Engineering Leadership · 20+ Years

Sanket Gajjar

Senior Director–level engineering leader driving enterprise-scale transformation of software delivery, SRE, and platform engineering across globally distributed organizations.

PACS & Medical Imaging DevSecOps at Scale DORA Metrics 16,000+ Engineers Impacted AWS Certified SA HIPAA · FIPS · NIST
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20+
Years Experience
16K+
Engineers Impacted
150+
R&D Teams Transformed
70%
Deployment Time Reduction
99.995%
Platform Availability
About

Transforming How Engineering Organizations Deliver

I specialize in scaling pilot DevOps initiatives into durable enterprise standards — deploying DORA metric frameworks, building CI/CD and automated testing infrastructure, and establishing communities of practice across large, matrixed organizations.

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Healthcare Imaging Domain Expertise — A Rare Differentiator

As the first engineering hire at KJAYA, a medical imaging SaaS startup, I architected a full PACS-integrated platform from first principles: DICOM data ingestion and workflow pipelines, GPU-accelerated volumetric 3D reconstruction, Infiniband high-speed networking, and HIPAA/FIPS/NIST-compliant cloud infrastructure. I gathered requirements directly from radiologists and clinical staff, supported NSF grant proposals, and managed every aspect of production infrastructure from data center racking through commercial deployment. Few engineering leaders combine this depth of regulated healthcare domain knowledge with enterprise delivery leadership at Nokia and Cisco scale.

Professional Experience

20+ years across enterprise technology transformation, regulated healthcare systems, and global platform engineering.

Senior Engineering Manager — SRE & Platform Cisco Systems Aug 2019 – Present

Leads global SRE and Platform Engineering teams driving DevSecOps transformation, CI/CD reliability, DORA metric adoption, and engineering excellence culture across a globally distributed organization operating in a zero-trust security environment. Achieved 50% MTTR reduction and sustained 99.995% platform availability.

DORA Metrics DevSecOps SRE CI/CD Communities of Practice Zero-Trust Kubernetes Observability
Director, DevOps & Platform Engineering Nokia Jul 2014 – Aug 2019

Founded Nokia's central DevOps and platform engineering capability — leading enterprise transformation of software development practices across 150+ R&D product teams and 16,000+ developers. Achieved 70% reduction in deployment time and 60% quality improvement through enterprise-wide CI/CD modernization and IaC governance.

Enterprise Transformation GitOps · IaC 150+ Product Teams 16K+ Developers Engineering Standards Playbook Development
Principal Architect & First Engineering Hire KJAYA, LLC Feb 2008 – Jul 2014

First engineering hire at a healthcare SaaS startup building a medical imaging and PACS platform. Architected DICOM workflows, GPU-accelerated volumetric 3D reconstruction, Infiniband networking, and HIPAA/FIPS/NIST-compliant infrastructure from first principles to commercial scale. Gathered requirements from radiologists, supported NSF grant projects, managed data centers, and contributed to investor fundraising.

PACS Architecture DICOM 3D Reconstruction GPU / GPGPU HIPAA · FIPS · NIST Medical Imaging Infiniband
Sr. Programmer Analyst Amerigroup Healthcare Feb 2006 – Jan 2008

Enterprise application development for regulated healthcare insurance systems across 6+ US states.

Regulated Healthcare Enterprise Systems
Lecturer & Lead Research Engineer D.D. University, Gujarat, India Sept 2003 – Dec 2005

Academic research and computer engineering instruction.

Research Computer Engineering
Expertise

Core Competencies

End-to-end capability across enterprise transformation, regulated delivery, and platform engineering.

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DORA Metrics & Engineering Excellence

Deployment frequency, lead time, change failure rate, MTTR — as organizational standards driving measurable improvement programs.

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CI/CD & DevSecOps Transformation

Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD. Security scanning, compliance validation gates, secrets management, and audit-ready pipelines.

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Regulated Healthcare Delivery

HIPAA, FIPS, NIST, QMS awareness, SaMD compliance, PACS architecture, DICOM workflows, and medical imaging software delivery.

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Cloud & Platform Engineering

AWS (Certified SA), GCP, Azure, Kubernetes (GKE, EKS, AKS), Docker, Terraform, Ansible, OpenStack.

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Observability & SRE

Prometheus, Grafana, DataDog, Splunk. Error budget management, toil reduction, proactive reliability engineering at 99.995% availability.

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Communities of Practice

Building and leading engineering CoPs, architecture review boards, internal certification programs, and governance frameworks that scale without hand-holding.

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Standards & Playbook Development

Converting informal DevOps progress into governed, measurable, sustainable engineering capability — playbooks, onboarding guides, and engineering standards at global scale.

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Medical Imaging Systems

PACS integration, DICOM data pipelines, GPU-accelerated 3D volumetric reconstruction, Infiniband networking, clinical requirements gathering.

Academic Background

Business, computer science, and engineering foundations spanning three decades.

MBA
Kelley School of Business, Indiana University — Bloomington, IN
2023
MS, Computer Science
University of Bridgeport — Bridgeport, CT
2007
BE, Computer Engineering
DDIT — Gujarat, India
2003
AWS Certified Solutions Architect Frost & Sullivan Innovative Product Award Speaker: DockerCon Speaker: DevOpsDays Austin Speaker: AMD APU 2013
Contact

Let's Connect

Based in Austin, TX. Open to senior engineering leadership opportunities.

sanketgajjar@gmail.com 858-335-3429 linkedin.com/in/sanketg Austin, TX