Summary
Chandan Kumar is a seasoned software engineering leader with 13 years of experience building and scaling product teams across startups and enterprises, now serving as Director of Software Engineering at Salesforce. He has led engineering organizations end-to-end—from hands-on development at ThoughtWorks and Pramati to executive roles as VP of Engineering at Momentum.io and Director of Engineering at Connect and Heal—focusing on product delivery, operational excellence, and team growth. Based in Hyderabad, he blends deep technical roots with strategic leadership, routinely hiring and mentoring distributed teams to ship high-quality solutions. Notably, he transitioned quickly from startup-stage leadership to a major cloud software role, reflecting an ability to scale processes and systems as organizations grow.
13 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
PGSSP, Computer Science, PGSSP, Computer Science at International Institute of Information Technology