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Anupam Kumar Jha

Visionary · DISC type Ds
Regional Manager - Sales Engineering, India & SAARC at Datadog
📍 Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

Anupam Jha leads Sales Engineering for Datadog in India & SAARC, specializing in building high-performance presales teams focused on AI, observability, and security. A frequent keynote speaker at tech conferences, he was awarded Top SE for APJ and inducted into the Presidents Club in 2024 for his GTM leadership.

At a recent conference, he delivered a product demo that incorporated themes of cricket and food delivery to make the technology more relatable to the local audience, showcasing his creative approach to technical sales.

He was the founding member and first sales engineer for Datadog in India, tasked with building the business and the entire presales function from the ground up.

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Experience
8 Years
Current Role
Regional Manager - Sales Engineering, India & SAARC
Job Level
Middle
Location
Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India
Personality Overview

How Anupam shows up

Risk Tolerant
Early Adopter
Objective Evaluator

Reading between the lines and seeing beyond your words comes naturally to them. They might take some time to make their mind up but once they do, they don't change it easily. They exhibit a rare combination of being result-oriented but patient at the same time.

Priorities

Topics Anupam cares about

Building Presales Teams
He has a proven record of building and scaling sales engineering functions from scratch and frequently posts online about hiring and mentoring top talent.
AI & Observability
A core focus of his career, he is a frequent keynote speaker on leveraging AI in cloud observability, security, and monitoring for major enterprises.
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Career

Work history

2-2026
Regional Manager - Sales Engineering, India & SAARC
Datadog
3-2025 - 2-2026
Manager - Sales Engineering, India
Datadog
1-2024 - 2-2025
Senior Enterprise Sales Engineer
Datadog
1-2023 - 12-2023
Senior Solutions Consultant
New Relic, Inc.
2-2022 - 1-2023
Solutions Consultant II
New Relic, Inc.
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Education
Bachelor of Technology - BTech
SRM IST Chennai
Social presence
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Behavioral profile

DISC profile (public)

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Dominance (D)

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