Smruti Patel leads the LEAP and Data Platform engineering organizations at Stripe. LEAP develops strategy and builds tools for cost optimization of our AWS cloud spend, and lowers Stripe's end-to-end latency through performance tuning. And the Data Platform teams host the underlying data warehousing, and the batch/stream processing infrastructure for Stripe’s mission-critical business, while ensuring security, reliability and 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 traveling.