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Sanket Atal

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India Country Head and Senior Vice President, Engineering at OpenText
📍 Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Sanket Atal is the India Country Head and SVP of Engineering at OpenText. With over 29 years of experience at firms like Salesforce, Intuit, and Oracle, he specializes in business strategy, innovation, and leading large R&D operations. He holds degrees from Cornell University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Sanket has significant international experience, having worked in both the US and India while leading geographically distributed teams. He focuses on fostering growth within the Indian technology landscape and actively engages with industry leaders to discuss innovation and strategy.

He is a co-inventor on patents related to handling skew in parallel, distributed hash join processing for databases.

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Experience
13 Years
Current Role
India Country Head and Senior Vice President, Engineering
Job Level
Leadership
Location
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Personality Overview

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Value Driven
Assertive

They are generally good communicators and can be hard to convince. They can sound friendly and charming but can quickly change gears to become inquisitive and probing. They are likely to ask many questions and look heavily for supporting information.

Priorities

Topics Sanket cares about

AI & Data
Heavily focused on OpenText's AI Data Platform in recent posts, viewing it as a "game changer" for turning trusted information into a powerful ally for business.
Innovation Culture
Consistently emphasizes building a strong innovation culture, leading Intuit India to be recognized as a "Best Workplace for Culture of Innovation. "
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Career

Work history

11-2025
India Country Head and Senior Vice President, Engineering
OpenText
3-2021 - 11-2025
Managing Director - Salesforce India Operations, Site Lead - Technology/Marketing/Product
Salesforce
4-2018 - 3-2021
Managing Director
Intuit India
10-2014 - 4-2018
Group Vice President
Oracle
6-2012 - 8-2014
Chief Technical Officer
MakeMyTrip.com
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Education
9-2004 - 6-2006
MBA
University of Oregon
8-1989 - 6-1991
MS
University of Wisconsin-Madison
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