Nirmala Sistla

CTO

Seattle, WA, United States27 yrs 11 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in building scalable enterprise data platforms.
Proven track record in digital transformation and AI efficiency.
Strong leadership in managing multi-regional engineering teams.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and SaaS expert with a focus on data-driven solutions.

Contact

nirmala.sistla@mastercard.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Data And AnalyticsEngineering ManagementData PublishingData Strategy

Other Skills

Amazon Web Services (AWS)Big DataBlockchainBusiness Process AutomationCloud ComputingCryptoData PipelinesData architectureData deliveryData governanceData lakeData modernizationData transformationDecentralized Applications (DApps)Distributed Systems

About

Seasoned product and technical executive with strong track record of building and leading large multi-regional organizations to deliver innovative products & business-critical services to delight customers. Passionate about hiring and developing leaders, identifying and solving strategic problems, developing high-quality and high-impact solutions using data & insights. Hands-on leader with strengths in building scalable enterprise data platforms that empowers customers to make data-driven decisions using products with delightful user experience. Experience in Data and Product strategy, User experience, Developer productivity, AI, Engineering management, Operations and Execution. Specialties: Digital transformation, AI Efficiency, Enterprise data platforms, metadata management, governance, distributed systems, open data, linked data, lake house, Web 3.0 Dapps, blockchain technology, smart contracts, machine learning, graph and big data technologies.

Experience

Mastercard

Executive Vice President - Head of Engineering for Data and Analytics Platforms

Sep 2025 – Present · 6 mos · Seattle, Washington, United States · Hybrid

Head of engineering for Mastercard's Data and Analytics organization. I'm responsible for managing data publishing, transformation, distribution, orchestration, governance, consumption, data products, and architecture.

Data publishingData transformationData governanceData architectureData and AnalyticsEngineering Management

Jpmorgan chase & co.

Managing Director, Head of Data & Analytics Platforms

Sep 2022 – Sep 2025 · 3 yrs · Seattle, Washington, United States · On-site

As the Head of Data Publishing products, I'm responsible for leading the publishing of high-quality modernized data to Data Lake on the cloud. I'm also responsible for ensuring the Data lake strategy is interoperable and highly scalable to deal with the complexity of our data ecosystem.

Data lakeData modernizationLakehouseOpen DataData PipelinesLinked Data+3

Coinbase

Director Of Engineering

Dec 2021 – Jul 2022 · 7 mos · Remote

I lead the engineering organization that manages the creation, onboarding, and management of crypto assets for Coinbase using Web 3.0.

Amazon

Head of Engineering & Design, Tax Technology

Nov 2014 – Dec 2021 · 7 yrs 1 mo · Greater Seattle Area

I lead very talented, passionate, and diverse teams in engineering, science, QA and UX building technology solutions to provide a world-class experience for Tax customers across the globe. We have teams in Seattle, Dallas, Santa Clara, Costa Rica and India.

Goldman sachs

3 roles

Senior Software Engineering Manager

Promoted

Mar 2011 – Nov 2014 · 3 yrs 8 mos

Global Manager Corporate Tax Technology
Managed development and delivery of automated K1 generation solution, Tax compliance manager, Tax data and reporting warehouse and Document management system integrated with IBMs platform.
Automated solutions for image data recognition from images/pdf, generation and processing of tax documents.
Managed global teams in New York, India and Brazil.

Vice President

Promoted

Jun 2005 – Feb 2011 · 5 yrs 8 mos

Project Manager Product & Pricing Technology
Managed multiple Tier-1 systems for Products and Pricing organization. This includes 1) Reference data platform that manages data ingestion of real time data from various 3P market data providers like Bloomberg and Reuters, 2) Pricing platform that manages FX and Spot rates used by traders, 3) Managed distributed data platform that replicated data to 200+ downsteram systems globally including trading data platform.