Senior Vice President of Engineering & Security at Starburst
📍 Saratoga, California, United States
Jitender Aswani is the Senior Vice President of Engineering at Starburst, leading the global engineering organization. With over 20 years of experience at firms like Netflix, Meta, and Moveworks, he specializes in scaling high-performance teams and building data platforms for AI. He holds an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
Colleagues and reports describe him as enthusiastic, analytical, and an excellent team player, with a talent for bringing energy to his teams and pushing them to aim higher.
He holds multiple patents in machine learning, data management, and graph optimization.
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Experience
10 Years
Current Role
Senior Vice President of Engineering & Security
Job Level
Leadership
Location
Saratoga, California, United States
Personality Overview
How Jitender shows up
Driven But Considerate
Dynamic But Sincere
Friendly But Fast
If they are convinced, they can become very strong champions for your product They have the unique ability to win both love and respect from their team (or outsiders) They combine a unique set of diverse traits where they are fast and friendly but can slow down to be thorough when needed
Priorities
Topics Jitender cares about
Enterprise AI Platforms
His current role at Starburst is focused on advancing their data platform for AI applications. He frequently speaks and posts about accelerating AI from development to deployment.
Scaling Global Teams
A core theme of his career is building and scaling global engineering and data science organizations from startup to enterprise, fostering a high-performance, outcome-driven culture.
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Career
Work history
4-2025
Senior Vice President of Engineering & Security
Starburst
1-2023 - 3-2025
VP, Global Head of Engineering and CISO
StarTree
1-2020 - 12-2022
Sr. Director, Head Of Engineering & Data Science, Insights Products
Moveworks
1-2018 - 1-2020
Sr. Engineering Manager, Head of Data Science and Engineering, Security, Privacy, and Cloud Infra
Netflix
1-2015 - 12-2017
Engineering Manager, Head of Data, Core Growth
Facebook
In the press
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Education
Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.)
The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
B.Tech
Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University), Varanasi
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