About Me

I build and ship enterprise AI platforms at scale.

As Director & Group Lead, Agentic AI at Appian since February 2025, I currently lead 20 engineers and two managers. I led the teams that delivered Agent Studio from beta to general availability in Appian 25.4.

I build enterprise agents that combine generative AI with controlled workflows, guardrails, governance, and auditing. My work brings together manager development, architecture, and hands-on prototyping.

Previously, I led a 46-person SRE organization through five managers and cloud-platform work serving 1,200+ enterprise customers across 21 regions.

Explore the two current resumes →

  • Increased concurrent-agent capacity to at least 10x its prior level per Appian single-tenant instance, with 25x the original baseline demonstrated in testing and no observed degradation in accuracy or per-agent runtime across multi-turn runs. I led the redesign from process-engine execution to a stateless, API-based agent harness. Architecture and delivery →
  • Introduced parallel AI-assisted development workflows and coached teams on agentic tools; over one year my own group tripled its delivered feature scope, measured in developer-weeks of work and total team output.
  • Led AI-assisted development rollout to 800 engineers in six months; personally built Terraform/AWS infrastructure and co-developed deployment controls.
  • Rated "Exceptional" (top 15%) in the 2025 and H1 2026 review cycles. Appian Impact Award in December 2025 for cross-organizational AI adoption.
  • 10+ years of cloud and AWS experience; AWS Solutions Architect – Professional credential earned June 2017
  • MS Computer Science, Georgia Tech — Machine Learning and Computing Systems focus, 3.90 GPA; completed December 2024 while working full-time
  • Partnered with architecture and information security on FedRAMP and HITRUST requirements; led the group whose web-layer controls completed HITRUST readiness work in one sprint, supporting the broader certification effort. Cloud-platform work →

Technology Skills

  • AI platforms — Led enterprise agent delivery; co-developed architecture for memory, guardrails, MCP, execution, and tools. Hands-on prototyping, API design, and AI-assisted development.
  • Retrieval — Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), retrieval and context pipelines. More engineering skills and implementation work →
  • Graduate machine-learning projects — supervised and unsupervised learning, randomized optimization, and custom reinforcement-learning solvers
  • Cloud engineering — AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Java, SQL, observability, secure migration tooling, and operational automation.
  • BSc. Computer Engineering, Georgia Tech — 2014
  • Software — Python, Java, C/C++/C#
  • Public GitHub Contributions
  • Strong foundations and extensive experience with Networking, Security, Computer Architecture and Algorithms.

Background

  • Graduated from Georgia Institute of Technology with an MSc in Computer Science and BSc in Computer Engineering.
  • I am extremely passionate about new technologies and love innovating.
  • Enjoy scuba diving, traveling, taking part in volunteering organizations, photography and meeting new people.

Values and Principles

  • Time and Change
  • Happiness of Individuals/People Around Me
  • Personal Health
  • Pure Honesty
  • Hard Work
  • Mistakes and Failures
  • Best Ideas Win and Meritocracy
  • Life

Leadership Updates

Feb 2025–present: Director & Group Lead, Agentic AI. Restructured four teams around shared services and clear API ownership for AI application creation, process mining, and robotic process automation. Adopted open-source agentic backends and harnesses; personally built a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server prototype. The agentic platform now serves many production customers. Explore Agent Studio →

Jan 2024–Jan 2025: Director & Group Lead, SRE. Led five teams and five managers, 46 people in total, through a CTO-sponsored reliability turnaround. I worked with the team to cut critical-outage mean time to recovery (MTTR) from 9 hours to under 3. Performance-related customer satisfaction rose from 67% to 80% and feature satisfaction from 83% to 90% between Q1 2024 and 2025. Read the SRE turnaround →

Apr–Dec 2023: Director & Group Lead, Cloud Services & Platform Engineering. Previously Senior Software Engineering Manager with functional group-lead responsibility from Jan 2022–Mar 2023.

Oct 2020–Jan 2022: Senior Cloud Software Manager, leading 12 engineers with six direct reports. Previously Lead Cloud Engineer for Shared Infrastructure, Apr 2018–Oct 2020.

Recognition

Sahil is a leader who balances deep technical skill with a genuine, empathetic approach to management.

Steph Colen
Former direct report · April 27, 2026

Thank you Sahil for pushing us to make better decisions by questioning our assumptions.

Engineering colleague · Internal peer recognition

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