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Saju Pillai

Saju Pillai is a seasoned engineering executive experienced in building teams and products from the ground up at both startups and global corporations. He worked as a principal engineer at Oracle Corp programming HTTP servers and Fusion Middleware tech. He then went on to build and successfully exit a startup in the RBA space. Before joining Kong, Saju most recently built Concur’s core platform as the company’s VP of engineering and later ran Concur’s R&D and Infrastructure Operations as CTO and SVP of engineering. He currently lives near Seattle with his wife, twin boys and a puppy.

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