Rohan Kumar Takes on Expanded Role as President & Chief Platform and Engineering Officer at Salesforce

Salesforce has expanded Rohan Kumar’s leadership mandate to include the company’s global engineering organization, naming him President & Chief Platform and Engineering Officer just over two months after he joined the company.

The expanded role places Rohan at the center of Salesforce’s platform and engineering strategy as the company navigates what he describes as one of the most significant platform transitions in the enterprise software industry, driven by artificial intelligence.

Rohan shared the development on LinkedIn, thanking Salesforce Chair and CEO Marc Benioff for his trust and acknowledging Srini Tallapragada, who previously led Salesforce Engineering for more than 14 years.

Expanding Leadership Across Platform and Engineering

In his expanded role, Rohan will lead Salesforce’s global engineering organization while continuing to shape the company's platform strategy.

His appointment comes at a pivotal point for Salesforce as enterprises move from experimenting with AI to embedding AI and agents more deeply into business workflows and technology platforms.

Rohan's mandate puts engineering execution, platform development and AI transformation under a broader leadership framework as Salesforce works to evolve the technology foundation supporting its global customer base.

A Listening-First Start at Salesforce

Rohan joined Salesforce only a little over two months ago, but has already spent considerable time engaging with customers, employees and technology leaders across the company's global organization.

His early months have included visits to San Francisco, Geneva, Munich, Zurich, London, Hyderabad, Bengaluru and Hawaii, where he met with customers and Salesforce's product and engineering teams.

He also highlighted Salesforce's Laulima gathering as an important opportunity to bring together many of those conversations, share his early perspectives and listen to the organization's teams.

That listening tour has reinforced his view of the depth of Salesforce's engineering talent and the importance of maintaining a close connection with customers as the company enters its next phase of platform development.

Leading Through an AI Platform Transition

Rohan's expanded role comes as Salesforce positions AI as a fundamental shift in how enterprise software platforms are built and used.

He has previously described AI as the most important platform transition of the current era and believes Salesforce is well positioned to play a leading role in that transition.

His early conversations with customers have also helped sharpen his understanding of what enterprises expect as they adopt AI and agentic technologies across critical business operations.

The challenge now is translating those insights into platform and engineering priorities that can deliver reliability, scale and meaningful value for Salesforce customers.

Building the Next Chapter

Rohan succeeds Srini Tallapragada in taking leadership of Salesforce Engineering. During his more than 14 years with the company, Srini played a significant role in building and scaling the engineering organization behind Salesforce's enterprise platform.

For Rohan, the expanded mandate represents a significant acceleration of his leadership journey at Salesforce and places him at the heart of the company's technology strategy at a defining moment for enterprise AI.

As Salesforce continues building toward an AI-driven platform future, his focus will be on bringing together engineering talent, platform innovation and customer priorities to help shape what comes next.

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