Nikhil Aggarwal

CTO

Seattle, Washington, United States18 yrs 5 mos experience

AI ML PractitionerAI Enabled

Key Highlights

Over 15 years of product design and delivery experience.
Expert in leading remote teams across the globe.
Passionate about scalable architecture and developer experiences.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS architect specializing in integration, automation, and AI-driven solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

ArchitectsIntegration And AutomationNatural Language UnderstandingPower PlatformMicroservicesCloud Engineering

Other Skills

AICloudJSONBig DataComputer ScienceHands-on TechnicalCoding ExperienceNetworkingInfrastructure as a Service (IaaS)Technical LeadershipFault ToleranceCapacity ManagementLeadership DevelopmentArtificial Intelligence (AI)Large Scale Distributed Systems

About

Hands-on leader with a track record of incubating, organizing and leading large teams to successfully deliver large scale products. Passionate about leading and growing high performing teams, and coaching diverse talent to take products from inception to shipment. - Bring together clarity of vision, agility and the ability to make tough calls. - Deep expertise across various domains, technologies and business segments. - Track record of designing & shipping products for over 15 years. - Led delivery on tight timelines, leading remote teams spread across the globe. - Extensive experience in incubating new ideas and delivering them to the market. - Presented at various technical conferences and events to highlight features and drive adoption.

Experience

18 yrs 5 mos

Total Experience

5 yrs 6 mos

Average Tenure

1 yr 10 mos

Current Experience

Salesforce

2 roles

Distinguished Engineer

Promoted

Feb 2026 – Present · 2 mos · Bellevue, WA · On-site

Leading architecture for Integration and Automation clouds at Salesforce. Building the foundational platforms behind Salesforce's journey in the Agentic Enterprise world, where intelligent agents can reason, act, and collaborate across every business workflow. By unifying Data, AI, CRM, and Automation across any system, we're enabling enterprises to move from insights to actions at unprecedented speed.
Passionate about scalable architecture, intuitive developer experiences, and unlocking real-world business value through technology? Let's connect. We're not just building systems - we're building the connective tissue of the AI-first enterprise.

ArchitectsIntegration and AutomationAICloud

Principal Architect

Jun 2024 – Feb 2026 · 1 yr 8 mos · Bellevue, WA · On-site

Lead architect for MuleSoft, Heroku and Salesforce Flow - the Integration and Automation pillars of Salesforce. These platforms form the core of how Salesforce empowers businesses to move faster, operate smarter, and deliver seamless experiences in the age of Data + AI + CRM.

Architects

Microsoft

2 roles

Principal Group Engineering Manager (Power Platform)

Nov 2017 – Jun 2024 · 6 yrs 7 mos · Greater Seattle Area

Microsoft Dataverse | Power Platform | Microsoft D365
Led the Core Storage Platform and Infrastructure organization for Dynamics 365 and Power Platform. Responsible for advancing the storage infrastructure and backbone for Microsoft Dataverse through Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, Data Lake, Blob and Elastic Search technologies.
Incepted and led Power Virtual Agent (Microsoft Copilot Studio) through public General Availability (GA).

Natural Language UnderstandingJSONPower Platform

Principal Engineering Manager (Office 365)

Sep 2008 – Nov 2017 · 9 yrs 2 mos · Greater Seattle Area

Led M365 Enterprise and Cloud Engineering organization to enable Office 365 for Fortune 500 enterprises and government organizations. Over the years, founded and grew multiple teams which were responsible for:
Envisioning and development of Office 365 CMK/BYOK (Data Encryption using Customer Managed Keys) capabilities.
Development of Office 365 multi-geo hybrid cloud, including data onboarding, movement, load balancing and capacity projection systems.
Development of modern public folders stack, which allowed organization wide single folder hierarchy and had scale-out architecture through multi-master replication via SMTP.
Development of DRM integration and secure email for hybrid cloud scenarios for Exchange server.

JSONMicroservicesCloud Engineering

Yahoo!

Software Development Engineer

Jan 2008 – Aug 2008 · 7 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Member of the applied science team that developed Yahoo’s state of the art contextual advertising technology, first launched in the US in April 2008. A key differentiator of this system is the ad selection technology that delivers relevant ads based on all user contexts, including page content, user attributes and information about the publisher site.

MicroservicesBig Data