About

Santosh Shaastry is an accomplished enterprise SaaS products and software engineering leader with over 16 years of experience building impactful B2B and B2C SaaS products in organizations. As a Director of Engineering, he has hands-on experience in setting up and scaling software engineering and product teams. Santosh is a transformational leader who has helped organizations scale while establishing an environment in which people thrive. Santosh truly believes that people are the backbone of an organization, and a highly generative culture is a key ingredient to building high-performing teams. He enjoys exploring new and emerging technologies and loves building high-performing teams and reliable software with empathy, honesty, and transparency. He has experience in hiring, mentoring, and building world-class teams and establishing a culture that people love. Currently, Santosh is the Director of Engineering at Alation, where he is responsible for leading the development of their enterprise data catalog. Previously, he worked as the Director of Engineering at Khoros, where he was accountable for multi-million dollar revenue Digital Engagement Hub software products. At Khoros, he managed a team of 35 engineers and three managers and collaborated with product, architecture, and other stakeholders to define the strategy and roadmap. Santosh has also worked as a Senior Manager of Engineering at Khoros, where he owned mission-critical marketing products used by Fortune 500 companies. He was responsible for technical ownership of the application that processes billions of social network records. Santosh has a Bachelor of Engineering from NIT Surat and a Stanford LEAD Professional Certificate in Organizational Leadership from Stanford University. His relevant experience spans over 17 years, and his tech stack includes Senior Software Engineer.