Parik Pol

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Director of Engineering at CoreWeave

Seattle, Washington, United States

Overview

Parik is a senior engineering leader with over 20 years of experience building and scaling large-scale data platforms at AWS, Meta, and Amazon. He now leads the AI Platform engineering organization at CoreWeave. He holds an M. S. from the University of Southern California.

He appears passionate about building world-class teams and is actively involved in networking and hiring senior engineers. He often publicly encourages talented individuals to connect and join his teams to tackle significant challenges in AI and cloud infrastructure.

Unique fact: Parik holds a patent for a system designed for the monitoring and automated recovery of data services, effectively creating a virtual database administrator.

Personality Overview

Hard To Convince

Judgemental

ROI Conscious

They don’t always try to control the conversation but neither do they like yielding it fully.  They can be nudged to make faster decisions by offering what they value. They respond well to confident salespeople.

Topics They Care About

AI/ML Infrastructure
Leads the AI Platform at CoreWeave and previously drove major ML training efficiency wins at Meta, focusing on infrastructure for training at a global scale.
Scaling Engineering Teams
Focuses on scaling teams globally, having managed an organization of over 120 engineers at AWS, and is actively hiring senior and staff engineers at CoreWeave.
Large-Scale Data Systems
Managed an exabyte-scale blob storage system at Meta and the storage layer for DynamoDB, demonstrating expertise in high-performance distributed databases and storage.

Media Appearances

Parik has no verified media appearances

Work History

1-2026
Director of Engineering at CoreWeave
1-2023 - 1-2026
Head of Engineering - AWS Data Lakes Catalog & Access control at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
2-2016 - 2-2023
Sr. Engineering Manager - AI Infra and Blob Storage at Meta
1-2005 - 2-2016
Software Development Manager - DynamoDB, Consensus Service, & RDS at Amazon.com
Software Engineer at KPIT

Education

M.S. from University of Southern California
BE from Shivaji University

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Insights For Selling To Parik

During A Call Or A Meeting

DO's

  • Refer to testimonials from others in similar positions
  • Make sure that you you respond to any queries from them quickly
  • Be crisp while making the pitch

DONT's

  • Don’t expect them to change their mind quickly if they say no once
  • Don’t try to be an alpha salesperson, give them equal space
  • Avoid repeating yourself or making generalizations

When Cold Calling

When Writing An Email

While Negotiating & Closing

    The secret to closing fast with Parik is

  • Confidence in the product plays an important role, followed by powerful testimonials.
  • Will you ever get a clear answer from Parik

  • They might hesitate a little, but they will say no if they are not convinced.

Insights For Deal Planning

    How fast (or slow) will Parik move?

  • Their decision making speed is somewhere in the middle.
  • Can Parik take some risk or not?

  • Once they have analyzed the pros and cons, they can take some risks.

You And Parik

Personality Compatibility


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