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vNinjaDFW | Ryan Patel

    About Me

    Hello! I’m Ryan Patel, a Principal Cloud Solutions Architect at NetApp, where I’m part of the team building NetApp’s Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) practice. I help customers run enterprise workloads and data on OCI, from VMware migrations to AI-ready data platforms, without re-architecting what already works.

    Before joining NetApp, I spent six years inside OCI on the Oracle Cloud VMware Solution (OCVS) team. While there, I helped co-develop and validate NetApp’s first-party storage service on OCI, so I now get to keep building on that work from NetApp’s side of the partnership.

    My career spans over 25 years of designing and delivering enterprise data center and hybrid-cloud architectures, starting with VMware in 2001. I’ve worked across pre-sales, solution architecture, and partner co-selling with global systems integrators, always focused on connecting deep technical design to real business outcomes.

    I’m honored to be recognized as a VMware vExpert and vExpert PRO, and I proudly serve as a VMUG Leader for the Dallas/Fort Worth region, bringing practitioners together to share knowledge and solve real-world problems.

    Areas of Expertise

    • NetApp Storage on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)
    • VMware Migrations to Oracle Cloud VMware Solution (OCVS)
    • Enterprise Data Infrastructure for AI Workloads
    • Hybrid-Cloud & Software-Defined Data Center Design
    • Pre-Sales Architecture & Technical Strategy
    • GSI & Partner Co-Sell Enablement
    • Community Leadership & Technical Advocacy

    I write here about cloud architecture, data infrastructure, VMware, OCI, and lessons learned along the way. Feel free to connect to talk strategy, swap ideas, or work through a tough design problem together.

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    Disclaimer

    Any views or opinions expressed here are strictly my own and not those of my employer (or any past employer). As this is a personal blog, not a corporate blog, I am solely responsible for all content published here. Content published here is not read, reviewed, or approved in advance by my employer and does not necessarily represent or reflect the views or opinions of my employer or any of its divisions, subsidiaries, or business partners.