Arpit Diggi
Director of Engineering
- Role
- Director of Engineering at Snowflake
- Location
- San Francisco, CA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Arpit Diggi
I’m a senior engineering leader with a track record of building the teams, platforms, and operating models that help organizations improve developer productivity, strengthen quality, and scale execution. My career has spanned developer productivity, quality engineering, release engineering, platform engineering, and technical program leadership. Across each of these areas, my focus has been consistent: strengthen the foundations that help engineering organizations move faster, raise quality, and scale execution with confidence. I’ve found that the most meaningful improvements rarely come from tools alone. They come from aligning strategy, incentives, processes, and teams around a shared outcome. That’s the work I enjoy most: setting direction, building trust across organizations, and translating complexity into execution at scale.Today at Snowflake, I lead teams across AI-powered developer experience, performance tooling, test frameworks, release engineering and release management. Previously, I held leadership roles at Snap and Pinterest across quality, release, localization, client platforms, and engineering productivity. I’m particularly drawn to systemic challenges that require cross-functional leadership, clear prioritization, and durable operational change to improve engineering velocity and quality at scale.
Experience
Director of Engineering
Jun 2025 — Present · San Francisco, CA, US
As part of the Engineering Systems organization, I lead teams that design and deliver the tooling, frameworks, and operational processes that accelerate developer productivity and enable engineers to ship high-quality user experiences with confidence- AI DevEx Team: Builds and integrates AI-powered tools using large language models and agent systems to enhance developer productivity- Performance Tools Infrastructure Team: Provides engineers with a self-service performance benchmarking system including tools for benchmark creation, storage, alerting, visualization, and release gating to accelerate development of high-performing code and prevent regressions- Snowtrail: Allows engineers to safely test new software versions by detecting query correctness, failure, and performance issues while maintaining quality and high development velocity- Test Frameworks: Builds and maintains a unified, scalable testing framework to enable consistent, efficient, and high-quality software testing for key products- Release Management and Release Engineering: Oversees and streamlines release processes, ensuring safe, reliable, and high-velocity software delivery for key products- SDET Team: Embedded within product teams, SDETs drive software quality by shaping testing strategies, building test frameworks, automating end-to-end tests, advocating best practices, and fostering a proactive “Shift Left” approach to ensure reliable, customer-focused software delivery.
Education
North Carolina State University
Master of Science - MS, Computer Engineering
2001 — 2003
UW Foster School of Business
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Technology Management MBA
2009 — 2010
University of Mumbai
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Electronics
1997 — 2001
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