Srikanta Datta

Director of Engineering

San Francisco, California, United States15 yrs 1 mo experience
Highly StableAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

  • Innovator with 10+ patents.
  • Expert in AI Infrastructure and Cybersecurity.
  • Leader in building scalable distributed systems.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cloud Computing and SaaS expert with a focus on AI and Infrastructure.

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Skills

Core Skills

Artificial Intelligence (ai)InfrastructureCloud ComputingDistributed SystemsSoftware DevelopmentSystems Architecture

Other Skills

Algorithm DesignAlgorithm OptimizationAndroidAnsibleApache ZooKeeperAsyncBashBusiness AnalysisC++CSSCascading Style Sheets (CSS)Cloud Computing IaaSCloud Native SolutionsData StructuresDocker

About

Software Engineer and Engineering Leader. Innovator with 10+ patents. AI Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, Platforms, Distributed Systems and Public Cloud Infrastructure.

Experience

Coupang

2 roles

Director, AI Infra

Promoted

Apr 2025Present · 11 mos

  • Founding Engineer and Director, building GPU Public Cloud - CIC.
  • Working with an awesome global engineering team spread across - USA, Seoul, Bangalore & Shanghai.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Infrastructure

Senior Staff Software Engineer

Oct 2023Apr 2025 · 1 yr 6 mos

Distributed SystemsCloud ComputingArtificial Intelligence (AI)InfrastructureKubernetesSoftware Infrastructure

Cisco

Senior Technical Leader | Architect

Apr 2018Oct 2023 · 5 yrs 6 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Currently at Webex SaaS Platforms.
  • Prior Role - Cisco DNAC
  • Worked on building Platform for DNAC Appliance.
  • Lead the teams, which owns and delivers 15+ PaaS capabilities for a K8s native Platform for DNAC Appliance.
  • Areas include:
  • 1) Observability(Metrics, Logs, Events)
  • 2) Managed Services(Persistence - MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Postgres, Message Brokers - Kafka, RabbitMQ, Caches - Redis)
  • 3) Polyglot API libraries to consume managed services.
  • 4) Developed methods and frameworks for software delivery in a hub and spoke model. Delivering and deploying software upgrades w/ hooks, to on-premise appliances across the world from a centralized hub.
  • The DNAC Platform is used by a thousand-plus developers community, deployed across XX thousand enterprises. Focuses on constant Value Add and enhancing Customer Experience release over the release.
  • End-End Ownership: Defining, Implementing, and Delivering new PaaS capabilities, Software Architecture, Software Development, Release Management, Team Management, Scrum Management, Support, Partnerships across teams, and Process Enhancements.
  • Cisco DNA Center (Digital Network Architecture Center): PaaS, Observability, Managed Services, Several cutting edge Distributed Systems, Polyglot Microservices, Workflows, Business and Operational Telemetry.

Symphony.com

Systems Architecture Engineer - IV, Systems and Performance

Nov 2016Apr 2018 · 1 yr 5 mos · Palo Alto, California

  • I worked with the Systems Architecture team at Symphony( A Series-B startup backed by Google and consortium of financial companies ), focusing on next-generation Systems architecture and a few strategic projects.
  • Lead initiatives on Microservices Architecture: helped internal teams develop, deploy, manage, multi tenant and single tenant microservices.
  • Developing v2.0 of Secure Cloud Native Communication and Collaboration Platform.
  • Strategic projects and initiatives in the area of Backend Architecture.
  • Multitenancy, Microservices(Containerization), Disaster Recovery and Cloud Native Solutions.
  • Reported to VP/CTO, learnt a lot. Worked with different functional teams and helped drive execution. :)

Oracle

Senior Member Of Technical Staff

Feb 2013Nov 2016 · 3 yrs 9 mos · Redwood City, California

  • Whatever it takes to make Exalogic Elastic cloud better, I focus on exploring for the betterment system. Our team deals with a mix of R&D and development projects. I have been fortunate to work with an amazing manager and teammates.
  • Areas of work:
  • Object storage service for Oracle Cloud PaaS, IaaS machine - Swift (Software Defined Storage based).
  • OpenStack Architecture & Development v1.0 for Oracle Cloud PaaS, IaaS machine
  • Development of Python clients for several Infrastructure as a Service(IaaS) services, backend adapters for OpenStack services, RESTful services, Command line interfaces and utility tools.
  • Implementation of Load balancing, scale out of a storage cluster, monitoring etc.
  • Oracle Private Cloud Machine(OPCM) PaaS, IaaS - Cloud Computing Architecture and Development, Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud
  • Developed Key Proof of Concepts(PoC) / Architectural prototypes - Which are Incorporated to the future versions of Exalogic product
  • Tech Conferences & Demos representing the team:
  • 1) Oracle Openworld Conferences - 2014, 2015, 2016.
  • 2) College recruiting - 2014, 2015
  • 3) Representing team in Openstack Summits
  • Positions-
  • Senior Member of Technical Staff - Senior Software Engineer - level 3 (May 2015 - Present)
  • Member of Technical Staff - Software Engineer - level 2 (Feb 2013 - May 2015)

Sewickley public library

Search Engine Developer

May 2012Dec 2012 · 7 mos · Greater Pittsburgh Area

  • Apache SOLR and Leucene. Worked on "Relevancy Boosting" and "Tagging" features.

Coding for zintin

Android, iOS App developer

May 2012Jun 2012 · 1 mo · Greater Pittsburgh Area

  • 1) Developing an android version of the Scribble app from scratch.
  • 2) Upgrading the existing iOS version with new features.
  • Worked on this with 20% of my months time. Thanks John and Ben for tasking me with this,
  • The initial version of iOS scribble was done by John Jersin, Stanford Alum in a day. It has about 3million downloads in the iOS app market.

Sap labs

Software Engineer

Jan 2010Jan 2011 · 1 yr

Tata consultancy services

Assistant Systems Engineer

Jan 2009Jan 2010 · 1 yr

Education

Carnegie Mellon University

Master of Science - MS — Information Technology

Jan 2011Jan 2012

Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur

Masters Degree

Jan 2023Dec 2024

HEC Paris

Executive Masters Degree — Entrepreneurship and Business Management

Jan 2020Dec 2021

Visvesvaraya Technological University

Bachelor of Engineering - BE — Information Science & Engineeering

Jan 2005Jan 2009

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