Snehal Patel is an Associate Fellow / Sr. Director at Walmart Global Tech.

Snehal Patel was a global network architect at Gap Inc. and had over 10 years of experience in the Networking industry. He was SD-WAN subject matter expert and led the architecture, design, roadmaps and strategy of Gap Inc.’s global network across Cloud, 3000+ Stores, Backbone, Data Center, Campuses, Distribution Centers and Tools. Snehal played a key role in all the network related POCs at Gap Inc. and was constantly on the lookout for new technologies to improve the network architecture, performance, scalability and visibility.

Prior to joining Gap Inc., Snehal was a Network Operations Engineer at Yahoo Inc. for about three years.

Snehal holds a Master of Science degree in Computer Engineering from San Jose State University with a specialization in Network Systems. He regularly attends and presents at conferences and writes blogs at www.prosdn.com.