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# Ashish Gite on Tal

## Headline

Data & AI Platform Engineering

## About

Technology executive with 25 years of experience building Full\-stack Distributed systems, Data platforms, Lakehouse architectures, and Generative AI platform\. Led engineering organizations across Salesforce, Visa, LinkedIn, Yahoo, and BookMyShow, delivering hyperscale data processing, cloud modernization, AI infrastructure and platform engineering initiatives serving enterprise customers worldwide\. As the Director of Software Engineering at Salesforce, I lead a talented and diverse global team, building Data & AI Platform\. Data Lakehouse to process & store structured \+ unstructured data objects\. AI platform for supporting multi\-modal data sources for RAG \(Retrieval Augmented Generation\) actions & Prompt engineering tools for reusable & efficient interactions with LLMs \(Large Language Model\)\. I am always keen to learn new things, open to new ideas, and self\-motivated to achieve excellence\.

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

claude code

cursor

gemini

mcp

notebooklm

openai

## Work experience

Director Software Engineering at Salesforce, Jun 2021 \- Present · 5 y 4 mo, Bangalore

General Manager \- Platform Engineering & Architecture at BookMyShow, Jan 2021 \- Jun 2021 · 5 mo, Remote

Director Software Engineering at Visa, 2019 \- 2021 · 2 yrs

Software Development Lead at LinkedIn, 2016 \- 2019 · 3 yrs

Senior Engineering Manager at Snapwiz EduTec, Mar 2015 \- Dec 2015 · 9 mo, Bangalore

## Education

Savitribai Phule Pune University

Centre for Development of Advanced Computing \(C\-DAC\)

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