Salika Ismail

Salika Ismail is currently the Global Accounts Director at Appen, a position held since June 2022, focusing on developing high-quality, human-annotated datasets for machine learning and AI. Prior to this role, Salika was with Cognizant Technology Solutions US Corporation from 2011 to 2022, holding various positions including Portfolio Lead for Cloud Technologies and Infrastructure Services in the Regional Bank Practice, Client Service Executive, Senior Manager - Lead Solution Architect, and Manager - Solution Architect. Earlier in the career, Salika worked as a Project Lead/Senior Consultant at Hewlett-Packard from 2008 to 2011, specializing in architectural design and presales activities for Microsoft Infrastructure solutions. Salika's professional journey began as a Technical Analyst at Tesco from 2005 to 2008 and earlier as a System Engineer at Hewlett-Packard in 2004-2005, contributing expertise in Microsoft Infrastructure design and deployment.