Open to Senior / Staff TPM roles — AI, Platform, Infra
Kshitija Niyogi
AI · Platform · Infrastructure · San Francisco Bay Area
Senior TPM building and shipping platform, infrastructure, and AI programs at scale. Most recently leading AI voice-app delivery at a stealth startup; previously 3 years driving Platform Engineering programs at Dropbox, including the 2024 Spring Release of end-to-end encryption.
Currently
MIT Applied AI · 2025–2026
About
Engineering depth, executive clarity.
Platform & Infrastructure
Reliability, scalability, and developer-experience programs for systems that thousands of engineers depend on daily.
AI Programs
Shipping AI-native products with a focus on evals, latency, cost, and the cross-functional muscle to move from prototype to GA.
Cross-functional Delivery
Leading programs across engineering, product, design, security, legal, and GTM — turning ambiguity into commitments and commitments into shipped software.
Executive Communication
Translating engineering reality into crisp narratives for VPs, founders, and boards. Writing that earns trust.
Selected work
Shipped.
End-to-End Encryption — Dropbox 2024 Spring Release
Program-led the launch of customer-managed E2E encryption across Dropbox's content platform.
Real-Time AI Voice Application — MVP to First Customers
Shipped a low-latency voice AI product from zero to first paying customers.
Platform & Developer-Experience Programs
Reliability, build/test/deploy, and platform-foundation programs for Dropbox engineering.
FlashBlade NPI — Global Commercial Launch
Owned New Product Introduction for Pure's scale-out unstructured-data platform.
Experience
A decade across platform, infra, and AI.
Stealth Startup
Senior Technical Program Manager — AI
2024 — Present
Leading end-to-end delivery of AI voice applications from MVP to early customers. Owning roadmap, evals, latency budgets, and cross-functional execution across product, ML, and infra.
Dropbox
Senior Technical Program Manager — Platform Engineering
2021 — 2024
Drove platform, security, and infrastructure programs serving every Dropbox engineer and customer. Anchored multi-quarter initiatives across security, identity, and core platform.
Pure Storage
Technical Program Manager — FlashBlade NPI
2018 — 2021
Owned New Product Introduction (NPI) for FlashBlade — Pure's scale-out unstructured-data platform — coordinating hardware, firmware, software, manufacturing, and global commercial launch.
Cisco
Technical Program Manager — Data Center Switching
2015 — 2018
Released NX-OS software trains for Cisco's data-center switching portfolio (Nexus). Owned end-to-end release management across feature teams, QA, sustaining, and customer escalations.
Apple
Program Manager — AppleCare Voice / IVR Platform
2013 — 2015
Program-managed the global voice and IVR platform powering AppleCare contact centers worldwide.
Let's talk.
I'm open to Senior and Staff TPM roles in AI, platform, and infrastructure. The fastest way to reach me is email.