Nilay Patel is a Product Manager at Canonical – the publisher of Ubuntu. In that role, he covers Data Center services, which include Managed Kubernetes, OpenStack, and Applications.Prior to joining Canonical, Nilay was a strategy consultant and advised organizations in developing big-data pricing and supply chain models, as well as a visiting researcher at Microsoft Research’s IoT group. Nilay holds a Master’s in computer science from University College London, and a Bachelor’s from London School of Economics.In his spare time, Nilay likes to cook, in particular Italian food which has the advantages of being hard to get wrong and difficult to burn.