Saurabh Surendra
Senior Director, Engineering @ Oracle | Apps, Cloud | AI Strategy | Engineering Leadership | IIT Kanpur | IIM Bangalore | Certified Independent Director from IICA, Ministry of Corporate Affairs
- Role
- Senior Director, Oracle Applications Lab at Oracle
- Location
- Hyderabad, IN
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Saurabh Surendra
Technology leader with 27+ years’ experience, including 22 in leadership, spanning ERP, Cloud and platform engineering, building high-performing, global multi-squad organizations and shipping enterprise applications at global scale. I translate strategy into execution, run governance with measurable outcomes, and bridge product, architecture, and delivery. Passionate about driving technology-led transformation and building high-impact teams across Cloud, ERP, and AI. Recent focus: Owning multi-year roadmaps, leading products that process multi-billion-dollar annual transactions, standardizing CI/CD and observability to raise reliability and driving AI/ML features that improve user experience and business impact. Strengths: org build-out, site leadership, hiring and skill/career development, metrics-driven operational excellence, security reviews and compliance, turnaround delivery on at-risk initiatives. Certifications & other accomplishments: Certified Independent Director (IICA), ML Specialization (Stanford), Agentic AI (Vanderbilt). US Patent holder in Supply Chain Planning. Host of the #StayCuriousWithSaurabh podcast, where I explore how technology and human decision-making intersect in varying contexts, bringing leadership and innovation together in the real-world. Avid learner, connector, and believer in continuous reinvention. Always open to meaningful conversations at the intersection of technology leadership, digital innovation, and organizational growth.
Experience
Senior Director, Oracle Applications Lab
Apr 2020 — Present · Hyderabad, IN
Education
Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
B. Tech.
1994 — 1998
University of California, Berkeley
Executive Education
2017 — 2017
Indian Institute of Management Bangalore
Independent Directors' Certificate Programme
2023 — 2024
Skills
- Pre-Sales
- Sdlc
- Software Project Management
- Solution Architecture
- Oracle E-Business Suite
- Business Analysis
- Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
- Management
- Requirements Analysis
- Consulting
- Project Planning
- Erp
- Cross-Functional Team Leadership
- Oracle Applications
- Business Intelligence
- Oracle
- Unix
- Enterprise Resource Planning (Erp)
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