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10 CVS Health engineering leaders
These ten people hold or have held engineering leadership roles at CVS Health and Aetna, a CVS Health Company, including executive directors of software engineering and lead directors of engineering for point of sale and retail pharmacy systems. A reader can learn how engineering leaders build and run their teams at CVS Health.
Professionals to explore
01—10Asmita Patwardhan
LinkedInExperience: Executive Director, Software Engineering · CVS Health
Executive Director, Software Engineering at CVS Health since December 2025, listed at Director level in the Engineering and Technical department according to the profile. Former Senior Director Of Engineering, Marketing Technology (2022–2025), former Senior Director, Global Architecture, Data & Analytics (2017–2022) and former Engineering Director, Consumer Digital Technology (2011–2016) at Nike.
Kavish Juneja
LinkedInExperience: Executive Director, Software Development Engineering · CVS Health
Executive Director, Software Development Engineering at CVS Health since July 2025; the profile headline reads Executive Director of Engineering at CVS Health, and the profile mentions developing engineering solutions for Pharmacy. Former Lead Director, Digital Engineering (2024–2025) and former Lead Digital Architect (2021–2024) at CVS Health.
Lee Costello
LinkedInExperience: Executive Director, Software Development Engineering · CVS Health
Executive Director, Software Development Engineering at CVS Health since January 2025, listed at Director level in the Engineering and Technical department according to the profile. Former VP, Technology at RubiconMD (2024–2025), where the profile says Lee Costello directed a 35+ person organization spanning engineering and DevOps, and former VP, Engineering at RubiconMD (2022–2024).
Michael Szesko
LinkedInExperience: Executive Director Engineering Strategy · CVS Health
Executive Director Engineering Strategy at CVS Health since September 2020, listed at Director level in the Engineering and Technical department according to the profile. Former Vice President of Operations - Operations Planning and Process Improvement at Walgreens (2015–2020) and former Vice President of Automation at Omnicare, a CVS Health company (2004–2013).
Mohita Ahuja
LinkedInExperience: Lead Director , Software Development Engineering for Point of Sale Systems · CVS Health
Lead Director , Software Development Engineering for Point of Sale Systems at CVS Health since September 2022; the profile describes modernizing and optimizing Point of Sale systems across 55 systems and integrations for 8k CVS locations. Former Senior Manager Application (2020–2022) and former Senior Technical Program Manager (2014–2020) at CVS Health.
Prabhugee Gopinath
LinkedInExperience: Lead Director of Engineering, Retail Pharmacy Systems · CVS Health
Lead Director of Engineering, Retail Pharmacy Systems at CVS Health since November 2025, listed at Director level according to the profile. Former Director of Engineering (Sales and Customer Service) (2021–2025) and former Director of Engineering - Customer MDM, Customer Onboarding & ODS (2018–2021) at Staples.
Prashant Nerkar
LinkedInExperience: Executive Director, Software Engineering · CVS Health
Executive Director, Software Engineering at CVS Health since April 2026. Former Lead Director, Software Engineering at CVS Health (2023–2026), a role the profile ties to data engineering, SRE, AIOps, observability, monitoring and DevSecOps. Former Sr. Director, Software Engineering at Capital One (2020–2022) and former Vice President, Software Engineering & Machine Learning at WealthEngine (2018–2020).
Priyanka Mehra
LinkedInExperience: Director, Digital Engineering · CVS Health
Former Director, Digital Engineering at CVS Health (2021–2025) and Executive Director at CVS Health since September 2025; the profile headline describes that role as Executive Director, Software Dev Engineering at CVS Health for Price Value, Coupon, Merchandising and Call Centers. Former Senior Manager Application Development at CVS Health (2016–2021).
Satish Maram
LinkedInExperience: Executive Director - Software Engineering · CVS Health
Former Executive Director - Software Engineering at CVS Health (January 2024 to June 2026) and AVP, Software Development Engineering at CVS Health since May 2026, listed at President/Vice President level according to the profile. Former Global Head of IT - ECommerce and Customer Experience Platforms at GSK (2020–2024).
Supriya Bendre
LinkedInExperience: Executive Director, Software Engineering · Aetna, a CVS Health Company
Executive Director, Software Engineering at Aetna, a CVS Health Company since April 2025; the profile headline cites healthcare interoperability and digital transformation, and the profile describes providing leadership, technology strategy and oversight in the role. Former Lead Director, Software Engineering at Aetna, a CVS Health Company (2021–2025).
Choose the right perspective
Match the person's area to your question, since pharmacy, point of sale, digital and health plan engineering teams work on different systems and constraints. Check each role's dates and the person's other employers, since experience gained elsewhere may not reflect how CVS Health works today.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How does a large health and retail company split software engineering between pharmacy, store and health plan systems?
- 02What has worked and what has not when modernizing point of sale and pharmacy platforms across thousands of locations?
- 03How do engineering leaders meet healthcare regulatory and interoperability requirements without slowing delivery?
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