Pranav Patel
Technical Adoption Manager at VMware by Broadcom and Founder of Sher Systems. I lead VMware Cloud Foundation adoption — Kubernetes (VKS), private AI, AI agents — and I'm building Rhodes, "the AI brain for infrastructure": plain-language requests become plans, checks against live state, human-approved risky changes, execution, and drift watching.
Experience
VMware by Broadcom — Technical Adoption Manager
Leads VMware Cloud Foundation adoption; Kubernetes (VKS), private AI, AI agents.
Sher Systems — Founder
NVIDIA Inception applied-AI studio. Rhodes is "the AI brain for infrastructure": plain-language requests → plans, checks live state, routes risky changes past a human, executes, watches for drift.
Projects
- Rhodes — the AI brain for infrastructure (Sher Systems).
- Field Signal — writing at fieldsignal.tech.
- Supra AI — project.
- The Overlap — project.
- Eval Sentinel — project.
Education
Virginia Tech — B.S. Computer Science (Data-Centric Computing)
Minors: Cyber Systems and Economics.
Henrico High School
Certifications
- VCP-VCF
- VCAP-VCF 9.0 (VKS)
- VCP-DCV
- NVIDIA AI Infrastructure and Operations
Life
- NYC chapters: near the Empire State Building 2022–2023; FiDi 2023–2025, with roommates Shasank and Kanav (FIFA nights, music always on); now Glen Allen, VA.
- College: a two-floor townhouse on Pheasant Run Ct in Blacksburg with roommates Akshay Akula, Shrey and Devendra.
- Family: his family runs the Roseloe Motel in Hot Springs, Virginia (Bath County).
- Cars: Toyota 86 (previous); 1994 Mazda Miata NA (current rebuild + custom digital dash); Supra (planned).
- Coffee: black.
- Travel: Japan, China, Iceland, England, India.