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At heart, I am a hands-on builder and engineering practitioner.

I enjoy driving innovation, engineering excellence, and designing scalable products that users adore.

Working on a most complex engineering problems gives me immense satisfaction; especially in space of fundamentals (availability, reliability, performance, and scalability), developer velocity (CD/CI, modern canary, and real user telemetry-based testing) and designing fault-tolerant, highly-available and low-latency control plane architectures.

I am a situational servant leader who is always curious, learning from everyone, and executing!

Over the last 20 years, I have served 2K+ engineering team while directly formed and led teams of various sizes (from 1 to 200+) and shapes, including product and engineering teams, engineering-only teams, forward-deployed customer engineering teams, and small but mighty groups of 8–10 delivering marvels.

My actions are centered on collaboration, user empathy, rapid iteration, consistency, continuous growth, ownership, and inclusive culture.

Planning and Execution over Guesswork: Provide clarity, spark energy, and drive successful outcomes.

• Strategic Foresight: Owning the outcome; Tackling complex challenges with vision.
• Product Innovation: Delivering multipliers and impactful solutions that end-users care about.
• Executive Leadership: Driving alignment and business success. We succeed together.

Execution over theory: Lead by example, coach for development, and care for team’s well-being.

I am a natural leader who:

• Shapes the vision.
• Inspires leaders and connects with members.
• Picks up the baton to drive progress.
• Ensures teams stay aligned, focused, and results-driven.

• 0-1 | Startup Perspective (10-250 members) - BuildKit, WebCare360, Saint Peter's, HackerEarth:
  • Wearing multiple hats
  • I also recognize the high-stakes nature of hypergrowth in small and medium-sized organization, where rapid acceleration can unlock extraordinary success or critical challenges.
• 1-N | Medium to Large Organization (2K-7K-90K members) - Splunk, Cisco:
  • I believe that sustained growth can lead to transformative, long-lasting impact.
  • Scaling M&A, protecting novel innovation

• 🔭 I’m currently reflecting on the life and musing around responsible AI, post-AI era, and societal impact.
• 🌱 Grooming next generation of leaders and problem solvers!; I just read the book called Product Management's Sacred Seven.
• 💬 Ask me about AI ML Ops, jungle gym career, coaching, photography, hiking, origami yoda, and/or food alchemy.
• 📫 How to reach me: 🌐 https://www.linkedin.com/in/maytheforce/ | 📧 mayur {a t} pipaliya {d o t} com
• ⚡ Fun fact: As an ESL, English was in 'beta testing' until university. Switching from all my high school exams in Gujarati to English felt like upgrading from a rotary dial phone to a smartphone overnight, with all the awkward mistakes and head-scratching moments that implies!
• $ aptitude moo