Abhishek Das

Lead Member of Technical Staff, Salesforce

Abhishek Das is a seasoned software engineering leader with over 12 years of experience at major technology companies including Salesforce, Microsoft Azure, Groupon, and EMC Corporation. Currently serving as a Software Engineer Lead at Salesforce, he has demonstrated expertise in designing and developing sophisticated machine learning platforms, distributed systems, and cloud infrastructure solutions. His technical leadership spans complex projects involving high-scale, low-latency systems, including innovative work on Large Language Models and multi-step DAG execution systems that handle predictive and generative AI use cases.

Throughout his career, Das has proven himself as both a technical architect and team leader, successfully managing multi-year projects with teams of 8+ engineers across different geographical locations. His notable achievements include leading the development of bare metal as a service control planes at Microsoft Azure, creating GDPR compliance solutions capable of scanning petabytes of data, and securing a patent for optimizing backup processes in clustered environments. Based in Bellevue, Washington, he holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from Texas A&M University and has received recognition including the EMC Award of Excellence for his outstanding technical contributions.