Surojit Pathak is a seasoned engineering leader with 15+ years building and scaling cloud and networking organizations, now serving as Senior Director for Google Distributed Cloud in Sunnyvale. He has repeatedly built high-performing teams from seed to hundreds of engineers, driven product portfolios that reached $1B+ ARR, and led global turnarounds that improved availability, efficiency, and revenue growth. His hands-on background spans packet-forwarding datapaths, smartNIC software, load balancers, WAFs and cloud networking automation and observability at hyperscale. A contributor to OpenStack Magnum and early cloud infrastructure efforts, he blends deep systems engineering with organizational strategy and an emphasis on empathetic leadership. His uncommon strength is translating low-level network and dataplane expertise into product-led, measurable business outcomes across multi-geography operations.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Executive Education Business Strategy, Executive Education Business Strategy at Columbia Business School
B.E. Computer Science, B.E. Computer Science at National Institute of Technology Durgapur
+2 Science, +2 Science at Ramakrishna Mission Residential College, Narendrapur
Container Infrastructure Management Service for OpenStack. Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:18 commits in 10 months
Contributions summary:Surojit primarily contributed to the backend functionality of the OpenStack Magnum project. Their work includes implementing and updating code for container infrastructure management, specifically focusing on features related to bay creation and service management, and security for kubernetes api calls. The user also made documentation updates. The commits demonstrate the user's involvement in bug fixes, code refactoring, and adding new features to the codebase. They also touched the TLS integration for the kubernetes client.
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
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Surojit Pathak - Senior Director, Google Distributed Cloud