Hiren Patel currently heads Product Management at Firebolt, where he's revolutionizing data-intensive analytics. With a passion for building high-efficiency, low-latency solutions, he empowers organizations to scale analytics faster and more cost-effectively while keeping data expenses under control. Before Firebolt, Hiren spent over 12 years at Microsoft optimizing Cosmos, an exabyte-scale distributed compute platform. His work on the SCOPE compiler, optimizer, and scheduler helped scale petabyte computations while driving down operational costs by 10% annually. Hiren is a University of Waterloo graduate and over his career has combined exceptional technical expertise in distributed systems with strategic product thinking.
