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10 Kaiser Permanente engineering leaders
These ten engineering leaders hold director, senior director and executive director roles in engineering at Kaiser Permanente. A reader can learn how engineering leaders build and run their teams at Kaiser Permanente.
Professionals to explore
01—10Alaka Konda
LinkedInExperience: Director of Architecture, Cloud Platform Engineering and Data Engineering · Kaiser Permanente
Director of Architecture, Cloud Platform Engineering and Data Engineering at Kaiser Permanente since 2020, and former Director and Chief IT Engineering, Advanced Technology, Customer Success there (2014–2020). The profile describes a career developing, managing and scaling data and analytics operations for multiple global corporations and one of the world's largest healthcare organizations.
Alex Kvyat
LinkedInExperience: Executive Director, Business Capabilities Engineering - KP Digital · Kaiser Permanente
Executive Director, Business Capabilities Engineering - KP Digital at Kaiser Permanente since February 2022. Former Kaiser Permanente roles include Senior Director, DevSecOps KP Digital (2020–2022), Director, Application Delivery Tools and DevOps (2018–2020) and Enterprise Architect (2013–2016). The profile lists the current role in Pleasanton, California.
Animesh Ghosh
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director of Engineering · Kaiser Permanente
Senior Director of Engineering at Kaiser Permanente since November 2024, and former Director of Engineering (2022–2024) and Principal Architect Chief Engineer (2015–2022) there. The profile describes an engineering leader at Kaiser Permanente with expertise in cloud transformation, engineering, operations, product management and governance, and mentions execution of a large-scale cloud migration.
Lalith Vaka
LinkedInExperience: Director, Container Platform Engineering & Adoption · Kaiser Permanente
Director, Container Platform Engineering & Adoption at Kaiser Permanente since August 2023, and former Engineering Leader Machine Learning & Container Platforms there (2017–2023). The profile says the current role leads enterprise container platform strategy, engineering execution, adoption and operations across private cloud OpenShift, Azure AKS and ML infrastructure environments.
Manabendra Das
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director, Product Experience Engineering · Kaiser Permanente
Senior Director, Product Experience Engineering at Kaiser Permanente since October 2025, and former Director, Technology Incubation and Experience Engineering there (April 2018 to October 2025), a role the profile lists in Atlanta, Georgia in the Engineering and Technical department. Former Director - IT, India Head of Software Development at Franklin Templeton (2013–2017).
Paul Niu
LinkedInExperience: Director IT Engineering · Kaiser Permanente
Director IT Engineering at Kaiser Permanente since January 2025, a role the profile places in KP Digital, and former Chief IT Engineer - Applications there (2018–2024). The profile says the current role involves leading multiple Agile squads with 80-90 engineers in multiple locations, spanning onshore, nearshore and offshore teams.
Subha Parthasarathy
LinkedInExperience: Sr Director of Engineering · Kaiser Permanente
Sr Director of Engineering at Kaiser Permanente since 2018, a role the profile ties to Data & AIML, and former Principal Enterprise Architect there (2015–2018). The profile says Subha Parthasarathy led and enabled data and AI/ML strategy on a hybrid-cloud platform (on-premises + Azure) for Kaiser Permanente, establishing the foundation for digital transformation.
Travis English
LinkedInExperience: Director of Engineering, Chief Design Engineer · Kaiser Permanente
Director of Engineering, Chief Design Engineer at Kaiser Permanente since September 2015, a role the profile lists in Anaheim, California in the Engineering and Technical department at the Director level. Former Kaiser Permanente roles include Engineering Team Manager (2012–2015) and Principal Mechanical Engineer (2011–2012).
Viju Bettadapura
LinkedInExperience: Director Engineering · Kaiser Permanente
Director Engineering at Kaiser Permanente since November 2017, and former Sr. Manager Engineering there (2015–2017). The profile says the current role involves leading, managing and transforming web development applications and teams both onshore and offshore to develop and deliver AI driven applications.
Yogesh Kulkarni
LinkedInExperience: Executive Director, HR Product Technology Engineering · Kaiser Permanente
Executive Director, HR Product Technology Engineering at Kaiser Permanente since December 2022, a role the profile lists at the Director level in the Product department. Former Kaiser Permanente roles include Senior Director, HR IT Systems Development (2019–2022), Director, IT Systems Development (2019) and Director, Operational Engineering Shared Services (2017–2019).
Choose the right perspective
Match the person's engineering area, such as cloud platforms, data, digital products or design engineering, to the question you need answered. For organization-wide strategy, start with the executive and senior directors; for delivery questions, directors who run teams may be closer to the daily work.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How do you decide which engineering platforms to build centrally and which to leave to individual product teams in a health system?
- 02What did it take to move core applications or data platforms to the cloud while clinical and member services kept running?
- 03How do you staff and coordinate engineering teams that are split across onshore and offshore locations?
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