Depesh Pitamber

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ABOUT DEPESH PITAMBER

I’m a seasoned engineering leader with over 21 years of experience building and scaling high-performing technology organisations across financial services and travel. I’ve led software development, infrastructure, cloud engineering, and operations teams, giving me a systems-level view of how to deliver reliable technology at scale.At Booking.com, I lead teams in the Cloud Centre of Excellence, driving adoption of AWS through reusable platform tooling, secure-by-default workflows, and streamlined developer experiences. I’ve embedded FinOps practices that reduced cloud spend by 12%, championed GenAI use cases to accelerate delivery, and guided teams in adopting observability, compliance, and SRE practices to strengthen platform resilience. These initiatives have directly improved time-to-market, cost visibility, and engineering efficiency for 50+ product teams.Previously, at Standard Bank, I scaled payments engineering to 30+ engineers, modernised digital payments and identity platforms, and introduced enterprise observability frameworks, reducing defects and improving reliability across millions of customer transactions.I thrive at the intersection of technology strategy and organisational leadership: aligning technical delivery with business value, fostering psychologically safe and inclusive teams, and enabling engineers and managers to grow. My leadership style combines strategic vision, hands-on technical credibility, and a proven ability to deliver impact through enablement.