Anand Patel

Technology Transformation Leader. Engineering Leadership · Digital Transformation · Change Management. Driving outcome-focused change across engineering and architecture.

Atlanta, GA · Remote · Open to Hybrid Contact me
Anand Patel

Executive Profile

Purpose-driven engineering leader with a progressive history of driving transformational and outcome-focused change and articulating strategic direction across software engineering and architecture leadership roles spanning multiple industries. Sets architectural direction, pressure-tests the technical decisions that carry it, and holds engineering teams to a high standard of design and delivery. Highly focused on the seamless delivery of culture shifts, challenging assumptions around structure, growth, and product development. Possessing an elevated aptitude for business process mapping, organizational change management, and strategic planning, aligning multi-disciplinary stakeholders and diverging ideas toward measurable and shared outcomes. Actively invests in hands-on AI/ML research that spans local LLM fine-tuning and agent orchestration, keeping technical judgment sharp as the field evolves.

Professional Experience

Emerson / Copeland emerson.comcopeland.com
Kennesaw, GA
08/2020 – Present Remote
Software Engineering Manager

World leader in sustainable climate solutions, reducing carbon emissions across commercial, industrial and residential markets. Retained through the April 2023 divestiture that established Copeland as a standalone company, continuing to lead a distributed team of engineers and product developers.

  • Lead a team of 10 engineers across two distinct product lines, adapting architecture, process, and roadmap to the demands of each.
  • Advocate for priority projects to meet key strategic goals and product development targets.
  • Partner with the leadership team to build and refine look-ahead IT roadmaps.
  • Establish project frameworks by designing deliverables schedules and milestones, aligning operations with organizational user stories and cases.
  • Assess and manage technical project delivery, conducting detailed code reviews and verifying application of architecture best practices.
  • Deploy Quality Assurance standards to identify opportunities for improvement and system upgrades.
  • Established the framework of collaborative prioritization planning, coaching project teams to define key targets and deliverables.
  • Structure and evaluate relationships with 3rd-party vendors and ensure robust SLA compliance.
  • Measure the functionality and effectiveness of existing processes and platforms as part of ongoing continuous improvement efforts.
Clinical Softworks clinicalsoftworks.com
Marietta, GA
05/2016 – 05/2020 In-Office → Remote
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer

Co-founded developer and provider of a portfolio of mobile and web solutions, allowing medical providers to elevate the overall patient continuum of care. Continue to retain majority ownership of the company and serve on its Board of Directors.

  • Set the company's technology vision and multi-year roadmap, translating clinical and market needs into architecture and product strategy.
  • Defined build-vs-buy and platform decisions, selecting the core stack and cloud strategy that scaled the product across health systems.
  • Architected a HIPAA-compliant, cloud-native platform on GCP (Healthcare APIx, Cloud Life Sciences) for secure ingestion and processing of protected health information.
  • Established the system architecture and data model underpinning the mobile and web solutions used across the patient continuum of care.
  • Drove interoperability with EHR and clinical systems (HL7/FHIR) to integrate directly into provider workflows.
  • Owned security, privacy, and regulatory compliance (HIPAA/PHI), instituting controls, audit readiness, and data-governance practices across the platform.
  • Built and led an 18-person engineering organization (UX/UI, software, systems, QA), owning hiring, team structure, and the Agile operating model.
  • Built the data pipeline that normalized datasets from the NIH, WHO, and national registries into a unified model, accelerating identification of available clinical trials.
United States Advanced Networks usan.com
Norcross, GA
04/2006 – 05/2020 In-Office → Remote
Senior Software Engineer

Global leader in the development and commercialization of telecommunication and call center technologies for Fortune 100 companies.

  • Led a team of 12 engineers, product managers, technical writers, and QA testers.
  • Innovated a large-scale Omni-Channel Web App using C#/.NET and JavaScript/NodeJS Docker containers: .NET Core, Sencha ExtJS, GoJS, Bootstrap, NodeJS, jQuery, and VueJS.
  • Created customer engagement demos for key stakeholders and customers showcasing product offerings.
  • Responded to and met market needs by creating and updating application features.
  • Implemented Docker containers for a C#/.NET Core Omni-channel platform, including YAML definition files that simplified testing and deployment.
  • Designed application components using a test-driven development approach to greatly reduce bugs in new or updated code.
  • Developed and maintained SQL Server and MySQL upgrade and migration scripts for automated software upgrades.
  • Built multi-container web applications through Docker and AWS ECS with automated deployment pipelines.
  • Implemented an integrated C# AWS Pinpoint service for high-volume two-way SMS and email communication.

Education

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
The University of Georgia · Athens, GA
2001 – 2005

Leadership Skill Sets

Strategy & Business
Technology StrategyDigital TransformationProduct RoadmappingGo-to-MarketP&L OwnershipExecutive & Board Engagement
Organization & Talent
Engineering Org DesignHiring & Team BuildingMentorship & CoachingAgile Operating ModelsCulture & Change Management
Delivery & Governance
Program ManagementSDLC GovernanceContinuous ImprovementVendor & SLA ManagementRisk & ComplianceStakeholder Alignment

Technical Skill Sets

AI & Machine Learning
Independent R&D across LLM fine-tuning, local inference, and agent-harness development, staying current as the field moves.
Explore the AI lab
LLM Fine-Tuning (LoRA / QLoRA)Local Inference (vLLM · Ollama · llama.cpp)Agent Frameworks & HarnessesRAG PipelinesPyTorchHugging Face / TransformersModel Training & EvaluationQuantizationPrompt EngineeringMulti-GPU Training
Languages & Frameworks
C#.NET / .NET CoreASP.NET CorePythonJavaScriptSQLNode.js
Cloud & Containers
AWSAzureGCP (Healthcare APIs)DockerKubernetes
Data & Streaming
SQL Server / MySQLPostgreSQLSnowflakeMongoDBRedisKafkaElasticsearch
DevOps & IaC
TerraformCI/CD PipelinesAzure DevOpsGitHub ActionsJenkinsSonarQube
Observability & Monitoring
DatadogGrafanaPrometheusSplunkELK / Kibana
IoT & Edge
IoTMQTTAWS IoT CoreAzure IoT HubEdge ComputingDigital Twins