Jay Palat is an SEI alumni employee.

Jay Palat is a software engineer at the SEI Emerging Technology Center and leads engineering efforts for customers and research projects. Before coming to SEI, Palat ran his own consulting company, accelerating engineering teams with a mix of management, best practices, and product engineering. Palat was the Director of Engineering and Senior Director of Data Engineering at Rhiza (now Nielsen) and has successfully led teams to deliver products and services in retail, healthcare, finance, and analytics at companies ranging from IBM to Series A startups.