Summary
Pankaj Channe is a Lead Member of Technical Staff with 12 years of experience building distributed systems, service-oriented architectures, and identity/access management for cloud platforms. Currently at Salesforce after leading Platform Identity for Splunk Enterprise Cloud, he combines deep hands-on engineering with platform-level thinking to secure and scale multi-tenant cloud services. His background spans building datastore and big data services on Kubernetes and OpenStack at Rackspace, plus early SOA and integration work in enterprise Java, giving him a rare blend of cloud-native and middleware expertise. Based in Seattle, he pairs a Master's in Computer Science from Indiana University with a pragmatic focus on reliable, production-grade identity systems and operability. An understated strength is his continuity across the full lifecycle—from APIs that provision clusters to the identity plumbing that secures them—making him effective at bridging infra, security, and developer experience.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Indiana University Bloomington
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at University of Mumbai