Saro Subbiah

CTO

San Carlos, California, United States25 yrs 6 mos experience

AI ML PractitionerAI Enabled

Key Highlights

Proven track record in building high-performing engineering teams.
Expertise in designing scalable data platforms and analytics solutions.
Strong leadership in technology strategy and product development.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Cloud Computing expert with a focus on AI and Big Data solutions.

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Distributed SystemsBig DataScalabilityMachine LearningSoftware EngineeringSoftware DevelopmentStart-upsAgile MethodologiesCloud ComputingAlgorithmsHigh AvailabilityObject Oriented DesignStrategic PlanningProduct DevelopmentAnalytics

About

• A strategic leader focused on outcomes with strong technical knowledge and hands-on skills • Built and managed several highly talented engineering & product teams • Designed and executed product roadmaps for complex product lines • Designed and developed a scalable In-Memory Data platform, and an AI-powered Analytics platform • Experience in building complex scalable multi-threaded distributed systems, key-value stores, distributed caching algorithms, storage layers, transaction engines, garbage collectors, replicated hot/standby systems, network management systems, etc. Specialties: Technology leadership, Attracting top talent & building highly efficient teams, Enterprise software, SaaS, AI, ML, NLP, Big Data, Fault-tolerant systems, Distributed systems, Cloud computing platforms

Experience

25 yrs 6 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 1 mo

Average Tenure

3 mos

Current Experience

Cyberhaven

Senior Vice President of Engineering

Feb 2026 – Present · 3 mos · San Francisco Bay Area · Hybrid

Unified Data Protection built on data lineage (Linea AI), protecting data everywhere it moves - from agents and endpoints to SaaS and cloud infrastructure.

Komodo health

Vice President, Engineering - Platform & Apps

May 2024 – Feb 2026 · 1 yr 9 mos · San Francisco Bay Area · Hybrid

Built an Agentic Analyst and GenAI-powered workflows to accelerate insight discovery, combining petabytes of the industry's most comprehensive healthcare data with a purpose-built analytical platform to fulfill our core mission: reducing the burden of disease.

Various companies

Advisor / Mentor / Investor

Jan 2023 – Present · 3 yrs 4 mos

Focused on AI, DevOps tooling, SaaS / Cloud / Data platforms, Cloud Security, Observability

Sysdig

Vice President of Engineering and Technology

Apr 2020 – Aug 2023 · 3 yrs 4 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Sysdig's Cloud Security and Observability platform enables enterprises to operate reliably and securely at scale in containerized and cloud-native environments.

Quid

2 roles

Chief Technology Officer

Oct 2016 – Jan 2020 · 3 yrs 3 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

I led Quid's Product Strategy and Technology team (Product, Engineering, Data Science, and Design) to build innovative products in the BI/analytics space using NLP & ML. Netbase acquired Quid in Jan 2020.

Vice President of Engineering

Sep 2015 – Sep 2016 · 1 yr · San Francisco Bay Area

Quid captures the world's collective intelligence in the form of streams of unstructured data and applies advanced NLP & ML algorithms to extract the semantics, sentiments, topics, entities, and relationships to gain insights using compelling visualization.

Quad analytix

Technical Advisor

Aug 2014 – Jan 2015 · 5 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Building a real time analytics SaaS platform for delivering insights on a large dataset of product, pricing, promotion, and placement data.

Terracotta, software ag

Head of Engineering, BigMemory Group

Jul 2011 – Apr 2014 · 2 yrs 9 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

As Head of Engineering for the Terracotta BigMemory group at Software AG, I led a talented team of local & distributed engineers working on innovative products in the Big Data space.

Terracotta

2 roles

Director, Platform Engineering

Promoted

Jul 2010 – Jun 2011 · 11 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Led the team responsible for building the scale out platform that Terracotta BigMemory and Enterprise Ehcache products are built on. Terracotta got acquired by Software AG.