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
Founder & CEO

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
Head of Data Engineering

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
Head of Cloud Engineering

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
Head of People & Culture, Admin & Facilities

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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