Meet Arhaan Saksena, Head of Customer Engineering, Google Cloud

Arhaan Saksena is a technology leader specializing in cloud solutions and customer success. As Head of Customer Engineering for Google Cloud, he focuses on acquiring new enterprise customers and maximizing their value through innovative solutions. With over 15 years of pre-sales experience, Arhaan excels at building trusted relationships and understanding client needs. He translates those needs into effective technical solutions, leveraging his expertise in cloud-native technologies, SaaS, and data/AI applications.

During his 7+ years at Google, he has consistently delivered impactful results in various customer-facing engineering and leadership roles. Arhaan is passionate about helping businesses harness the power of the cloud to drive growth and solve complex challenges.

His strong academic foundation includes a Master of Science in Information Systems from the University of Maryland and a Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering. He further honed his business skills through the Stanford LEAD Online Business Program.

In this episode, we talked about how Google runs both hackathons with customers and open hackathons for the entire development community. We also discussed how to increase software development velocity: use the power of AI to write better code faster and optimize your infrastructure with a code assistant. The goal is always to minimize time spent on boilerplate code and instead focus on business logic and user-centric features.