Srikanth Satya

CTO & Chief Development Officer at Wheels Up

Srikanth Satya is the current CTO and Chief Development Officer at Wheels Up. Prior to this, they served as VP of Engineering for the Unstructured Storage Division and head of Object Engineering & Streaming Analytics at EMC. In this role, they led a 400-member engineering team located in the US, Russia, India, China, Ireland, and Spain to execute mission-critical unstructured storage product initiatives. Srikanth also helped co-develop strategy with high-profile customers and executives across multiple Dell companies and set technical direction for NextGen products.

Under Satya's leadership, EMC evolved from a commoditized storage company into a complete data platform provider. This was achieved in part through the development of Pravega, an open source project offering reliable streaming storage. The vision for Pravega was embraced by Dell leadership and it was evolved into commercial products. Additionally, Satya led the team that upgraded the ECS product, increasing operational efficiency 5X, performance 6X, and space efficiency 10X. As a result of these efforts, ECS achieved #1 in Gartner Magic Quadrant and #1 in IDC market share.

Most recently, Satya has been instrumental in the development of the Streaming Data Platform (Version 1.0). Srikanth set corporate business/product strategy, founded the new engineering team, and directed the ground up development of the platform based on Kubernetes and Pravega. Srikanth designed Stream as a new storage primitive, ushering in a new class of streaming-based data analytics products that enable batch and real-time analytics for a wide swath of applications from IoT to video analytics. In just the first 3 months after launch, the product was purchased by multiple Global Fortune 1000 customers, catapulting Dell to a higher-level market.

Srikanth Satya received a Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering from Osmania University. Srikanth then pursued a M.Tech in Computer Science from the Indian Statistical Institute.

Srikanth Satya reports to Kenny Dichter, Founder & CEO. Srikanth Satya works with Stephanie Chung - Chief Growth Officer, Gene McKenna - Chief Product Officer, and Todd Smith - CFO.

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