Shrikant Thakare is a distinguished Principal Software Engineer and Architect with 17+ years of enterprise-level expertise across E-commerce, Telecommunications, and Finance. Based in Burlington, MA, he masterfully blends deep technical prowess in distributed systems and cloud architecture with strategic business insights, grounded by a Master's in Information Technology from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and an MBA in Strategy from the University of Illinois. Shrikant's expertise and contributions are recognized through his esteemed affiliations: Senior IEEE Member, Fellow at Hackathon Raptors, Lifetime Fellow at Institution of Electronics & Telecommunication Engineers (IETE), and Lifetime Royal Fellow at International Organization for Academic and Scientific Development (IOASD).

Currently, as System Engineering Principal at Salesforce since March 2020, Shrikant spearheads the design and development of proprietary managed database solutions, meeting the high-throughput, low-latency demands of Salesforce CRM products. His innovative leadership includes architecting Kubernetes controllers managing over 1,700 clusters, achieving zero service downtime and generating $1M in annual operational savings. He has also built and scaled multi-cloud services on the Salesforce Hyperforce platform, leading to a 70% reduction in manual engineering toil and $900K in productivity savings.
Prior to Salesforce, Shrikant held pivotal senior engineering roles at industry giants like TripAdvisor, Akamai Technologies, Oracle Corporation, and Bank of America. His impactful contributions include developing high-scale authentication services supporting 1M+ daily users at TripAdvisor, directing the EdgeHostName service handling 10M+ daily requests at Akamai, and building IaaS lifecycle automation at Oracle that reduced provisioning time from weeks to hours.

Shrikant's expertise spans engineering infrastructure, distributed systems, cloud architecture, container orchestration, and platform engineering. A prolific innovator, he holds four U.S. patents in distributed computing and secure system interactions and has published articles in international journals. His commitment to leading-edge technology is underscored by certifications including Google Cloud Digital Leader, AWS Solution Architect, and Salesforce Product Owner.