DataGrokr / Leadership
Leadership
The people who set the engineering standard.
DataGrokr is led by engineers, for engineers — the standard we hold clients' work to starts with the standard we hold ourselves to.

Naveen Gainedi
Founded DataGrokr in 2016 to build data, cloud and AI engineering practice on one standard: take on the problem, answer for the result. Writes on engineering discipline in the AI era — see Insights.
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Arul Sharma
Arul leads DataGrokr's Data Engineering practice. Over 12+ years building data platforms — from Hadoop through Azure Data Lake and Databricks — for retail, telecom, healthcare, and manufacturing clients across India, Europe, and the US.
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Selvakumar Ponnusamy
Selva leads DataGrokr's Cloud Engineering practice. Certified across AWS, Azure, and GCP, with a background spanning Tech Mahindra, Thomson Reuters, and the Indian Air Force before moving into cloud architecture.
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Rebekah Dogra
Rebekah leads People & Culture and Admin/Facilities at DataGrokr, self-taught into the role over 7.5+ years. She built the internship program's non-technical framework, which now converts 90%+ of interns to full-time offers, along with GrokFest, the company's review system, and policies including bereavement leave and flexible work-from-home.
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