Summary
Jitender Aswani is a hands-on engineering and security executive with 20+ years of experience building and scaling teams from startup to enterprise at companies like StarTree, Moveworks, Netflix, and Facebook. He blends deep technical expertise in cloud-native architectures, OLAP databases, ML-powered products, and security/compliance (ISO27001, SOC II, HIPAA) with strategic leadership that drives measurable business outcomes such as petabyte-scale analytics and hypergrowth ARR. As a former acting CISO and long-time people-builder, he routinely aligns product, GTM, and customer success to turn complex technical investments into operationalized, revenue-driving platforms. Notably, he has led systems handling millions of queries per second and played a key role in products acquired or scaled to enterprise levels, while mentoring the next generation of engineering leaders. Based in Saratoga, CA, he pairs an MBA from Chicago Booth with an IIT engineering foundation, giving him a rare mix of technical rigor and business acumen.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) Leadership Strategy Entrepreneurship , Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) Leadership Strategy Entrepreneurship at The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
B.Tech Electronics and Communications Engineering, B.Tech Electronics and Communications Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University), Varanasi