10 Dell engineering leaders
Dell Technologies engineering at CTO level shows up three ways here: Sudhir Srinivasan as CTO of the Infrastructure Solutions Group, CTO titles for India, the UK and EMEA, and a Dell Fellow in the Office of the CTO. The rest are engineering VPs, senior directors and a chief architect on storage, servers, data protection and agentic AI; nine of the ten hold Dell roles. They suit vendors, partners and investors weighing how Dell picks and ships infrastructure and AI products.
Professionals to explore
Chris MacLellan
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director Hardware Engineering · Dell Technologies
Since 2021 Chris MacLellan has been Senior Director Hardware Engineering at Dell Technologies, leading server architecture and development aimed at AI infrastructure, ruggedized edge computing and telecom/5G markets, by Chris's own account. Previous Dell titles are Senior Director Software Engineering (2016-2021) and Senior Director, Business Operations for the Office of the CTO (2015-2016). Ask about server design choices for AI and edge workloads.
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Deepak Vokaliga
LinkedInExperience: Head of Engineering CTO Chief Architect · Dell Technologies
Head of Engineering CTO Chief Architect at Dell Technologies since August 2026, Deepak Vokaliga has also been Chief Architect, CTO for Primary Storage, Enterpise Advanced Block Storage, Cloud, AI, Cyber since 2025. Deepak writes of designing next-generation disaggregated storage platforms with AI storage fabrics. Former Dell titles include Director, Product and Engineering (2018-2025) and CPO, Enterprise Storage, Next Gen Storage Platforms (2023-2025), useful for storage architecture questions.
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Dilip Khandekar
LinkedInExperience: Former Sr. Director of Engineering · Dell Technologies
Dilip Khandekar was Sr. Director of Engineering at Dell Technologies (2022-2025), leading a global engineering team of 250+ building the Powerprotect Data Manager product and an agile transformation that moved a long release cycle to one release every quarter. Earlier Dell titles were Director of Engineering (2018-2022) and Sr. Software Development Manager (2015-2018). Dilip suits questions on release cadence and large data protection teams.
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Elliott Young
LinkedInExperience: Director, AI Forward Deployed Engineering, EMEA APAC · Dell
Elliott Young was Chief Technology Officer, EMEA at Dell Technologies (2023-2026) and Chief Technology Officer, UK (2018-2023), and has been Director, AI Forward Deployed Engineering, EMEA APAC at Dell since August 2026. As EMEA CTO, Elliott describes supporting CXOs in business and IT roles in using agentic AI. Ask Elliott about how Dell takes AI work from customer conversations into deployed engineering.
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Luke Woydziak
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director of Software Engineering, CTO · Dell Technologies
Luke Woydziak is Senior Director of Software Engineering, CTO at Dell Technologies (a title held since 2024, across two stints), after Director of Software Engineering, CTO (2016-2024). Luke describes leading an enterprise AI acceleration organization that identifies, designs and delivers agentic AI applications across Dell. That makes Luke the person to ask how Dell picks and ships internal agentic AI projects.
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Pierluca Chiodelli
LinkedInExperience: Vice President Engineering Technology · Dell Technologies
Pierluca Chiodelli has held Vice President Engineering Technology at Dell Technologies since 2020, leading the solution team for the ISG CTO organization, and Vice President Of Product Management there since 2016. Other Dell titles include Senior Director Engineering (2015-2016) and Senior Director of Product Management (2016-2017). Holding both engineering and product management titles, Pierluca can speak to how CTO-office solutions become products.
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Rocco Ancona
LinkedInExperience: Vice President and Dell Fellow, Office of the CTO · Dell Technologies
Rocco Ancona has been Vice President and Dell Fellow, Office of the CTO at Dell Technologies since 2018. Earlier Dell titles are CTO Director of Engineering, Client Solutions & Distinguished Engineer (2011-2016) and Senior Manager, XPS Platform Architecture, Gaming Business Unit (2005-2011); between them came two Verifone vice president roles (2016-2018). Rocco fits questions on client platform architecture and CTO-office technology bets.
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Saurabh Tewari
LinkedInExperience: Director & Chief Technology Officer, INDIA · Dell Technologies
Director & Chief Technology Officer, INDIA at Dell Technologies since 2019, Saurabh Tewari held Senior Specialist (2014-2019), Specialist (2012-2014) and Senior Engineer (2010-2012) roles at Ericsson. In their own words, the expertise spans datacenter and technology sales, telecommunications, edge, security, and defence and aerospace. That mix suits questions on how a Dell country CTO works with customers across those sectors.
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Sudhir Srinivasan
LinkedInExperience: Chief Technology Officer Infrastructure Solutions Group (ISG) · Dell Technologies
Sudhir Srinivasan has been Chief Technology Officer Infrastructure Solutions Group (ISG) at Dell Technologies since 2024, after serving as Senior Vice President, Multi-cloud & Data Solutions there (2022-2024). Earlier titles outside Dell include Senior Technical Director at NetApp (2008-2013) and Chief Technical Officer at IBRIX (2002-2008). The ISG CTO seat makes Sudhir a fit for questions on how Dell sets infrastructure and data platform direction.
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Xiaoye Jiang
LinkedInExperience: VP of Engineering · Dell Technologies
Three VP of Engineering stints at Dell Technologies (2017-2022, 2022-2024 and since 2024) make up Xiaoye Jiang's recent record; the current one covers solution engineering for ACP, VxRail and SaaS related infrastructure, and the middle one APEX Subscription & as-a-Service engineering. Xiaoye was Sr. Director of Engineering at Dell from 2013 to 2016. Good for questions on engineering infrastructure sold as a subscription service.
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Choose the right perspective
Sudhir Srinivasan, Rocco Ancona and Pierluca Chiodelli sit closest to CTO-office strategy, while Saurabh Tewari holds the India CTO title and Elliott Young held the UK and EMEA CTO titles (to 2026). For how a product actually gets built, pick by area: Deepak Vokaliga for primary storage architecture, Chris MacLellan for server hardware, Luke Woydziak for agentic AI applications, Xiaoye Jiang for VxRail and as-a-service engineering, and Dilip Khandekar, now former, for PowerProtect Data Manager and release cadence.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01When Dell's Infrastructure Solutions Group CTO office backs a new storage or AI platform, what evidence does it want before product engineering commits headcount?
- 02How do Dell's regional CTOs feed what enterprise customers ask for back into server and storage roadmaps?
- 03What changes for engineering and for customers upgrading a Dell data protection product when it moves to a quarterly release cadence?
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