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10 Palantir engineering leaders
These ten current and former Palantir engineering and technology leaders, including Palantir's CTO, have led engineering and architecture work at the company. Their experience can help a reader understand how technical work is organized and led at Palantir and what leading engineering teams there involves.
Professionals to explore
01—10Adam Anderson
LinkedInExperience: Engineering Group Lead · Palantir Technologies
Engineering Group Lead at Palantir Technologies since 2023; he was an Engineering Team Lead there from 2019 to 2023, a Software Engineer from 2018 to 2019 and a Product Manager from 2013 to 2018. His profile says he holds a leadership role across the Environment Platform group, whose teams own the Kubernetes control plane tech stack.
Adam Lieskovsky
LinkedInExperience: Engineering Group Lead · Palantir Technologies
Adam Lieskovsky has been Engineering Group Lead at Palantir Technologies since 2024, a head-level role in the engineering and technical department in Zürich. Other Palantir roles shown are Development Team Lead (2022–2024), Software Engineer, Tech Lead (2018–2022) and Forward Deployed Software Engineer (2018). Adam Lieskovsky was also a Senior Software Engineer, Backend at Numbrs (2017–2018).
Akash J.
LinkedInExperience: CTO, USG · Palantir Technologies
CTO, USG at Palantir Technologies since 2019 and President of Palantir USG, Inc. since 2008. He was a Director of Engineering at Palantir Technologies from 2007 to 2019 and a Lead Software Engineer there from 2005 to 2007; he was a Senior Software Engineer at Plumtree Software from 2003 to 2005.
Akshay Krishnaswamy
LinkedInExperience: Chief Architect · Palantir Technologies
Chief Architect at Palantir Technologies since December 2012, a role his profile lists in Palo Alto under the engineering and technical department at head level. He was a Researcher at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine from 2008 to 2012.
Bernard Rosiak
LinkedInExperience: Director of Data Architecture & Technology · Palantir Technologies
Former Director of Data Architecture & Technology at Palantir Technologies (2021–2025), a director-level role in the engineering and technical department. He was an Enterprise Data Architect at VelocityEHS (2019–2021), Engineering Manager, Database at NEORIS (2016–2019) and a Senior Data Engineer at Avanade (2014–2016).
Jonathan Lafleche
LinkedInExperience: Engineering Group Lead · Palantir Technologies
Jonathan Lafleche has been Engineering Group Lead at Palantir Technologies since 2021, a head-level role in the engineering and technical department in Singapore, and has also held a Software Engineer role at Palantir since 2017. Other roles shown are Software Development Engineer at Amazon (2014–2015) and Software Developer at Apryse (2012–2013).
Saurabh Shukla
LinkedInExperience: Engineering Group Lead · Palantir Technologies
Engineering Group Lead at Palantir Technologies since 2023, a head-level role in the engineering and technical department. He was an Engineering Team Lead at Palantir in London from 2018 to 2023 and a Software Engineer there from 2015 to 2018, after a Software Engineer Intern role at Palantir in 2014.
Shyam Sankar
LinkedInExperience: Chief Technology Officer · Palantir Technologies
Chief Technology Officer at Palantir Technologies since 2023, a C-level role in the company's engineering and technical department; he was Palantir's Chief Operating Officer from 2006 to 2023. He has also been Chairman of Ginkgo Bioworks since 2023 and a member of the Hudson Institute Board of Trustees since 2024.
Thien Nguyen
LinkedInExperience: Head of Forward Deployed Engineering, APAC · Palantir Technologies
Head of Forward Deployed Engineering, APAC at Palantir Technologies since 2026, a head-level engineering role. He held Engineering Lead roles at Palantir from 2020 to 2026 and was a Forward Deployed Engineer there from 2017 to 2020; he was a Software Developer at Optiver from 2015 to 2017.
Will Manning
LinkedInExperience: Development Group Lead & Chief Architect · Palantir Technologies
Former Development Group Lead & Chief Architect at Palantir Technologies (2016–2022) and Forward Deployed Engineer there (2013–2016). His profile says he co-created Palantir Foundry, was the longtime #2 to the CTO, and conceived, designed and led development of large parts of Foundry. He has been Founder & CEO of Spiral since 2022.
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Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How are engineering teams at Palantir structured, and how do group leads divide ownership of platform components?
- 02How does Palantir balance forward deployed engineering work with core platform development?
- 03What architecture decisions mattered most as Palantir's platforms scaled to more customers?
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