About Me

Unal Patel is a rising star at Cisco with more than a decade of experience. He has been recognized for individual and team awards such as Customer Service Excellence and Meeting and Exceeding Customer Expectations on multiple occasions, and he has also been asked to attend client-facing meetings as a subject matter expert.

Prior to joining Cisco, he co-founded, grew, and sold a small startup focused on developing apps for nonprofit organizations with three friends. NextApp Nonpro created software that allows nonprofit organizations to collect feedback and donations from subscribers.

He worked as an intern for a digital marketing firm before launching NextApp Nonpro. He was chosen from among more than 100 candidates to handle website programming tasks that required Java, C++, C, Sharepoint, and HTML. In this paid position, I worked 20 to 25 hours per week while maintaining a GPA of 3.7.