Meet the Team – Tejal Patel
By Emily Davidson
18 August 2023Join us for a series of informal chats with Celerity Staff from all areas of our business! This week, get to know our Cloud Analyst, Tejal Patel.
What is your current role at Celerity?
Cloud Analyst
What were you doing before you joined Celerity?
Studying my undergraduate degree of Computer Networks and Cyber Security at Northumbria University.
What is one of the accomplishments from your time at Celerity that you are most proud of?
Passing my AWS exams within the first 6 months of starting Celerity.
What do you think is your biggest strength?
Not being afraid of failure!
What’s your favourite memory from your time with Celerity?
The social events from the 20th Anniversary of Celerity. It was so nice getting everyone up to Newcastle and celebrating at Above and Babuchos!
How would you describe your team at Celerity?
We’re collaborative and also encouraging of each other’s successes.
How has Celerity helped your professional development?
Through investing into both my soft and hard skills.
What’s the most interesting place in the world that you’ve been to?
It has to be when I visited Doha the week before the World Cup was hosted there.
If you could have any superpower, what would it be and why?
Being able to teleport so I could go wherever, whenever!
Do you have a party trick?
I’m both left and right handed!
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