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10 Salesforce engineering leaders
These ten people hold or have held engineering leadership roles at Salesforce as executive vice presidents, senior vice presidents and vice presidents of engineering and software engineering. A reader can learn how engineering leaders build and run their teams at Salesforce.
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01—10Amit Kamat
LinkedInExperience: Senior Vice President of Engineering · Salesforce
Senior Vice President of Engineering at Salesforce since August 2025, a current role based in the Greater Seattle Area. Former Vice President of Software Engineering (2022–2025) and Senior Director of Software Engineering (2020–2022) at Salesforce, and former Principal Group Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft (2003–2020).
Amy Hurlbut
LinkedInExperience: Senior Vice President, Software Engineering · Salesforce
Senior Vice President, Software Engineering at Salesforce since February 2019, a current role; the profile says Amy leads a global software engineering team on Salesforce's Core CRM Platform, working on scale, high availability, performance, monitoring and resiliency. Former Vice President, Software Engineering (2014–2019) and Senior Director, Core Infrastructure Engineering (2013–2014) at Salesforce.
Christopher Williams
LinkedInExperience: Senior Vice President of Engineering · Salesforce
Senior Vice President of Engineering at Salesforce since February 2026, a current role the listing places at the President/Vice President level in the Engineering and Technical department. Former Vice President, Software Engineering at Salesforce (2021–2026), and Senior Director, Software Engineering at Salesforce in roles listed from 2018 to 2021.
Harsimran Chabbewal
LinkedInExperience: Senior Vice President of Engineering · Salesforce
Senior Vice President of Engineering at Salesforce since August 2023, a current role; the profile says Harsimran leads Engineering for Salesforce's Metadata Platform, spanning groups for Identity, Access Control, APIs, Apex and Logic, and Eventing. Former Vice President Of Engineering (2019–2023), Senior Director Of Engineering (2017–2019) and Director of Software Engineering (2015–2017) at Salesforce.
Indira Iyer
LinkedInExperience: Senior Vice President, Software Engineering, Salesforce Einstein Engineering · Salesforce
Senior Vice President, Software Engineering, Salesforce Einstein Engineering at Salesforce since September 2018, a current role; the profile describes a cross-organization, cross-geo effort across application, data science, infrastructure and platform engineering teams to deliver the next generation AI/ML platform for Salesforce. Former Senior Director, Software Engineering, Salesforce IoT (2016–2018).
Jason Ding
LinkedInExperience: Senior Vice President of Engineering · Salesforce
Senior Vice President of Engineering at Salesforce since February 2020, a current role. The profile describes a focus on quality, performance and scalability for AI-powered enterprise software, cloud computing and massive-scale infrastructure. Former Vice President of Engineering (2016–2020), Sr. Director, Performance Engineering (2013–2016) and Director, Performance Engineering (2011–2013) at Salesforce.
Prem Veeramani
LinkedInExperience: Vice President, Software Engineering · Salesforce
Vice President, Software Engineering at Salesforce since May 2019, a current role the listing places in the Engineering and Technical department. Former Senior Director, Software Engineering (2014–2019), Director, Software Engineering (2013–2014) and Senior Software Engineering Manager (2012–2013) at Salesforce.
Ramesh Ragineni
LinkedInExperience: Executive Vice President Engineering · Salesforce
Executive Vice President Engineering at Salesforce since February 2022, a current role the profile describes as responsible for Industries Cloud, Marketing Cloud, Revenue Cloud and SFS Cloud, driving global engineering, product strategy and innovation. Former SVP Software Engineering (2018–2022) and Vice President of Engineering (2016–2019) at Salesforce.
Sanjeev Lakshmanan
LinkedInExperience: Senior Vice President of Engineering · Salesforce
Senior Vice President of Engineering at Salesforce since February 2024, a current role. Former Vice President Of Engineering (2020–2024), Senior Director of Engineering (2017–2020) and Director of Software Engineering (2015–2017) at Salesforce, and former Senior Engineering Manager, Principal engineer at Oracle (2011–2015).
Shan Appajodu
LinkedInExperience: Executive Vice President, Engineering · Salesforce
Executive Vice President, Engineering at Salesforce since June 2026, a current role. Former Senior Vice President of Engineering at Salesforce (2023–2026); the profile says that role led a company-wide transformation from AI adoption to AI first. Also former VP of Engineering (2022–2023) and Principal Architect VP (2019–2022) at Salesforce, and Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer of omnYbus Inc. (2014–2018).
Choose the right perspective
Match the person's area to your question, since leaders of core platform, performance and infrastructure engineering face different problems than leaders of product clouds or AI platforms. Ask how the person's organization is set up today, and check the dates of any past Salesforce role you want to discuss.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How do you organize engineering teams around a shared platform that many product lines depend on?
- 02What practices keep a multi-tenant cloud platform reliable and fast as usage keeps growing?
- 03How should an engineering organization change its tools and habits when it moves to building AI into every product?
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