Abhi Sawant

Vice President, Engineering at Google

San Francisco Bay Area

About

Engineering leader and technologist with a career that spans leading highly technical organizations at VC-backed startups (Okta, AppDynamics, Wily Technology, Syncplicity) as well as publicly traded corporations (Okta, Oracle, CA).

Experience

  • Vice President, Engineering at Google
    Jun 2026 - Present · 1 mo

    GCP Platform Security / Agent Identity

  • CTO Advisory Board Member at Bain Capital Ventures
    Sep 2024 - Present · 1 yr 10 mos

  • Okta (12 yrs 6 mos)
    • CTO & Head of Engineering
      Nov 2022 - Jun 2026 · 3 yrs 8 mos

      Engineering Identity in the era of Cloud & AI. • Oversaw all engineering and technical operations for Okta's Workforce & Customer* Identity Cloud, ensuring highly available and robust identity solutions. (*excluding Auth0) • Managed a diverse team of up to 1,200 individuals, fostering collaboration and innovation. • Directed a substantial budget ($xxxMM), optimizing resource allocation to drive engineering excellence and operational efficiency.

    • SVP Engineering
      May 2020 - Oct 2022 · 2 yrs 6 mos

    • VP Engineering
      2016 - May 2020 · 4 yrs 5 mos

  • Director of Engineering at AppDynamics
    2012 - 2014 · 2 yrs

    My tenure at AppD was when it was still a privately held startup. Managed a few teams building the next generation of APM (SaaS and on-prem) with focus on scalability and modernizing the stack to technologies such as Hadoop, HBase and all the stuff that goes along with those. Led organization through it's hyper growth phase working closely with recruiting to drive fast pace hiring all while keeping our SaaS systems running and trains departing.

  • VP Engineering at Syncplicity
    2010 - 2012 · 2 yrs

    Syncplicity is a SaaS file sharing solution in the cloud similar to DropBox and Box. I joined Syncplicity after the company had secured Series B and was responsible for leading engineering. After joining, I built out the engineering team on and off-shore, shipped the company's first phone and tablet applications for both Android and iOS and participated in technical due diligence for the company's acquisition.