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Amit Gupta

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Senior Director of AI/ML at Salesforce
📍 Greater Seattle Area, United States

Amit is a senior engineering leader with over 20 years of experience building AI and Cloud platforms at Salesforce, Microsoft, and Oracle. He has led global teams to deliver zero-to-one products, including Azure AD B2B. Colleagues describe him as skillful, decisive, and possessing strong business acumen. He holds an MS from UT Austin and an MBA from the University of Washington.

Outside of his formal roles, Amit is an active member of the Seattle-area tech community. He frequently attends leadership dinners and industry events, including CISO exchanges and networking opportunities at local sporting events, to connect with peers and discuss emerging technology trends.

Unique fact: Amit holds a patent for a system that improves the relevancy sorting of a users web browser history.

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Experience
25 Years
Current Role
Senior Director of AI/ML
Job Level
Senior
Location
Greater Seattle Area, United States
Personality Overview

How Amit shows up

Hard To Convince
ROI Conscious
Demanding

They don’t always try to control the conversation but neither do they like yielding it fully. They respond well to confident salespeople. They focus on objectivity in a pitch and pay little attention to bells and whistles.

Priorities

Topics Amit cares about

AI in Production
His recent focus includes thinking about the practicalities of running AI systems in production, particularly from a security and CISO perspective.
Enterprise AI Security
Has deep experience architecting systems for high-compliance environments (FedRAMP, DoD, CJIS) and recently attended a CISO leadership event to discuss security.
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Career

Work history

2025
Senior Director of AI/ML
Salesforce
2025
Co-Founder
Cognevo.AI
2021 - 2025
Principal Group Engineering Manager / Senior Director
Microsoft
7-2018 - 6-2021
Principal Group Engineering Manager / Senior Director
Yammer, Inc.
2016 - 2018
Group Engineering Manager @ Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Oracle
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Media appearances

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Education
2025 - 2027
Master of Science - MS
The University of Texas at Austin
2018 - 2020
Master of Business Administration - MBA
UW Foster School of Business
Social presence
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Behavioral profile

DISC profile (public)

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