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Nishant Patel is Founder & CTO at Contentstack– a leading Content Management System and Content Experience Platform. Previously, Nishant was Founder, CEO and CTO of Digital Experience Platform Built.io, which was acquired by German software powerhouse Software AG in September 2018. Nishant is a technology visionary with an extensive track record of spotting and setting industry trends and creating software products that power digital transformation and further the rise of the API economy. Under his leadership as Founder and CTO at Raw Engineering, Nishant ran an R&D incubator to pioneer new category-forming products like Raw Engineering's MBaaS, Built.io iPaaS and Contentstack (Headless CMS), which all became industry leaders in Enterprise SaaS. With 20+ years of experience solving complex technology problems, Nishant has become a respected and trusted technology advisor to many Fortune 500 companies. Nishant holds a B.S. in Computer Science from The Ohio State University.