Sanjay Kshetramade is a seasoned engineering leader and founder based in the San Francisco Bay Area with a multi-decade track record of building scalable, production-grade systems across search, advertising, and graph databases. He has led large teams and product launches at LinkedIn and Yahoo!, driving core services for Search, Recommendations, Ads and Social Selling, and later scaled a SaaS offering for a graph database as Head of Engineering at Dgraph Labs. Now a Co-Founder at Optifia AI, he is applying that product and platform experience to sales AI for account executives, blending deep systems engineering with go-to-market sensibilities. His background spans research-driven ad optimization, real-time ad exchange platforms and high-throughput consumer services—skills that make him comfortable from low-latency backend systems to ML-driven personalization. Notably, he has repeatedly led technical due diligence and integrations for acquisitions, evidencing a rare mix of M&A, product, and execution experience. Trained at IIT Bombay and Philips International Institute, he pairs rigorous academic foundations with pragmatic leadership in fast-moving engineering organizations.
3 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
M.E.E, Electronics Engineering, M.E.E, Electronics Engineering at Philips International Institute, Holland
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