Ankit Patel is a senior director at NVIDIA, leading developer engagement for NVIDIA’s many SDKs, APIs and developer tools. Ankit joined NVIDIA in 2011 as a GPU product manager and later transitioned to software product management for products in virtualization, ray tracing and AI. Prior to joining the company, he worked on products for video editing and live production, holding management positions at Matrox Video and Blackmagic Design. Ankit holds a bachelor's degree in computer science from Concordia University in Montreal, Canada, and an MBA from Cornell University.