A global engineering practice, built for outcomes.
For more than 25 years, SAN Data Systems has helped enterprises modernize, secure, and scale the systems their businesses depend on.
Three decades in the room where systems get built.
SAN Data Systems was founded on a simple premise: enterprises deserve engineering partners who stay. We've spent more than 25 years embedded with our customers' platform teams — from the first migration off the mainframe to the first agentic workload in production.
Today our 200+ engineers operate across eight countries, with deep practices in hybrid cloud, AI infrastructure, and managed enterprise services. We are vendor-neutral by design and outcome-driven by habit.
The people behind the practice.
Operators who've shipped enterprise systems for the last three decades — and who still write code.
Nirmal Kakkar, P.Eng
Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Founded SAN Data Systems in 2013 to build the engineering practice he wished existed. Deep enterprise storage and infrastructure leadership across Sun Microsystems, StorageTek, and Hitachi Data Systems — now applied to hybrid cloud and AI platforms at customer scale.
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Jai Kakkar
Chief Technology Officer
Leads SAN Data Systems' transformation from a traditional infrastructure provider into a modern cloud, AI/ML, and platform-engineering practice. Deep operator background across hybrid cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP, on-prem), Kubernetes, DevSecOps, and applied ML.
LinkedIn profileNine offices. One operating cadence.
Our follow-the-sun teams in the Americas, Asia, and India deliver continuous engineering and 24/7 managed operations.