Strategic Engineering Leader with 15+ years of experience architecting, scaling, and operating platform, cloud, and developer productivity ecosystems for high-growth and enterprise technology organizations. Currently leading Developer Foundations at Okta India Innovation Center, managing a 16-engineer organization spanning Senior Software Engineers, Staff Engineers, and Principal Engineers responsible for CI/CD platforms, automation frameworks, and AI-driven engineering analytics powering Okta's global software delivery lifecycle.
Leadership Scope: Site-level leadership with global ownership of Developer Productivity Engineering (DPE), data reporting, and multi-cloud financial governance, directly informing executive engineering strategy across AWS, GCP, and Azure.
Measurable Business Impact:
Career Highlights: Built foundational platforms for India's #1 local search engine (Justdial) enabling millions of users, established early cloud and SRE infrastructure at Swiggy during hyper-growth, and led global platform engineering at TriNet Zenefits spanning cloud infrastructure, databases, security, and developer productivity.
Technical Expertise: Multi-cloud architecture (AWS, GCP, Azure), DORA metrics optimization, automation frameworks, AI-driven productivity engineering, database systems at scale, zero-downtime migrations, and platform governance.
Leadership Philosophy: Business-aligned developer productivity, strong platform governance, and building high-performance engineering cultures. Specializes in leading senior technical talent, mentoring Staff and Principal Engineers, partnering with executive stakeholders, and scaling platforms that accelerate delivery while improving reliability, security, and cost efficiency.
Organization Building & Scaling: Built and scaled high-performing engineering teams across multiple high-growth organizations, from founding platform engineering practices to leading strategic direction for 130+ engineers. Track record of establishing teams from inception through organizational maturity across diverse environments including enterprise SaaS, hyper-growth startups, and global technology companies.
Platform Strategy & Governance: Architected and delivered enterprise-grade platform engineering practices spanning CI/CD automation, developer productivity tooling, multi-cloud infrastructure, database systems, and security governance. Established technical standards, operational frameworks, and platform governance models enabling 500+ engineers across distributed teams.
Financial & Operational Excellence: Managed $4.5M+ operational budgets with demonstrated ROI through cost optimization initiatives delivering $1M+ in cloud savings while maintaining stringent performance SLAs. Proven expertise in vendor management, capacity planning, strategic resource allocation, and infrastructure economics across AWS, GCP, and Azure.
Technical Leadership & Talent Development: Led 175+ engineers across career spanning Senior, Staff, and Principal Engineer levels. Established technical mentorship programs, career advancement frameworks, and engineering excellence cultures driving continuous innovation, knowledge sharing, and technical skill development across platform, infrastructure, and SRE domains.
Executive Partnership & Cross-functional Alignment: Partner with C-level executives and cross-functional stakeholders (Product, Security, SRE, Data, Finance) to align platform strategy with business objectives, drive organizational transformation initiatives, and inform executive engineering strategy for developer productivity, cloud cost governance, and platform modernization.
📧 Email: bajrang.panigrahi89@gmail.com