Stripe’s mission-critical business, while ensuring data security, reliability and cost-efficiency.

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 travelling.