Nishant Ghan

I am a Principal Software Engineer with 14+ years of experience building mission-critical, large-scale distributed systems at leading technology companies including Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Salesforce, Tableau Software, and Amazon. I currently lead the Network Anomaly Detection team at Oracle, where my work protects data for approximately 183 million monthly active users in the United States. My expertise spans cloud infrastructure, security engineering, developer productivity, and data platforms. I hold a Master's degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Florida and a Bachelor's degree in Information Technology from College of Engineering Pune, India. Throughout my career, I have consistently taken on critical leadership roles delivering exceptional business impact. At Oracle, I designed the complete Zero Trust Bastion Session Recordings anomaly detection pipeline from scratch, lead a team of 4 engineers across 6 global regions, and support every team member with their projects while establishing robust engineering culture through mentorship, documentation, and process improvements. At Salesforce, I was a founding member of the Developer Productivity Organization, helping grow it from 2 to 30+ engineers while serving as the go-to Gradle expert supporting 1,000+ Tableau developers. At Tableau, I was a core team member designing the Web Data Connector affecting 500,000+ customers, organized hackathons at Tableau Conferences attended by hundreds of developers, and delivered technical presentations to thousands. At Amazon, I built promotional systems utilized by 450,000+ customers with work featured in major publications including IGN, GameSpot, PCMag, CNET, and The Next Web. Beyond my technical work, I actively volunteer at Sevasphere LA cooking for the unhoused community and facilitate meditation and yoga workshops for underprivileged communities in Los Angeles.